Hook: The Access That Nobody Revoked A member of staff hands in their notice. HR sorts the paperwork. They return their laptop on the last day. Job done. Except it is not done. Their Microsoft 365 login still works. Their VPN credentials are still active. They can still access your CRM, your shared drives, and…
Most small businesses aren’t falling short because they don’t care. They’re falling short because they didn’t build their security strategy as one coordinated system. They added tools over time to solve immediate problems, a new threat here, a client request there. On paper, that can look like strong coverage. In reality, it often creates a…
Think about your office building. You probably have a locked front door, security staff, and maybe even biometric checks. But once someone is inside, can they wander into the supply closet, the file room, or the CFO’s office? In a traditional network, digital access works the same way, a single login often grants broad access…
Last year, homebuyers lost GBP 11.7 million to conveyancing fraud. Estate agents are in the middle of it. Between April 2024 and March 2025, Action Fraud recorded 143 cases of conveyancing fraud in the UK. The average residential victim lost GBP 78,393. That is not a statistic. That is someone’s house deposit, gone in a…
Your Cyber Essentials certification is about to get harder to pass. On 27 April 2026, the biggest update to the Cyber Essentials scheme in years takes effect. It is called the Danzell question set (v3.3), and it introduces automatic failures for things that used to be recommendations. If your business holds Cyber Essentials, or you…
Short answer: the biggest supply chain attacks of recent years didn’t break into their victims directly. They went through a supplier: a payroll bureau, a pathology lab, a software update. Small businesses rarely make the headlines, but they’re in exactly the same position, relying on a handful of outside firms for data, systems and money….
Imagine a former employee, maybe someone who didn’t leave on the best terms. Their login still works, their company email still forwards messages, and they can still access the project management tool, cloud storage, and customer database. This isn’t a hypothetical scenario; it’s a daily reality for many small businesses that treat offboarding as an…
The tax year ends on 5 April 2026. If your business has spent money on IT this year, most of it is claimable against your tax bill. If your business has not spent money on cyber security this year, you have three weeks to fix that and still claim the expense. This is not about…
In February 2026, the UK Government launched “Lock the Door,” a national campaign telling every business to implement five basic cyber protections. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) are behind it. The reason is straightforward: cyber crime costs the UK economy £14.7 billion a year, 43%…
On 11 March 2026, a pro-Iran hacktivist group called Handala attacked Stryker Corporation, a Fortune 500 medical device manufacturer. They did not use ransomware. They did not ask for money. They gained access to Stryker’s Microsoft Intune and Entra device management platform and wiped over 200,000 devices, including servers, PCs, and mobile phones, within minutes….
