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There is a dangerous belief that still exists in business. “We’re too small. Why would a hacker bother with us?” It might have been a reasonable assumption years ago, but it isn’t anymore. In fact, I would argue that thinking your business is too small to be attacked is now one of the biggest cyber

You pay the premium. You have the policy.  So surely, if something goes wrong, you’re covered? Not necessarily. This is something many businesses don’t think about until they’re trying to make a claim. Your cyber insurance policy may assume that certain security controls are already in place. MFA. Backups. Endpoint protection. Access controls. Patching. Monitoring.

For years, businesses were told that cyber security was relatively simple. Put a firewall around the network, install antivirus on the computers, keep everything patched, don’t click suspicious links and job done.  Except the world has changed. The attackers have changed. The threat has changed. The way we defend cannot stay the same. Firewalls and

Most businesses imagine a cyber attack as a loud and active event. The attackers gain entry to the systems and the lights go off, computers go dark and alarms ring while they deliver the attacker’s ransom demands. The IT team are running in circles, the executives barricade themselves in a boardroom and chaos immediately ensues. 

It doesn’t have to be.  About a year ago I wrote that cyber resilience wasn’t a technology trend. It was a business necessity. Twelve months later, I wish I’d been wrong. In the last year we’ve watched some of the UK’s biggest organisations brought to their knees by cyber criminals. Household names, including Marks & Spencer,

Every week there’s another headline about AI. There is so much noise that most people are lost, and keep focusing on the AI itself. have no idea where they stand.  Every week businesses ask me the same question in relation to cyber security: “How worried should we be about AI?” I think that’s the wrong

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about AI becoming capable of launching cyber attacks autonomously.  It’s an extraordinary development. Researchers have demonstrated AI systems capable of planning attacks, identifying weaknesses, chaining exploits together and achieving objectives with minimal human intervention and the freaky part is that this was during a “controlled evaluation”. This tells

When most people think about malware, they imagine chaos. Computers locking up, a ransom note demanding Bitcoin, employees unable to work and the business grinding to a halt. Those attacks certainly happen, but they’re not the attacks that worry me the most. The most dangerous cyber attacks are often the ones that never announce themselves.

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is a managed cybersecurity service where a specialist security team continuously monitors your systems, detects threats, investigates suspicious activity, and responds to security incidents on your behalf. If you’re being sold MDR as your cyber security strategy, someone isn’t telling you the whole story. There’s a trend in our industry that’s

Over the past year, the cyber threat landscape has shifted again, not gradually, but sharply. We’re no longer talking about theoretical risks or future concerns. We’re dealing with real-world disruption, real financial loss and very public business impact. In the UK alone, several high-profile organisations including Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Jaguar Land Rover have experienced significant