A Cyber Essentials certificate does not expire quietly. It expires on a fixed date, twelve months after the assessment was passed, and after that date it stops being valid for…
A dental practice holding patient records and a two-partner solicitors’ firm handling client funds have more in common than either would guess. From an attacker’s point of view, both are…
When comparing Cyber Essentials vs Cyber Essentials Plus, it is important to understand that a Cyber Essentials Plus badge is not simply a more advanced version of the same certificate….
Break-fix IT has a clean commercial logic. Your IT company earns money when things go wrong. Nothing goes wrong, nothing earned. Something goes wrong, they invoice. Something goes catastrophically wrong,…
Businesses usually find out Cyber Essentials certification is a contract requirement at the moment they have already lost a tender. The Cabinet Office made it mandatory for central government suppliers in 2014….
IT support providers do not publish their pricing. This is deliberate. The managed IT support cost for any given business varies enough that a number on a website creates more confusion than…
Most businesses in Liverpool pick their IT support company the same way they pick a takeaway. Whoever comes up first, has decent reviews, and responds fastest gets the contract. Three months in,…
IT compliance care homes is not something most care home managers are thinking about on a Tuesday afternoon. Their focus is on delivering safe, high-quality care. But the regulatory environment…
A decade ago a school could function with a modest broadband connection and a couple of shared computers. That model stopped working around 2015 and most schools know it. What…
There is a version of this conversation that comes up a lot with charity leaders. It tends to go something like: “We are a small housing charity. We do not…