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Category: Security

Securing your accounts with Multi-Factor Authentication

We live in a world where our online accounts are becoming increasingly important to our everyday lives. Everything from shopping to job hunting to banking to catching up with friends will usually need some sort of online account. Most of us will access these accounts using our emails and a

Maintaining security in open source code

Information security remains high profile, daily news. One of the negative impacts of the changes coronavirus and lockdown has had on many organisations is what some experts have referred to as a “cyber pandemic.” A report by Teiss discovered that the increase in home workers allowed cyber criminals to exploit

4 ways to work safe, secure and smart at home in the ‘new normal’

After months of quarantine, many of us have made the adjustment to working from home and might now be thinking about how our future work lives will look. A great deal of us now know we will have a much greater focus on working from home. With that in mind,

Lessons I’ve learned as a QA tester

I joined Invotra over two and a half years ago as an apprentice in Invotra’s QA team. When I started it was my first job and my first role as a tester, so it was quite daunting at the time, to say the least. Over the past couple of years,

How Invotra is ensuring quality in project delivery

Invotra provides intranet services on a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) basis. This means that most updates to our product, whether they are new features, improvements or bug fixes, are managed within the context of our bi-weekly release cycle. I previously described our approach to maintaining quality in our releases here. However, some

Single Sign On SOS: One Login to Rule Them All

What is Single Sign On? Single Sign-On (SSO) is an authentication service which lets a user log in to multiple applications and/or websites after only one prior login. Behind the scenes, that successful login is used to prove the user’s identity going forward. Therefore, SSO enables access to countless services

Benefits of moving your intranet to the cloud

In today’s digital age, there are an abundance of reasons why any organisation may want to move to the cloud, with the benefits spreading through all levels of a business. Flexibility: One of the biggest benefits brought by cloud computing is flexibility. Where files and programs used to be stored

Experiments with serverless

Just tech hype? These days serverless computing is all the rage – most cloud providers cater for it one way or another. But what use is it? Is it here to stay or is it going to be another one day wonder? The internet is full of such ideas which

How building a culture of security helps your employees to protect your organisation

Here at Invotra, we are obsessive about security. From our ISO 27001:2013 accreditation to our practice of “Dishing”, the topic of security is ingrained in our culture from the bottom to the top. Every year, Invotra has a company-wide security awareness training session which goes through any developments in our

Invotra Portal – what is it and what makes it secure?

Invotra has launched their own extranet functionality, called ‘Invotra Portal’. It’s a product option to add to your existing Invotra intranet, and it allows you to give intranet access to those important key stakeholders and third-party users who contribute to the successful running of your business. Collaboration within your workforce