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2026-07-17 17:52:39
### What Is Penetration Testing? A Guide for Businesses
You wouldn't move into a new office without checking that the locks and alarms work, access cards open the right doors, old codes have been disabled and restricted rooms are properly secured. The same level of detail should go into testing your website, customer portal, cloud platform and internal...
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2026-06-05 15:17:53
### Defence Cyber Certification Level 0: Now Available from Grant McGregor
Grant McGregor is now an approved Defence Cyber Certification Body for Level 0 assessments, helping organisations operating within, or looking to enter, the UK defence supply chain achieve independent certification through the Defence Cyber Certification (DCC) framework. A year after its launch,...
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2026-05-13 11:57:47
### Cyber Incident Readiness Exercise: Would Your Team Know What to Do?
In an ideal world, strong security controls would stop cyber incidents before they ever impact the business. Yet 2025 has already shown that even established organisations can be caught off guard. You may remember Marks & Spencer experiencing a cyber incident that made national headlines. But did...
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2025-12-05 17:29:36
### Building Resilience for 2026: Recent Cyber Security Events
As we approach 2026, cyber resilience is becoming increasingly important for SMEs that depend on cloud services, mobile apps and devices used across office and home settings. We are seeing more and more stories in the tech world that show how quickly things are changing and two recent security...
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2025-11-05 10:20:07
### Cyber Essentials 2026 Update: New MFA Rules, Cloud Scope & Compliance
Although IASME has described the 2026 update as "minor," it introduces important clarifications regarding multi-factor authentication (MFA), cloud services and scoping definitions. For many organisations, this will mean reviewing internal policies, raising awareness of user access controls and...
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2025-10-10 19:25:31
### EDR vs XDR: How Modern Detection Tools Are Changing Cyber Security
The security dashboard flags a suspicious sign-in, a new mailbox rule and an unexpected admin change in the cloud. None look critical on their own, but together they could signal the beginning of an attack. For years, security teams have relied on Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) to understand...
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2025-10-06 11:00:08
### MDR vs SOC: Making Sense of Your Cyber Security Defence Options
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2025-06-06 17:28:38
### Phishing, Ransomware, Data Leaks: Lessons from Recent UK Cyber Attacks
Following data breaches at Marks & Spencer and the Co-op, the education sector has become the latest target.
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2025-06-05 10:45:41
### Certified Cyber Advisor: Expert Guidance on Cyber Security
With cyber attacks affecting industries from education to retail across the UK, it’s more important than ever to strengthen your organisation’s cyber defences. Many organisations, particularly those without in-house expertise, struggle to know where to start. That’s where the Cyber Advisor Scheme...
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