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8 Essential Questions to Help You Choose the Right Compliance Provider

For startups and SMEs navigating compliance with frameworks like ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, or Cyber Assurance, selecting the right compliance provider can feel overwhelming. Compliance providers differ significantly in their offerings, making it tricky to compare them directly. However, just as you’d research a new smartphone or software, finding the perfect compliance partner starts with

Is Managed Compliance The Answer For Your Small Business?

Running a small business can feel like a constant juggling act. There’s customer acquisition to manage, operations to streamline, and competitors to outpace. Compliance is often one of the last things on a business owner’s mind – until it becomes essential. With regulations tightening, especially in data security and privacy, ignoring compliance isn’t an option.

Managed Service vs IT Support – What’s the Difference?

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When choosing your organisation’s technology support provider, it’s essential to understand the difference between IT support and managed services. While both are vital for maintaining a healthy IT infrastructure, they offer different approaches and benefits. This article will outline these distinctions to help you make informed decisions for your business. IT Support: Reactive Solutions for

Top Tips for Better Endpoint Security

Hackers are constantly on the lookout for easy targets, and endpoints—like laptops, desktops, and mobile devices—are prime candidates. In fact, research shows that 70% of cyber breaches originate from these devices, making endpoint security a critical component of any cybersecurity strategy. As your organisation grows, protecting these vulnerable access points becomes even more challenging. But

Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365: Which is Right for Your Business?

Choosing between Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 can be a tough decision for any organisation. Both platforms are powerful, reliable, and widely used, offering a suite of cloud-based tools designed to enhance productivity, collaboration, and communication. This blog post will guide you through the key differences between the two, helping you make an informed choice

Your Complete Guide to BCDR Plan Testing

Having a robust disaster recovery plan is essential, but it’s only the first step. A comprehensive Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan must include regular testing to ensure effectiveness across three critical areas: people, processes, and technology. This guide outlines the importance of BCDR testing, goals, types of tests, and best practices. Importance of

BYOD: disadvantages and advantages to consider

BYOD has its advantages and disadvantages. An abbreviation of “Bring Your Own Device”, this trendy, relatively new workplace innovation has made a big splash in the past few years. Some people love BYOD. As an employee, you get to use your own familiar laptop or smartphone. As an employer, you get to save money on

What is identity protection (and why should SMEs care)?

Your digital identity sounds a bit pretentious. But it encapsulates everything about what you say and do online, your login details, and more. This is why identity protection is something that SMEs really need to start caring about. Because cybercrime – especially threats against SMEs, widely supposed to have fewer resources to protect themselves –

Outsourced IT services – are they right for your business?

Making the decision to professionalise your business’s tech can feel like a big step. But outsourced IT services exist for a reason. In fact, they exist for several very good ones: Because up until they reach a certain size, most businesses won’t find it cost-effective to have an internal IT department. Even the salary of

Are you avoiding these 5 key compliance mistakes?

Cybersecurity compliance is a worthy and highly necessary goal for any organisation. But many companies risk their reputation and their security by making key compliance mistakes. So, how about it? How many of these are you managing to avoid? How many of these compliance mistakes does your business make? 1) Neglecting an internal audit An