The following whitepapers and research documents are available to download.

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Acceptable Usage Policy

Acceptable usage policy: A guide for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

A Guide to IT Compliance

Provides a practical guide to help you understand current statutory legislation. The guide highlights risk areas for IT and includes a checklist on how to become compliant.

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Business Continuity

Ensuring your business can operate in the event of a disaster.

Challenging Traditional Organisational Culture

Remote working has become a mainstream work style that is practiced both in an ad hoc and formalised manner in the UK. As a result, many organisations that adopt the ad hoc approach fail to provide the policies, processes, infrastructure and management practices necessary to realise the full operational and financial benefits of remote working initiatives.

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Compelling Case for Total Email Security

A MessageLabs white paper that examines the subject of email security and the areas of risk that can pose a threat to corporate integrity.

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Data Backup

Data Backup: Protecting your most valuable asset.

Email Archiving - the Implications for Business

The use of business email has grown exponentially over a relatively short period of time,bringing with it the huge advantages of worldwide, cost-effective, easy and nearinstantaneous communication. But as all those involved in the management of IT systems know, the growth in email usage has brought its own challenges.

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ePolicy Best Practice

Through the implementation of clearly written Acceptable Usage Policies, employers in the UK can maximize employee compliance while minimising the likelihood of litigation, regulatory investigations, security breaches, malicious intruders, and other electronic disasters.

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Evolving Email and Web Threats and how to Manage Them

Email and web lie at the heart of today's business environment. But it's no commercial secret that viruses, spam, spyware and so on can hit small businesses hard - whatever sector they're in. And it's not just other companies that are a target. It's you. It's now.

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Increasing Billable Hours

IT is critical in today's world of business. As organisations continue to grow, the reliance on IT and the importance placed on maintianing it is often unbalanced. In-house IT technicians are usually occupied with maintaining and managing the day-to-day issues that arise with computing. This paper looks at the advantages and implications of secure hosting and the benefits that a well-managed, unified network can provide.

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Managed Perimeter Security Issue Paper

In today's environment it is easy to get caught up with the hype around security without taking an objective view on the situation.

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Maximising IT Efficiency & Control Within the Public Sector

Within local Government IT departments pressures come from a multitude of different directions and budgets and resource are constrained, making it increasingly difficult to prioritise and deliver against these requirements.  This issues paper helps unravel the complex issues and offers a solution.

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MPLS

An advanced and affordable private network solution

Network Security

Network security: A guide for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

Online Social Networking

The Employers' Dilemma

Practical Measures for Combating Spam

A practical do's and don'ts guide to spam.

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Recognising the business value of IT - a Yankee report

The biggest IT headache for UK companies has nothing to do with technology: it's lack of time. Three quarters of the UK's mid-sized companies devote little or no attention to building an IT strategy.  Instead, internal IT staff are locked into a vicious cycle of fire fighting and routing administrative tasks that they can't break out of.

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Remote access

Remote access: Three steps to getting connected.

Small Business Spector of Spam

Electronic junk mail. Spam. It's become a familiar feature of the email landscape. So it's easy to forget the damage it does to a small business. It's not simply a nuisance. The stark reality is that defending against and dealing with spam represents an unwelcome cost to your organisation. Spam erodes business efficiency. It pushes down productivity. It eats away at profit.

Social Networking

A look at the implications for business.

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Taming the Internet

It is increasingly likely that the internet is used by small and growing companies as a main driver for business. Whether it is a website, access to email or customer portal, the internet has become a utility for many businesses, and is just as important as water, gas and electricity. When providing you with water, your provider must ensure that the water is clean and usuable - Why should that expectation be any different for a connection to the internet?

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Tangled Web

Undercover Threats & Invisible Enemies

Ten Point Guide to Email Security for SMB's

How to equip your organisation with proactive and intelligent defence solutions.

The Legal Risks of Uncontrolled Email Content

Email is a critical business tool to many businesses, however, it can cause severe difficulties to employers if employees' use of email is not controlled adequately.

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