Cybersecurity has become part of everyday conversation in modern organisations. Major ransomware attacks, data breaches, and online fraud incidents are now widely reported in the news, and most employees are well aware that cyber criminals regularly target businesses through phishing emails, fraudulent messages, and other forms of social engineering. In response, many organisations have introduced […]
At the time of writing, the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is progressing through Committee Stage in the House of Commons. That means it is being examined line by line, debated, amended and refined before moving further through the legislative process. It is not yet law, and details may still change. But it is serious. […]
A finance assistant receives an email from a long-standing supplier. The tone is familiar. The branding is correct. The request is straightforward: bank details have changed, and future payments should be redirected to a new account. Nothing about the email feels dramatic. It does not look like a cyberattack. It looks like admin. In that […]
Most small businesses know they should think about cybersecurity risk. What often stops them isn’t a lack of concern, but uncertainty. They’re not sure what a risk assessment is supposed to look like, how formal it needs to be, or whether they’re even the right person to do it. The term itself tends to conjure […]
Most small businesses don’t think of themselves as a cybersecurity risk. That isn’t denial, and it isn’t ignorance. It’s a perfectly reasonable conclusion based on lived experience. Nothing serious has happened. Systems seem to work. Clients are happy. Work gets done. From the outside, everything looks fine. Cybersecurity, meanwhile, is largely invisible when it’s working. […]
Cyber insurance is often spoken about in the same way as firewalls, backups, and incident response plans. Something sensible organisations are expected to have. Something that reassures boards, clients, and insurers alike. And yet, when incidents actually happen, many businesses discover that their understanding of cyber insurance was built on assumptions rather than reality. Claims […]
If you sit in enough meetings about risk, compliance, or “cyber”, you start to notice something interesting. The language changes, but the assumptions rarely do. Cybersecurity and information security are used as if they’re interchangeable. Different words, same meaning. Same budget line. Same responsibility. Most of the time, no one challenges that assumption. It feels […]
When most people picture a cyberattack, they imagine hooded figures in dark rooms, frantically typing lines of code to break through firewalls and steal sensitive data. The image is cinematic, but it doesn’t reflect reality. The truth is more unsettling: many of the most damaging breaches don’t start with an external hacker at all. They […]
