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Has the cloud changed how we update our hardware? It's a great question that we're asked. People seem to think that because all their data is in the cloud, they don't need to upgrade their computers and they can just use the cheapest, dirtiest piece of thing that they've ever seen. The truth is you can't. If anything, it needs to be more powerful than before and the reason is with all your stuff in a traditional sense, when there was a server that was hyper-powered super duper and it allowed for any of the things that needed to be done, that is where the processing house was and then what would happen is the data would shoot through to your computer and your computer would just be a display for it really. So it didn't need to be that powerful.

I'm on Fossil Walk in Badlands Park. It's a pretty cool name, and this place is famous for its fossils, particularly mammals, which we've found lots of ancient pigs, rhinos, horses, rabbits, rodents, and plenty of others. I find it amazing that this piece of history can be preserved like this for millions of years.

In this episode, Alex Penrose from Jolly Frogs tells us about pen testing, reverse engineering, the Internet of Things (IoT), risk profile and risk appetite statement of organisations, social engineering, the two departments in organisations that hackers take advantage of to get information, botnets and vulnerabilities, should you or should you not run automatic updates, backups and disaster recovery, the cloud, password databases and alternative like using passwords that are hard to crack but easy to remember, two-factor authentication, and other security dos and dont's.

Why Is IT Support Necessary for Businesses?

No matter how big or small your Brisbane business is, you need to make sure you can get IT support whenever you need it. IT problems can come up anytime. Through reliable IT help, you can rest assured that your business can prevent or get rid of safety, security and continuity issues right away to ensure your productivity and profitability.