Paul O'Brien, Author at Lucidity

New Zealand Travel Brokers Case Study

How Lucidity supported New Zealand Travel Brokers dispersed remote working model through Covid-19.

Power BI – Driving Data Led Decision Making

BlogBy Paul O'Brien May 22, 2020

Businesses that understand the importance of data and base business decisions on that data have a significant advantage over their competitors. One of the primary challenges to getting to this state is how you get this data and make it accessible to decision makers. Microsoft Power BI is a data visualizer. You provide it with…

Keeping vigilant with account security in the modern digital world

BlogBy Paul O'Brien June 18, 2019

We all have a number of accounts online these days; our social media platforms, our email, internet banking, and that weird news site you once signed up to just because they wouldn’t let you read that article about puppies if you didn’t. Each of these accounts have one thing in common – login credentials. The…

How to deal with malicious emails

BlogBy Paul O'Brien April 17, 2019

This is the third blog in our series about malicious emails. You can read the first two blogs, How to identify malicious emails and Is the mail really malicious by clicking on the links. What to do with a suspected malicious email The answer to this is quite simple: delete the email. You can ignore…

Is the mail really malicious?

BlogBy Paul O'Brien April 16, 2019

Following on from yesterdays blog, How to identify malicious emails, today we will look at whether the email is actually malicious and some techniques scammers use to make it seem legitimate. Is the mail really malicious? Please note that you need to weigh all the red flags in yesterday’s blog if you want to rule…

How to identify malicious emails

BlogBy Paul O'Brien April 15, 2019

We all get our share of spam, some more than others. But how do we differentiate between simple commercial spam and the types of emails that are sent with malicious intent. The unsolicited commercial spam email is generally easy to recognise, report, and discard, but what about more dangerous types of spam? How can you…

SQL 2008 / 2008R2 End of support

BlogBy Paul O'Brien March 14, 2019

On July 9th 2019, Microsoft will officially end extended support for the Microsoft SQL 2008 and 2008R2 products. This SQL version was a mainstay of databases for several years, particularly for the Web edition that made SQL more accessible to mainstream developers with its affordable pricing and powerful database engine. What does this mean…

Modern Workplace – Paul O’Brien’s Excited!

BlogBy Paul O'Brien February 27, 2019

My name is Paul O’Brien, and I am the founder of Lucidity. I started this business way back in 2002 as an IT engineer with an idea to use the Internet to deliver applications to users and eradicate onsite servers. We started with delivering Virtual Desktop solutions right back with Citrix v1.0 – we’ve been…

Reflections of a Triage Support Agent

BlogBy Paul O'Brien February 25, 2019

Day one on the front lines of desktop support for Lucidity, I was handed a headset with a smile and a “Good luck” from my new-found team. I gripped my headset tight in the trench anticipating the first call to come flying through. The phone line rings! The ringing echoes in my stomach, churning up…

Network Security with Fortinet Managed by Lucidity

BlogBy Paul O'Brien January 29, 2019

Here at Lucidity, we take network security seriously. The number of threats to your data is increasing daily, you just need to read the news to hear about another innocent person falling victim to digital degenerates, so to protect yourself and your data, you need to invest in good network protection systems. This is where…