K-12 Uncategorized The Impact of BYOD on Data Security in Schools August 4, 2014 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter Schools are now more than ever before in possession of a huge amount of personal and sensitive data about both staff and students. This can include data such as exam results or private medical information. Therefore, the importance of securing this data within school IT systems goes without saying; it becomes increasingly critical because many […] Read more » BYOD edtech education higher ed k-12 online security schools security security education staff
Security Uncategorized The Importance of Password Management for SME’s July 28, 2014 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter In a business environment that is dynamic, constantly evolving and ladled with threats, it is important to ensure all data is kept secure through using some form of password management. Recent, market research has stated that over the next 4-5 years, this requirement for password management is only set to increase because the need to […] Read more » online security password password management password policy password self service security
Security Security and Staff – What’s the Connection? July 24, 2014 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter In a business environment where security is paramount, online security is so very important. In generations before now, the only real worry about online security was virus infections, however now we’re having to face a plethora of issues including phishing, identity theft, spyware and the list goes on. Additionally, we have to think about internal […] Read more » online security password security security education staff
K-12 Password-Self-Service Considerations for cloud in education July 14, 2014 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter In recent years migrating to the cloud has become a common action for many educational establishments. When looking to migrate partial or entire on-premise services, it is important to ensure the transition is smooth, however this is not always the case. This often results in an increased load on the help desk and IT department. […] Read more » Active directory edtech k-12 password password self service schools
Password-Self-Service How does Password Self-Service help to take the pressure off the Help Desk Team? June 19, 2014 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter IT departments are under continued pressure from the business as a whole because approximately 50% of all IT help desk enquiries tend to be about password reset or unlocking of an account. Naturally, this creates a huge amount of unnecessary pressure on IT staff, having to deal with such a mundane issue that in theory […] Read more »
Tech Alert Known Issue: VMWare Updates esx-base (2072653) April 14, 2014 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter Affected Product Nervepoint Access Manager installs taken from our prebuilt VMs OVA and OVF formats VMware released patch 2072653 on February 27th 2014 for ESXi 5.1 which updates esx-base VIB to resolve the issue where virtual machines using the E1000/E1000E adapter might lose network connectivity. Currently anyone running Nervepoint Access Manager installed from one of our VMs will […] Read more »
Security Uncategorized Heartbleed Bug Questions Answered April 10, 2014 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter Google Security and Codenomicon revealed on Monday that a flaw had existed in OpenSSL for more than two years that could be used to allow anyone (they would have to know the vulnerability existed and be proficient with SSL and network security) on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the […] Read more » heartbleed
Feature Password-Self-Service Releases Identity Management Pre-Release 3 February 13, 2014 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter We are pleased to announce that the third public release of our 1.2 beta stream is now available. If you have a valid 1.1 license you can use this and run it alongside your 1.1 deployment to preview the new features if not you can still download the 1.2 BETA and evaluate it fully for […] Read more »
News Releases New Release Nervepoint Access Manager 1.1 R15 February 3, 2014 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter We are pleased to announce the release of Access Manager 1.1 R15 this week, R15 provides new options that allow for email notifications and outgoing emails from Access Manager to be sent to specified email addresses for administration, and additional options to manage the rate at which emails are sent from the Access Manger. In […] Read more »
Releases New Release 1.1 R14 January 14, 2014 / September 2, 2025 by Lee Painter We are pleased to announce the release of Access Manager 1.1 R14 this week, the new R14 provides a number of bug fixes and a few new options to improve the behaviour of certain actions and users attempting to access their accounts. Improving Login Feedback We’ve added some options that can be enabled to […] Read more »