Happy New Year and welcome to our winter IT Security Update. With 2022 now behind us, it’s worth a look back at some of the issues that kept our IT security department busy last year, and then a quick look forward to what we might expect in 2023.

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have been developing and implementing defence tools of their own, in a bid to keep email inboxes safe. However, these developments could cause some issues in the immediate term, as users or email providers lag behind the latest updates.

Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla motor cars and Space X, is behind a relatively new project that is being billed as “the world’s most advanced broadband internet system” and is making waves in the consumer and corporate broadband world.

One of the biggest fears for enterprise network architects is under-provisioning – to leave an organisation with insufficient performance and capacity.

The Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) in Excel is a customisable toolbar containing a set of commands that are independent from the tab that is currently displayed. Learn how you can customise it to display frequently used functions.

Microsoft has officially confirmed that the cloud-based Office suite will soon be no more, with all its applications soon to come under the Microsoft 365 banner.