Cyber Security Blog and Guides
Practical cyber security guidance for UK small businesses: Cyber Essentials, vulnerability assessment, ransomware, UK GDPR and IT security explained.
Vulnerability Assessment vs Penetration Testing: Which Does Your Business Need?
These two get sold interchangeably and they are not the same thing. Here is the actual difference, what each one costs you in time and money, and which one to buy first if you have never had either.
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Cyber Essentials is five technical controls and one badly understood scoping decision. Here is what each control actually requires, and the handful of issues that cause most first-time failures.
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No malware, no dramatic breach — just an attacker sitting quietly in a mailbox waiting for an invoice. Here is how it unfolds, and the one control that reliably stops it.
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Modern ransomware hunts your backups before it encrypts anything. If your backup is reachable with the same admin account as everything else, it is not a backup — it is another target.
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For most UK small businesses the Microsoft 365 tenant is now the crown jewels. These are the settings that matter, in the order they matter.
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The first hour decides how the next month goes. Most of the damage we clean up was caused by well-intentioned action taken before anyone knew what was happening.
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