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What are the cyber threats for the construction industry in the East of England?
Historically, the construction industry is reported as the second lowest sector to have adopted information technology. Although slow to...
Feb 3, 20224 min read


Why should I spend the time and money of my charity on achieving cyber essentials?
Charities are a key target of cyber criminals due to the valuable information they hold - beneficiaries, volunteers, supporters as well...
Feb 2, 20223 min read


What free tools can local authorities and councils’ access to reduce the risk of cyber-attack?
Local government is frequently a target for cyber criminals. Cyber criminals seek to cause massive disruption to services via ransomware,...
Jan 24, 20222 min read


Is your recruitment website leaving your data open for criminals?
Why would a recruitment agency be a target from cybercrime? Cyber criminals love personal data and online systems, which places...
Jan 17, 20223 min read


Healthcare – weak passwords are a significant factor in cybercrime breaches across the sector
Healthcare organizations hold some of the world’s most sensitive data. Recent studies and experience shows many remain unprepared for...
Jan 14, 20224 min read


Retail Sector – what do you do when you find out you’ve been hacked?
Retail sector - what do you do if you find out you've been hacked?
Jan 12, 20224 min read


Top Tips for the Property sector
Top tips for the Property sector
Jan 11, 20223 min read


Retail Sector – Protect your website from cyber criminals
Like most retail companies currently operating in the region I imagine that you’ve got a really good website. Loads of content with...
Jan 7, 20224 min read


This year I'll... do the minimum?
Make a business New Year resolution - to do at least the minimum to increase your businesses cyber resilience. 2021 saw cyber crime...
Dec 30, 20213 min read


"The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much you spend at Christmas."
Henry David Thoreau said "The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much you spend at Christmas." Christmas is about...
Dec 21, 20213 min read


Charities - what is ransomware and am I at risk?
Guidance for Charities around Ransomware
Dec 17, 20213 min read


Busy shopping or busy defending against cyber threats?
Celebrate Computer Security Day
Nov 30, 20213 min read


Charities – use strong passwords to protect your organisation from cyber criminals
Charities - use strong passwords
Nov 24, 20213 min read


5 tips for cyber resilience on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Black Friday, 26th November, and Cyber Monday, 29th November, are key times of the year both for retailers and for cyber criminals. The...
Nov 15, 20213 min read


What is DoS or DDoS?
A Denial of Service (DoS) is a type of cyber-attack where a computer service is overloaded by requests, so that real users can no longer...
Nov 9, 20212 min read


How to spot a phishing URL
Phishing is one of the, if not the biggest, cyber risk to businesses. Metacompliance found that 91% of cyber attacks started with a...
Nov 5, 20213 min read


Boost your cyber resilience with our cyber incident response plan
In the last 12 months, the Department for Digital Media, Culture and Sport's Cyber Security Breaches Survey revealed that, 39% of...
Nov 3, 20212 min read


What is a Man-In-The-Middle attack and what you can do to prevent it.
Are you working from somewhere that isn’t your home or your place of work? Are you using public Wi-Fi? Do you know about...
Nov 3, 20212 min read


Do you know your cyber-Fact from Fiction?
Cyber-security month is drawing to a close so we thought we'd share a few questions to test your knowledge about what is fact or fiction....
Oct 26, 20212 min read


Raising the bar on cyber security
We are used to seeing ransomware threats against big businesses in the news, but cyber criminals are always on the lookout for the low...
Sep 23, 20212 min read

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