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Who’s in charge? The need for third party (and internal) admins

We frequently receive requests from clients to grant administrative access to third parties or internal staff. Third parties often need some form of access to manage the application they are responsible for, and internal admins sometimes assist with running IT. ABT will generally be hesitant to provide these administrative credentials. Here is why. Ultimately, we sign...

What are Passphrase Passwords?

Whether you are accessing emails on your smartphone or documents on your work PC, you will typically be asked to prove who you are by providing credentials. Passwords can be hard to remember but then again, a password that lacks complexity can quickly become a weak gateway allowing an unauthorized person to read your emails...

How can we help protect you?

The security landscape continually changes. New vulnerabilities and threats are discovered all the time. It is important for you to know that you can rely on ABT to protect you as well as possible. It is a little bit like protecting your home. 100% guaranteed security is impossible, but if you take all the recommended precautions...

Data Security Breaches – What you need to know

Almost immediately after clients started to work from home the number of data breaches increased. Our Information Security team, led by security specialists such as Jarred Jenkins and Damien Coultis, will pick up new cases of unlawful access to data, file encryption attacks and breached security perimeters almost daily. Typically, our engineers will first assess the...

How Microsoft 365 Business can help improve your business.

Welcome to our blog on the recent addition to the Microsoft skus - Microsoft 365 Business. Today we're going to help our clients by talking about the product, some of the note-worthy features that are included, as well as hopefully giving you some insight into where they can help improve your business. The first thing we...

Windows Patching Q & A

Q: On my invoice I now see Managed Server Patching. What is that? Alliance Business Technologies manages the installation of Microsoft updates on your servers and workstations. Microsoft updates are important patches to your operating systems. They ensure stability and safety and keep your IT secure. Systems that are not updated are vulnerable to attacks and...

Alliance Business Technologies is Proud to Announce…

ABTechnologies is proud to announce that in May this year we have been awarded two ‘Top Performing Partners for 2018’ awards. ‘Cloud Market Place Partner of the Year’ for Australia at the 2018 Cloud Summit in Florida, USA, and ‘Growth Partner of the Year’ as well as ‘Technical Excellence’ at the Barracuda Networks Awards. Our Operations Manager,...