A business continuity plan for a small business fits on two sides of paper. The six parts, the first hour of an incident, how to test it, and what your insurer will ask.
The cost of downtime is four numbers added together. A ten-minute method to put a figure on an hour of IT downtime for your business, with a worked example and the costs that don’t fit a spreadsheet.
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Short answer: supply chain cybersecurity cuts both ways. Bigger organisations are now checking the security of the small firms that supply them, because a weak supplier is an easy way in. If you supply a larger business, a council, the NHS or a university, expect a security questionnaire or a request for Cyber Essentials. The…
Your Cloud Provider Is Not Your Backup Provider Most businesses assume that because their data lives in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, it is backed up. That assumption is wrong, and it puts your business at risk every single day. Microsoft and Google are responsible for keeping their platforms running. They handle uptime, infrastructure, and…
The Backup You Have Never Tested Is the Backup You Do Not Have Every small business has data it cannot afford to lose: client records, financial files, email history, contracts. Most have some form of backup in place. Very few have ever tested whether that backup actually works. The UK Government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey…
Here at Hilt Digital—your cybersecurity and cloud solutions partner across the Wirral, Liverpool, Cheshire and the wider North West—we’ve seen it time and again: businesses breathing a sigh of relief because “we’ve got backups.” But when the latest, most aggressive ransomware hits, those very backups can be the first casualty. Let’s dive into why that…
Learn the top best practices for secure data backup to ensure your valuable information remains safe and accessible. Protect against data loss with these essential strategies.
When IT Works, You Don’t Notice It – But Your Business Feels the Benefits For many business owners, IT is something they only think about when it goes wrong. When systems crash, emails go down, or cyber threats appear, that’s when IT suddenly becomes “important.” But the truth is, the best IT and cybersecurity services…
