Your team arrives at work, but the files won’t open. Orders are waiting and customers are calling. What happens next? It doesn’t take a cyberattack to stop work. Failed equipment, a power problem or damage to your office can do it too. A disaster recovery plan explains how you’ll get your systems and information back….
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If you’ve got a cyber insurance renewal coming up, the application is probably longer than the one you filled in last time. It’s also more specific. Every new question maps to a control that, when missing, let a major 2023 or 2024 claim spiral. How you answer matters more than it used to, and the…
Cyber insurance renewal forms include a question that catches out a lot of small business owners: “Do you maintain immutable, air-gapped, or offline backups of your critical business data?” Most owners tick yes. They have backups, the backups run every night, and someone’s paid to keep an eye on them. That feels like a yes….
Before you enable Microsoft Copilot in your business, there’s one question worth sending to whoever manages your Microsoft 365 environment: “Can you show me every file in our tenant that’s accessible to more than ten people?” If they can produce that report within a few days, your environment has been actively managed and you’re in…
By the time a staff member hands in their notice, the decisions that will make their exit clean or messy have already been made. They were made in the first weeks of that person’s tenure, back when nobody was paying close attention because there were a hundred other things going on. A shared login here,…
The most time-consuming ticket in your queue is rarely a hardware failure. It’s the PC infection that started when someone installed something they shouldn’t have been able to. Or the broken setup left behind after a staff member changed a setting nobody can trace. Local administrator rights, the ability to install software, change system settings, […]
Your team runs on passwords. Some are strong, some aren’t, and most have been reused somewhere over the years. Every month your IT support fields reset requests. Every year, the same breach reports name stolen credentials as the leading cause. Passwords have had sixty years to prove themselves, and the verdict is in. There’s now […]
A voicemail lands for someone in your finance team. It’s the boss, by the sound of it, asking them to push through an urgent payment to a supplier whose bank details have just changed. The voice is right. The context is right. The pressure is real. And it’s completely fake. Business email compromise (BEC, where […]
Checking a personal inbox on the work laptop. Saving a work password into a browser already logged into your personal accounts. Uploading a file to a familiar cloud service because the approved one felt slow. None of these feel like security decisions in the moment. Each one quietly connects your personal digital life to your […]