A major UK-wide study found that 48% of small and medium-sized businesses had lost, or lost access to, company or customer data within the previous five years. That affected about 800,000 UK businesses and cost UK companies more than £5.3 billion since 2019. Commercial data loss alone exceeded £1 billion a year, according to Beaming's...
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Smart VPN Client: A Guide for UK SMEs
Monday morning starts the same way for too many SMEs. One person can't connect from home, another has forgotten a password again, and someone in finance is asking whether the laptop sitting on a kitchen table is really safe enough for client data. The business keeps moving, but the remote access setup is becoming a...
Read MoreIncident Response Planning: A Practical Guide for UK SMEs
Most UK SMEs already know they should have an incident response plan. The problem is that many of them have a document, a few named contacts, and no real confidence that any of it will work at 08:47 on a Tuesday when Microsoft 365 accounts start locking out, files go missing, and the person who...
Read MorePassword Management for Teams: A UK SME Guide 2026
Monday morning usually exposes the problem. Someone in accounts can't get into the supplier portal. The office manager has a browser full of saved logins but no one knows which ones are current. A fee earner in a legal practice needs urgent access to a client filing system, but the partner who set it up is...
Read MoreHow to Create a Disaster Recovery Plan: A UK SME Guide
Monday morning starts badly. Staff can't open shared files, Microsoft 365 looks wrong, the line-of-business system won't authenticate, and someone in accounts says a ransom note has appeared on screen. At that point, nobody cares whether backups exist in theory. They care about what gets restored first, who makes the call to take systems offline,...
Read MoreWhat Is Endpoint Detection and Response? EDR for UK
A lot of SME owners are in the same place. You've got antivirus on every laptop, Microsoft 365 in place, a firewall at the edge, and someone in the business assumes that means you're covered. Then a user clicks a convincing email, a malicious script runs inside a legitimate tool, and nothing looks dramatic at...
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