Ensuring Security Compliance With Akita

Understanding PCI scanning

If you take card payments, you’ll need to understand and comply with PCI DSS regulations. All organisations that take card payments will be aware of the standard, but few are actually familiar with the direct guidelines.

Ensuring all processes and systems align with the guidelines is key to avoid costly penalty fines for non-compliance but isn’t always easy to verify alone. Aside from mere compliance, PCI DSS is critical for identifying vulnerabilities and potential breaches in your systems and can be a key safeguard for sensitive payment data.

Find out more about PCI DSS Compliance services

Business Application Support Hours To Use As You Need

We understand the importance of flexibility in managing your business applications. That's why we offer our customers the freedom to use their contracted support hours wherever they need them most.

Whether it's focusing on SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Business Central, or Power Platform, contracted support hours can be allocated wherever they’re needed most.

This initiative aims to make our service as cost-effective as possible while supporting innovation and development. Find out more about our support

The Dynamics 365 Pricing Update

Effective on the 1st?of October 2024, Microsoft will implement a price increase for several Dynamics 365 products, marking the first adjustment in over five years. This change reflects significant innovations in the platform, including AI integration, a unified interface, and enhanced security features.

Key products such as Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise and Finance will see price increases ranging from $10 to $30 per license. Current customers will maintain their existing rates until their next renewal.

For more detailed information and insights on how this might affect your services, read more on our website

Microsoft Forced MFA Implementation

Microsoft has begun the forced implementation of multi-factor authentication (MFA) for cloud tenants. The aim of this initiative is to protect all users from potential security breaches that originate from compromised passwords.

Microsoft has chosen to do this after so many organisations got compromised when a simple, cost-effective MFA solution would have given them more than enough protection.

Find out more about how MFA provides additional protection and how to get started with an implementation from Akita

Upcoming New Cyber Security Legislation:

The Cyber Security And Resilience Bill

The UK Government is rolling out this new legislation to strengthen defences for all UK organisations again increasing complex and frequent cyber threats.

This aims to close existing security gaps that are currently leaving organisations vulnerable, empower them to take security measures more seriously and also enforce stricter reporting requirements. As a whole, this will help to keep UK businesses resilient in an increasingly hostile cyber environment.

If you’d like to understand how this could affect your organisation and what steps you need to take, read our recent blog to get the views of our cyber security experts