"Microsoft doesn’t backup your data automatically"

Whilst Southern Water, operations and services have not been affected, the company is under siege because of a recent cyber attack orchestrated by the Black Basta group (January 2024). The group illegally stole data from the utility company and allegedly released it onto the web.

PSTN or Public Switched Telephone Network has done us proud for the last one hundred years. Copper wire has been at the heart of our communication network, but it’s time to say goodbye, and on December 31st 2025, PSTN will be switched off for good.

What is a Risk Register? It’s a documented record of all the potential risks that you, as a business, could face with your IT. With each issue, all the associated actions that you need to take to manage them will be there for you. It’s a pretty cool tool when you are looking to manage any kind of IT risk across your network.

"They could have never imagined that the title of their song would have such relevance today."

"Phishing, vishing, and smishing stands for the different ways in which you might be cyber attacked "

As part of Microsoft’s Modern Lifecycle Policy, the Company is ending all active support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025.

‘Connectivity where you least expect it’. That’s a bold statement to make, but can the world's most advanced internet system, do exactly what it says it can do?

Southern Water, a water utility company that provides essential drinking water and wastewater treatment services to more than 4.5 million customers across Sussex, Kent, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, confirmed that they were looking into claims by cyber hackers. Black Basta claim to have stolen 750 gigabytes of personal and corporate information from the utility company and the cyber thieves...

You go into your office and find yourself locked out of your computer and it gets worse - you’re being asked for a ransom to retrieve your access, here’s how you can stop that.