The “Move Everything to the Cloud” Advice Was Wrong For the past decade, the message from every IT vendor and consultant has been the same: move everything to the cloud. Ditch the servers. Go all-in on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud. The future is cloud-only. Plenty of businesses followed that advice. Some of them are…
Hook: The Problem With Trusting Everyone Inside Your Network Think about your office. You have a locked front door, maybe a key card system, perhaps even CCTV. But once someone is inside, can they walk into the server room, open the filing cabinet with client records, or sit down at the finance director’s desk? In…
Your Cloud Bill Is Growing Faster Than Your Business When you first moved to Azure or Microsoft 365, the bills were manageable. A few hundred pounds a month, predictable, easy to justify. But as your business has grown, something has shifted. Your cloud costs are climbing faster than your headcount, and nobody can explain exactly…
Short answer: supplier cyber security means knowing which outside firms can reach your data or systems, and asking each of them a handful of plain questions about how they protect it. For a small business that’s usually five to ten suppliers: your IT provider, your accountant or payroll bureau, your practice or case management software,…
The AI That Does the Work, Not Just the Talking AI chatbots answer questions. You type something, they respond. Useful, but limited. In 2026, a new category is taking shape: agentic AI. These are systems that don’t just respond to prompts. They take a goal, break it into steps, use the tools available, and execute…
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…
If the SRA knocked on your door tomorrow and asked to see your IT security controls, could you show them? Not just “we have antivirus” or “our IT person handles that.” Actual documented evidence that client data is protected, that you have tested backups, that your team knows how to spot a phishing email. Most…
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….
