Does this 1981 study provide the background to why IT Professionals, with an expert knowledge of cyber threats, still frequently become the victims of cyber attacks? In 1981, the Sedish psychologist Ola Svenson was researching people’s assessment of their own individual abilities. There had been speculation amongst the psychological community for some time that, actually,…
Carbon Cloud were delighted to sponsor the Fletching Arrows Kit Car team that competed in the Uckfield Mini Grand Prix on Sunday. The Mini Grand Prix is contested between 22 teams from Primary Schools across Sussex and the Kit Car Project is designed to give Key Stage 2 pupils a practical challenge for their STEM…
Carbon Cloud are delighted to announce the formalisation of their strategic partnership with ACS Consulting. This follows an extended period of the two organisations working together to bring transformational technology services to the Financial Services and Banking sectors. The first joint technology proposition launched to the market is designed to help enterprises overcome the challenges…
Next-Gen Cyber Security Whilst there is already a crippling skills shortage in cyber-security, (ISC)² has predicted that this will grow to 350,000 vacancies in 2022. Today’s enterprises need to find new ways of dealing with cyber threats. It is clear that it will be difficult, if not impossible to fix this problem by throwing more…
Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop Logon Slow or Delay – Please Wait for the User Profile Service Applies to:- Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016 Citrix XenApp 6.5, 7.x Citrix UPM Roaming Profiles Folder Redirections or Remote Home Directory The Problem When you log on to a Published Desktop, there is a delay while…
Free SSL Certificates! | SSL Certificates for Free! For more than the last decade, I’ve been heavily involved in the process to validate and issue SSL Certificates, the evolution to more robust encryption methods and the general world-shift to using HTTPS as a default for all Web based communications. The Story so Far We’ve all…
Recently we completed a project for a large not-for-profit client who has circa 50 x offices and over 350 staff, many working in highly-regulated and/or secure environments where gaining remote access to corporate services has been notoriously difficult. Our client initially was inving a Direct Access solution, however, after discussion with Carbon around Microsoft’s roadmap,…
Recently we completed a project for a large not-for-profit client who has circa 50 x offices and over 350 staff, many working in highly-regulated and/or secure environments where gaining remote access to corporate services has been notoriously difficult. Our client initially was inving a Direct Access solution, however, after discussion with Carbon around Microsoft’s roadmap,…
GDPR is coming, and if you process personal data, it will affect you regardless of the size of your business . This means that there are a number of areas that you need to have checked and documented before the 25th May 2018. So what is the GDPR? It’s pretty hard to avoid news articles…
Since December last year, Carbon have been privileged to be part of the Microsoft Azure Files Backup technical preview designed to help Microsoft test and improve this service. As a result of ours and many others efforts, Microsoft have announced that this is now in full Public Preview – available for clients who have an…