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Hey Everyone! Welcome back to this week's final blog! I will really miss interacting with all of you each week😓 Cybersecurity is crucial for every single business no matter how big or small. We discussed the importance of it in class as we have seen the effects of a cyber-attack in college over the last week and it’s not fun let me tell you. Whether you are thinking of adopting cloud computing or just using email and maintaining a website, cybersecurity should be a key factor in the implementation and future plan. See the five tips below to minimise the risk of your small business being targeted by a cyber-attack.     1.      Implement a cyber security awareness training programme   – these programmes are specifically designed to educate and train employees on how to avoid making common mistakes that can result in a cybersecurity incident.   2.      Enable and enforce multi-factor authentication   – enabling this pro...

Hey everyone, welcome back to this week’s blog! How is everyone? Is anyone excited for Christmas? I am counting down the hours 🎅 . This week’s topics is very interesting if I do say so myself  . This week we are going to talk about search engine optimisation for small businesses and how this can be used to compete with big brands online. We spoke about it in a recent lecture and I found it fascinating!   Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)...  what is it? It is the process of improving your website to increase visitors from Google, Microsoft Bing and other search engines, whenever people search for: ·        Products you sell ·        Services you provide ·        Information of topics in which you have expertise or experience   A small business needs to utilise this as much as they can to be able to compete with big brands online. There are a  number of ways small businesses can...

                                                                           Hello everyone! Welcome back to this week’s blog!    Apologies, I missed last week I took a short break but weekly blogs are resuming from today! This week’s topic is about the evolution of Internet technologies, specifically from Web 1.0 to 3.0. I think you can all agree that there has been a major evolution of internet technologies over the last two decades. The World Wide Web is the key tool used by billions of people to distribute information, read and create it, and connect with others over the internet. The web is often classified into three stages: Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0   Web 1.0 Web 1.0 was the very first version of the internet. The majority of participants wer...