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May update: Zero Trust
Why you should incorporate a Zero Trust policy
According to the UK office for national statistics, half of UK businesses experienced some form of cyber security breach in the last 12 months.
Most of them have no cyber protection. When your company’s offices are located in almost every employee’s home, maintaining security becomes a growing concern and calls for a progressive security strategy.
What is Zero Trust?
Zero Trust is a strategic framework that organisations should work towards to enhance security and reduce the risk of breaches. It treats every user and device as a potential threat, requiring verification at every step rather than assuming everything inside the network is safe.
Why? Zero Trust
Modern businesses require a flexible security model that works for the complexities of an ever-changing workplace, without hindering productivity. Verifying every user, this framework ensures an organisation's resources and data are kept secure. Embrace your hybrid workforce.
Protect your employees, data, and commercial bottom line.
"Zero Trust is a journey, not a product and anyone looking to go on that journey should align themselves to the NIST 800-207 framework."
Dominic Ryles, Director of Sales and Commercial | Exertis Cybersecurity
The 3 key principles of Zero Trust
The 3 stages of implementing Zero Trust and how we can help:
Continuous verification
Constantly verifying access of all users within the network.
Limiting the blast radius
Minimising the impact if an external resource or insider breach does occur.
Automate content collection and response
Incorporating behavioural data, considering parameters such as user identity, device, location, and type of content.
Visualisation
Understand all of the resources, their access points and and visualise the risks involved.
Mitigation
Detect and stop threats or mitigate the impact of the breach in case a threat cannot be immediately stopped.
Optimisation
Extend protection to every aspect of the IT infrastructure and all resources regardless of location while optimising the end user experience.
If you are interested in learning more about adopting a Zero Trust strategy, get in touch with our cybersecurity team.
April update: Microsoft Copilot - the AI tool for business
At Exertis, we’re always on the lookout for innovative solutions that can improve productivity, creativity and efficiency. That’s why our team have been getting to grips with Microsoft Copilot.
The integration of CoPilot into various Microsoft 365 applications represents a shift in how businesses can utilise generative AI to improve their productivity, creativity and efficiency.
5 hours
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Save 6 hours per PowerPoint presentation
Maximise Excel
without extensive training courses
Ben Voce, Modern Workplace Specialist from the Exertis Cloud team, shared his feedback highlighting some key benefits:
Save time and improve productivity, using Copilot to provide information, summaries, and suggestions from chat messages, emails, and files. The AI tool can also summarise key discussion points and suggest action items, all in real time during a meeting.
What to consider:
The circular economy aims to promote a more sustainable model of production, with a goal to minimise resource depletion, reduce the environmental impact, and maximise the product lifecycle.
Prompt engineering
Effective use of Copilot heavily relies on how queries are phrased. Employees may need to develop prompt-crafting techniques.
Copilot security
Ensuring access control management is essential when integrating Copilot to ensure only authorised users can leverage its capabilities.
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Find out more about Microsoft Copilot at this Windows 11 webinar, taking place on Thursday, 18th April, from 10am to 10.30am.
March update: Ambitions & Operational Excellence
Building partnerships, driving progress.
Our ambitions for FY25
As we gear up for the upcoming financial year, we're excited to share with you our ambitious plans to drive both your business and ours forward. As a member of the DCC family, we’re proud to be part of an organisation which is 16,000 strong, has been listed on the FTSE 100 index since 1994, and has footprint in 22 countries. Our 4,200 employees across 22 countries are what makes us Exertis! We enable people and businesses to grow and progress. Discover insights from our senior leaders below, outlining their expectations for the upcoming financial year.
'The year ahead will see the AI movement build momentum and drive the long-awaited infrastructure refresh cycle. Our industry always has significant inflection points... constantly refreshing itself and shifting right. The next of these is nearly upon us!'.
Tim Griffin | CEO of Exertis IT
'I look ahead to 2024 with such optimism because of the greater strength of Commercial execution we display as a business. Armed with an array of tools based on better data, our teams are consistently making more informed decisions, leading to improved outcomes'.
Michael Sudlow
Chief Financial Officer
'I'm filled with optimism for the year ahead, buoyed by the strength and the reach of our Retail Team, under-pinned with strong financials and industry-leading logistics agility along with our advantageous position in the market'.
Michaela DeGale
Director of Retail Transformation
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T'In the year ahead, I'm filled with excitement as our Customer Services team continues to drive an excellent service, we are continuing to drive SLAs down and are challenging ourselves on automation. Our success is not solely measured by numbers and metrics, but by the relationships we build, and the support we provide to each other and our customers.'
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Sales Operations Director
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