--- title: The Coeo Blog | Matt O'Grady description: Matt is a Data Platform Specialist on Coeo’s Dedicated Support team. --- [![](https://www.coeo.com/wp-content/themes/coeo/images/logo.svg)](https://www.coeo.com/) +44 (0)20 3051 3595 | [info@coeo.com](mailto:info@coeo.com) | [Client portal login](https://my.coeo.com) # The Coeo Blog ## Matt O'Grady ![](https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/MattOGCircleLow.jpg) Matt is a Data Platform Specialist on Coeo’s Dedicated Support team. ### Recent Posts ## [How to sit your first Microsoft exam (from home!)](https://blog.coeo.com/sitting-microsoft-exams-at-home) Due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, the way we spend our everyday lives has changed drastically over the last few months. For many of us, sitting an exam is likely to be towards the bottom of the agenda during these periods of social lockdown and isolation. One benefit of this, however, is that.. [![Matt O'Grady](https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/MattOGCircleLow.jpg)](https://blog.coeo.com/sitting-microsoft-exams-at-home) [Matt O'Grady](https://blog.coeo.com/author/matt-ogrady) | August 13 , 2020 ## [Cyber Security Monthly News - July 2020](https://blog.coeo.com/cyber-security-monthly-news-july-2020) In July's news, Amazon confirms that its cloud computing platform, AWS, was subject to largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in recorded history back in February. The 2.3Tbps attack, which took place on 17th February, surpassed the previous record of 1.35Tbps sustained by GitHub in.. [![Matt O'Grady](https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/MattOGCircleLow.jpg)](https://blog.coeo.com/cyber-security-monthly-news-july-2020) [Matt O'Grady](https://blog.coeo.com/author/matt-ogrady) | July 09 , 2020 ## [Cyber Security Monthly News - January 2020](https://blog.coeo.com/cyber-security-monthly-news-january-2020) In January's news - researchers have uncovered an unsecured database in the cloud containing sensitive information belonging to thousands of British citizens and a number of High Street banks were forced to halt foreign currency exchange following a ransomware attack on travel money supplier.. 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