Ransomware groups are targeting smaller UK firms — backups are the difference
Criminals who lock up company computers and demand money have switched targets: instead of big corporations, they now go after ordinary businesses like yours, because the defences are weaker. The firms that survived without paying all had spare copies of their data kept safely offline — and had checked those copies actually work. If nobody has tested yours this year, that is the thing to fix first.
The technical version
Incident data shows a shift in ransomware targeting toward the 10–250 employee bracket. Recovery without payment correlated with immutable, offline (air-gapped or object-locked) backups with verified restore procedures. Action: confirm your 3-2-1 backup coverage includes Microsoft 365, and schedule restore tests.
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Microsoft 365 licence changes land this autumn — check what you’re actually paying for
Microsoft is reshuffling its subscription plans again. In plain terms: many businesses pay for features nobody uses. Before your renewal, it is worth someone checking what your staff actually use against what you are billed for — the saving is usually real money.
The technical version
The licence line-up changes affect plan composition and per-seat pricing at renewal. In our audits, 15–20% over-licensing is typical (unused E3/E5 features, orphaned seats, add-ons duplicating bundled capabilities). Action: usage-map licences against actual consumption before the renewal date locks pricing.
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Most “AI pilots” stall at the data-privacy question — self-hosting answers it
Businesses want to use AI tools but worry — rightly — about typing company information into someone else’s website. There is a way round it: the AI can run on a computer inside your own building, so nothing ever leaves the company. That is a service we design and build.
The technical version
Board-level blockers on AI adoption centre on data residency and third-party processing. Self-hosted deployment — local LLMs on on-premise hardware with no external API calls — removes the data-egress issue entirely. We design and build these stacks: hardware sizing, model selection, and the integration layer.
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