In many industries, there are seasonal spikes in business around specific times. For example, Accounting firms, though busy all year, generally see a spike in business around the time of the self-assessment deadline, etc., the retail and e-commerce industry sees a boom around the Christmas period, and so on. During such peak times, it is common practice in the industry to employ part-time staff to meet the immediate resource needs. While this works well in terms of costs and for handling additional work/client inflow, this poses a few challenges from the IT perspective. In this blog, we explore those challenges so you know what to watch out for before bringing part-time staff on board.

This year's Liverpool Sportswomen's Lunch was held on 23rd September at Liverpool Football Club's Anfield stadium. The event was hosted by radio presenter Darren Proctor with special guest speaker, Olympic cyclist, Elinor Barker. Held in aid of NSPCC, we eagerly await the results of the charity donations received which are yet to be confirmed.

Liverpool, Merseyside, UK, 8th October 2021 – Aabyss Limited is delighted to announce it has acquired another managed services provider, Yorkshire-based Netcom Technologies Ltd (“Netcom”).

September 2021 marks the first anniversary of our membership of the Ecologi climate positivity initiative. Our headline figures for the year show a 353 tonne reduction in CO2 and over 13,000 trees planted. To put these numbers in perspective this is the equivalent of 271 long haul flights or over 870,000 miles driven in a car. To cap off a successful first year we made the Top 50 Tree Planting leaderboard.

Aabyss are proud to announce they have been nominated for two awards at the annual Network Group Awards. Following on from our success in 2019 receiving two awards, we have again been nominated in two categories; the prestigious Large MSP of the Year and a well deserved individual nomination for our Chief Operating Officer, Troy Midwood, in the Member Contribution category.

A gargantuan cache of data totalling over 200Gb has been exposed on the web, researchers from Comparitech report. Contained within the database were records of 106 million people who travelled into Thailand during the last decade. The database was first discovered on August 22nd 2021 at which point the operator of the database was immediately informed. This rapidly led to the Thai authorities being made aware of the issue.

Workplaces today have changed. They extend beyond the working hours, beyond the office and crucially beyond the hardware which is wholly owned and operated by the company. Whether you are commuting to work or even on annual leave, chances are you or your employees take a break from the break to reply to those important emails that require ‘immediate action’.

Mobile telecoms giant T-Mobile are the latest high profile cyberattack victim with hackers stealing a huge cache of customer data reportedly including US social security number and driving licence information among other key personal details. This breach only affects their USA customers data and UK customers are not currently thought to be at risk.

New pricing for Microsoft 365 Today we are announcing changes to our commercial pricing for Microsoft 365—the first substantive pricing update since we launched Office 365 a decade ago. This updated pricing reflects the increased value we have delivered to our customers over the past 10 years. Let’s take a look at some of the innovations we’ve delivered over the past decade in three key areas—communications and collaboration, security and compliance, and AI and automation—as well as the addition of audio conferencing capabilities that we’re announcing today.

The United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) published its 2020 Global Cyber Security Index on Tuesday 29th June, listing USA in first place, closely followed by the UK and Saudi Arabia in a tie for second place.