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Penetration testing for SMEs is one of those things most business owners know they should probably think about but rarely get around to actually doing. It sounds expensive, technical, and perhaps unnecessary for a business of your size. In practice, it’s one of the most direct ways to find out exactly where your defences would […]

Microsoft 365 is the backbone of most modern businesses. Email, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Word, Excel — if your team relies on any of these, you’re paying for a subscription. The question is: are you paying for the right subscription? And more to the point, are you paying for people who’ve left, features nobody uses, and

Cyber insurance has changed dramatically over the past few years. Five years ago, getting covered was relatively straightforward. Today, insurers apply the same rigorous scrutiny to your IT environment as underwriters once reserved for physical fire suppression systems. If the controls aren’t in place, you either pay significantly more or get declined entirely. For businesses

Most businesses know their computers are getting old. The question they keep avoiding is: how much is that actually costing them? Keeping aged hardware running “because it still works” is one of the most expensive decisions a business can make, and the real cost rarely shows up on a single invoice. What Counts as Outdated

When your team needs to work remotely, two options come up time and again: remote desktop and VPN. Both solve part of the problem. But they do it differently, at different costs, and with different tradeoffs in security. Get the choice wrong and you either restrict your team unnecessarily or expose your network to risk.

When a Manchester business acquires another company, financial and legal due diligence get all the attention. Accountants pour over the numbers; solicitors scrutinise the contracts. IT due diligence — the structured review of a target company’s technology estate before a deal completes — rarely gets the same focus, and that is a costly mistake. Infrastructure