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Wishing all our team, clients and connections a Happy New Year🎊 Here's to an exciting 2025 filled with innovation, new opportunities and continued success!

Wishing all of our team, clients, and connections a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! As always, thank you for your continued support and we hope you have an enjoyable break. ✨

Sharp Wrapped 2024🏆 As 2024 comes to an end, we are reflecting on what a successful year we've had. From new office spaces and sales graduates to award success and new services, we've wrapped up our 2024. Take a look at our standout moments ➡️https://bit.ly/3ZAhyGO

Christmas, a time for loved ones, food, carols and extra opportunities for cybercriminals. With Christmas only a week away, we have come up with some helpful tips on having a cyber-safe Christmas: 🚨Notification Fatigue Receiving so many notifications can cause decision fatigue, Cybercriminals take advantage of this by repeatedly spamming you for access to an account. 💳Gift Card Scams Gift card purchases cannot be tracked. If cybercriminals gain access to your money, there is no way to get it back. Only purchase and use gift cards with the authorised retailer. 👪Spending time with loved ones Cybercriminals will offer too-good-to-be-true fake holiday packages and flight deals to gain access to your credit card, especially in the holidays. Be aware of these deals and purchase them only from authorised retailers. 📩More Emails, More Problems Keep an eye out for fake vouchers, unbelievable promotional deals, or even fake delivery notices sent by cybercriminals. Always remember to stop, look and think before clicking on links to avoid being caught out. 

"Deepfake AI will become a key weapon for cyber criminals in 2025, thanks to tools becoming cheaper and more accessible". Matt Riley, Data Protection and Information Security Officer at Sharp UK and Sharp Europe has been featured in Verdict, in an article on 2025 enterprise AI trends. In it he discusses: - Deepfake AI becoming a key weapon for cyber criminals and - Why we are likely to see a rise in breaches - What business can do to protect themselves Read the full article here ➡️https://bit.ly/4gAEoVQ

Unfortunately, there were no wins for us at this year's Education Today Awards which took place on Friday 6th in London. However, our team had a great evening meeting new people and seeing some old faces. Congratulations to all of the winners and our fellow nominees! 🏆👏

"It's taken me longer to give feedback" With an average call answer time of 7.4 seconds in November, we have received some fabulous feedback. Well done to our Service and Engineer teams who go above and beyond to help our clients everyday! Keep watching to see more of our amazing feedback ⬇️

We've kicked off the festivities at our offices this week!🎄🎁 Our Take a Break sessions were all Christmas themed and we invited our teams to wear Christmas jumpers and take a break away from their desks to enjoy the festivities. We had decorations going up, bake offs taking place and Christmas songs going throughout the day to get us in the Christmas spirit 🎅☃️ Take a look at some of the action ⬇️

Sharp Europe recently announced the acquisition of Apsia a French based company specialising in digital transformation and cloud integration. This strategic investment strengthens Sharp’s position as an IT services business across Europe, following significant investments in the UK and Switzerland over the last few years and strong organic growth. Continue reading here - https://bit.ly/41oehNm

Simon Jefferies, Director of Technology at Sharp UK, explains how AI can help thwart evolving impersonation attacks in a new article for Data Centre Review ➡️https://bit.ly/3Vx1qVb Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly intelligent with their use of technology. Deepfake technology is now enabling them to become more sophisticated, launching scams and impersonation attacks on organisations and their people. Find out more about deepfake technology and its evolution in the article linked above!