The landscape has changed and businesses are now heavily reliant on technology for the day-to-day operations of their business. From the road to your office to your boardroom, technology underpins your interactions with your clients and the performance of your business. At FortiTech we believe in understanding your business first, then providing reliable technology advice, solutions and ongoing technology support with emphasis on ensuring your business is always secure.
It's the smarter choice for your business.
How we make your business smarter
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Audit
Objectively measure your current technology landscape
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Advise
Actionable advice to align technology to business goals
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Integrate
Technology solutions that fit seamlessly with your business
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Maintain
Keeping your technology working reliably day after day
"The team at FortiTech are great to work with. They understand the commercial reality of a business requiring the latest technology to enhance functionality while considering the financial ROI."
Stephen Brake, Meritous Accounting & Advisory
OUR RECENT ARTICLES
Tech Tips: Using Microsoft SharePoint & OneDrive
Last month, we covered a recent client install of SharePoint in conjunction with OneDrive. This month we run through some top tech tips on how to make the most of the file collaboration tool.
Client Install: CCTV as far as the eye can see
Are you looking to protect your premises and also want to check-in live wherever you are? You are not alone, we just completed a CCTV install for a client that is able to do just that, find out how it went in this blog.
How Safe Is Your Technology? Security Vulnerabilities In 2021
Security vulnerabilities aren’t a problem… until they are. Here’s how they work, and how to protect yourself from them.
Client Install: Microsoft SharePoint & OneDrive for Business file sharing
FortiTech recently completed a project implementing SharePoint as a file sharing tool for a migration law firm, allowing them to move off a desktop device they were using as their file server. Find out how the project went in our latest blog.
David Speaks: College of Law Cyber Risk Workshop
David recently participated as part of the panel in an interactive workshop held by The College of Law. The interactive workshop focused on setting up a legal practice and dealing with a cyber-attack. Cyber-crime is still a very real concern for the profession as now, more than ever, practitioners are relying on technology to assist them in the day-to-day operation of their practices – whether in the office or working remotely. You can read more about the tips and highlights for the workshop in this blog.
How to Prevent Business Email Compromise (And Other Things You Should Know About BEC)
With business email compromise, a single email can cost a company millions. Find out how they work… and how to protect your business.
The top 10 things that can go wrong when migrating email from Google to Microsoft 365
One of our recent blogs covered the migration of a clients email from Google to Microsoft 365. Find out the top 10 things that can go wrong when migrating email between platforms in our latest blog.
David Speaks: Security Awareness Training
David recently delivered Security Awareness Training for 2 of our Managed Services Clients. What is Security Awareness Training and how can it help your business? Find out more in our latest blog.....
The most tempting cyber attacks of 2020
2020 brought on a lot of strange things, here is a round up of 3 of the most "tempting" cyber attacks of the year.
Client Install: Migrating from Google to Microsoft 365
We have recently completed some migrations from Google Suite to Microsoft 365 for email and files, find out more about what motivated the moves in our latest blog.
Tech Tips: Microsoft Word
We continue our Tech Tips series this week with some time saving tricks for Microsoft Word.
How To Protect Your Business From Ransomware (The Full Story)
Ransomware is one of the most dangerous cyber threats a business faces. Here’s everything you need to know about it.
Meet our new Tech Sup"paw"t interns
Sleeping on the job was in the position description for our new interns and we found the purr-fect candidates.
David speaks: Incident Response and Insurance
In the final Cyber Security presentation to the College of Law's Legalprenuers Lab members for 2020, David covers off Incident Response and Insurance and what to do when you have had a security incident.
Phishing Attacks: How Scammers Reel You In (And What To Do About It)
Phishing is one of the most common cyber crimes you’re likely to face. What is it, and how to deal with it? It’s all in our latest blog.
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Tech Tips: Microsoft Outlook
Lately, we have been receiving a few queries about Microsoft Outlook and the best ways to make use of its inbuilt features and increase productivity. In this blog, you will find a selection of tips and tricks for keeping on top of you inbox (and calendar!)
David speaks: Email antispam and phishing
It is estimated that spam emails cost businesses up to $30b a year in lost productivity, not to mention that 33% of cyber-attacks originate
from phishing emails. Find out more about how to spot a phishing email and the benefits of a spam filter, including Zero Day virus
protection and quarantine in our latest blog.
Australia’s Cyber Threat Report Card: Cybercrime In The Age Of COVID-19
Despite COVID, cybercrime has remained a constant threat to Australian. Businesses in 2020. Here are the numbers you need to know.
The Top 5 techniques used to hack your password
Passwords are often easy to crack, reused and, in today’s era of biometrics and cryptography, are an outdated way of protecting an account. In this weeks blog find out some of the most common, and most effective, methods for stealing passwords that lead to data breaches.
David Speaks: Turning your staff into Dark Web Defenders
Today David hosted another webinar in conjunction with the College of Law's Centre for Legal Innovation as part of their Cybersecurity series, this time he focused on the Dark Web and Security Awareness Training for your staff. Find out how to turn your staff into Dark Web defenders in our latest blog.
David speaks: Patching & the Internet of Things (IoT)
IoT or the Internet of Things, is all the other computing products that you have when you think of computers, this is a whole raft of things, smart TV’s, Google Home & Alexa, switches, router, blu ray players, printers/scanners, security cameras and even fish tank thermometers. Find out how they can also be the gateway for criminals and how to tighten your security.
