blueAPACHE celebrates family day
Last weekend, blueAPACHE hosted our annual family day in the Mornington Peninsula. Every year in February, staff along with family, are invited to the home of blueAPACHE Managing Director, Chris Marshall for a casual, relaxed afternoon of family friendly festivities....
Technology solutions for business challenges – SIP calls over internet
How does placing SIP calls over the internet affect its quality? In order to answer this, we must first understand how SIP trunking works. With SIP trunks (Session Initiation Protocol or IP based phone and messaging), voice is first converted into IP packets. These IP...
Fraud Barometer: Fraud in Australia is on the rise
Insider jobs and technology enabled fraud are the two alarming trends in Australian fraud, as reported by KPMG in their six-monthly fraud barometer. According to the Fraud Barometer recently released by KPMG, between April to September 2016, 143 frauds occurred in...
Gartner’s Top 10 Technology Trends for 2017
Gartner’s top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 focus on three key areas - intelligence everywhere, the digital world and the new intelligent digital mesh. Intelligent 1. AI and Advanced Machine Learning The techniques for machines learning will move beyond...
Keeping up with the changing ransomware landscape
Ransomware is big business. The FBI estimated that in 2016 alone cybercriminals extorted nearly $US1 billion from ransomware payoffs. An unsurprising fact considering more than 70% of businesses impacted by ransomware have admitted to paying ransom so as to regain...
Mirai botnet and the IoT security challenge
Late last year, a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) against Dyn, a company that controls much of the internet’s domain name system (DNS) infrastructure, caused disruption to online services worldwide. With millions of users unable to access major websites...
Top six blogs of 2016
The recurring theme that dominated the year gone by was that of Cybersecurity. Time and again, we were reminded of not just the endless possibilities and inventiveness of an attack, but also of its ability to bring down entire organisations. Be it PayPal or SWIFT,...
Thank You
As this year draws to a close, we want to acknowledge and thank all those who have helped shape our business making 2016 a great year for blueAPACHE. 2016 saw us focus on continued investment in our infrastructure, services and processes. We expanded our operations in...
blueAPACHE 2016 end of year celebrations
Another year has gone by and with December comes the time to celebrate our efforts, our achievements and our successes. 2016 has been a great year for blueAPACHE. We have expanded our presence in New South Wales and Queensland, strengthened our relationship with our...