Penetration Testing Cost UK: 2026 Rates & Scoping Guide
UK IT leaders navigating commercial assurance, cyber insurance renewals, and compliance audits frequently struggle with opaque security pricing. Across a large set of published UK price points tracked…
Defender for Office 365 vs Mimecast: Keep or Replace in 2026?
Microsoft's mid-2026 packaging update quietly rewired this decision: Microsoft 365 E3 now includes Defender for Office 365 Plan 1, a control UK IT teams have often addressed via separate SEG-style gat…
UK Ransomware Payment Ban: What It Means for Response Plans
The UK government is advancing legislative proposals to curb cyber extortion through a targeted payment ban for public bodies and regulated critical national infrastructure, complemented by private se…
Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: Are You in Scope for 2026?
As of September 2026, the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill remains before Parliament ahead of final passage into law. The legislation represents a major reform of the UK’s cyber security and resilie…
Shadow AI Policy UK 2026: Block, Sanction, or Govern?
Unsanctioned artificial intelligence in the workplace has shifted from an occasional rogue habit toward a **widely embedded practice across many enterprises**, with 2026 surveys reporting shadow AI us…
Data Domain vs StoreOnce: Dedupe Appliance or DIY Target?
For UK infrastructure leaders reviewing backup target refreshes in 2026, the marketing pitch remains seductive: Dell Data Domain and HPE StoreOnce deduplication appliances cite aggressive data reducti…
Backup Data Residency UK 2026: Sovereignty & CLOUD Act
Securing backup data residency in the UK requires navigating a sharp legal divide that physical data centre geography cannot bridge alone. While the European Commission formally adopted renewed UK ade…
Active Directory Disaster Recovery: The Plan You're Missing
When NotPetya tore through Maersk's global network, nearly every domain controller was destroyed — except one, in a branch office in Ghana, which survived and became the crucial fallback for rebuildin…
Cyber Insurance Backup Requirements in 2026: The UK Guide
UK cyber insurance underwriters in 2026 no longer treat data protection as a basic operational hygiene checkbox. Carriers increasingly treat resilient recovery architecture as a key underwriting gate …
Veeam Proxmox Support: Backups Surviving a VMware Exit
Migrating away from VMware ESXi without confirming backup compatibility leaves organisations vulnerable to unrecoverable workloads and stranded compliance chains. As of mid-2026, veeam proxmox support…
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