David Speaks: Setting your practice up for success
We all want the best productivity from our business, but where do you start? Find out David's tips for setting up your practice (or any organisation) for success by making the right technology choices.
David Speaks: Detecting and Tracking Events or Have You Been Hacked?
August brings another important webinar on Cyber Security and with that, David was joined by Matthew See, WatchGuard’s Manager of Sales Engineering – APAC, to discuss detecting and tracking events such as hacking through Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) software.
Notifiable Data Breach report to June 2020
The Notifiable Data Breach stats are out for the first half of 2020, find out which industries are topping the list in our latest blog.
Free guide: Small Business Cyber Security
As a partner of the Australian Cyber Security Centre, FortiTech is proud to present this guide, which has been developed to help small businesses protect themselves from the most common cyber security incidents.
Client Install : We're going NUC's
Small but mighty, Intel's NUC packs a whole lot of power into a small device and is a great alternative to a bulky desktop PC.
What to look for in a Cyber Insurance policy
No company is immune from a cyber attack. In this week's blog we look at the must haves in a Cyber Insurance policy and some real life claims examples
David speaks: Firewalls and next gen antivirus
Fortitech continues to spread the word about the importance of Cyber Security and with that, David was joined by Matthew See, WatchGuard’s Manager of Sales Engineering – APAC, hosting a webinar in conjunction with the College of Law's Centre for Legal Innovation, focusing on Firewalls and next generation antivirus
David Speaks: Business Continuity and Backup
Today, David was joined by Matthew See, WatchGuard’s Manager of Sales Engineering – APAC, hosting a webinar in conjunction with the QLD College of Law's Centre for Legal Innovation, focusing on Business Continuity and Backup.
Client Install: Manufacturing gets a makeover
Out with the old and in with the new as our manufacturing client takes a digital leap with their scheduling tools
Client Install: 170 seat 3CX VoIP Phone System across 3 sites
Our 3CX VoIP phone systems have been popular lately, find out about our recent installation of a 170 seat system in a legal firm.
David speaks: Protecting data for remote users
Today, David was joined by Matthew See, WatchGuard’s Manager of Sales Engineering – APAC, hosting a webinar in conjunction with the QLD College of Law's Centre for Legal Innovation, focusing on protecting data for remote users.
Free 32-page Guide: How to Secure Microsoft 365
Download our FREE guide today on how to secure Microsoft 365, formally Office 365
Client install: Dual Monitors and Dock for Chromebook
Over the years we have seen an increase of mobile devices such as laptops being used as the primary device for many businesses find out how you can make them even more useful in our current blog.
David Speaks: Passwords and Multifactor Authentication
Today, David was joined by Matthew See, WatchGuard’s Manager of Sales Engineering – APAC, hosting a webinar in conjunction with the QLD College of Law's Centre for Legal Innovation, focusing on Passwords and Multifactor Authentication.
How to connect your work desktop PC to the Internet at home
With the unprecedented upheaval of the COVID-19 we have had a number of clients who have quite literally had to ask their staff to take their desktop PC’s and monitors from the office and work from home. Being desktops rather than laptops, this has presented some challenges, as unlike laptops, desktop PCs aren’t designed to be moved around and are often not equipped with wireless adapters, so how can they connect to the internet? Find out in our latest blog.
Free Template: Pandemic Action Plan
FortiTech has released the first in our series of free policy templates for businesses, jump onto our latest blog to download it.
What is the Dark Web?
You may have heard the term the Dark Web bandied about a lot in recent years, but what is it exactly?
David Speaks: Security Assessments & Technology Policy
This week David hosted a webinar with the College of Law's Centre for Legal Innovation focussing on Security Assessments and Technology Policy.
David speaks: Centre for Legal Innovation Cyber Security Panel
Can we ever really be cyber secure was the question, in short the answer is no, but as the audience of Monday's Centre for Legal Innovation discussion found out, there are certainly ways to manage cyber risk, find out the key takeaways in our latest blog.
Tech Tip: How to upload staff photos in bulk to Office 365
Do you work in a large organisation, or just like the idea of putting a face to a name when you send an email? Then we just might have the solution for you in this week's blog.
Can we ever really be cyber secure?
Can we ever really be cyber secure? It's THE question of our time so it's something every law firm/legal department should be concerned about, right? Join us on Monday 10 February to find out
Client Install: 3CX VoIP
It wasn’t all baked ham and pavlova in the FortiTech office over Christmas / New Year, but it sure did help fuel us through the two VoIP system installs that we undertook during the break.
December FortiTech Newsletter
The end of 2019 is fast approaching and now is the time to order any new hardware to ensure it is installed before the end of the year (one less thing on your 2020 to do list!).
Client Install: Apple Mac
Not only do we support Windows based products, but as you can see from our latest client install Apple products are supported too.
Client Install: WatchGuard M270 Firewall
FortiTech recently completed the installation of a WatchGuard M270 Firewall at one of our education clients.
Out and About: College of Law Queensland
The End of Year function season is definitely upon us. We attended our first one for 2019 this week.
Are you taking a gamble on your business? Why Cyber Insurance is a must have
Whilst you may have had a flutter and won this week, the one thing we are sure you never want to gamble on is your business’ ability to recover from a cyber-attack.
Out and About: Connect Collaborative
David recently attended a Connect Collaborative Business Event in Brisbane.
Dirty Deeds, done (not) dirt cheap
Hackers know password from your account. Password must be changed now. - The email subject is daunting enough, check out the contents in our latest blog.....