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Microsoft 365 keeps getting more secure by default, but only for new customers. If your business has been using Microsoft 365 for a few years, your settings are…
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Your cyber insurance renewal form probably includes a question along these lines: do you maintain immutable or offline backups of your critical business data? A…
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Most cyberattacks do not start with a sophisticated intrusion. They start with someone clicking a link in a personal email on a work laptop, or uploading a clie…
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Someone leaves your practice on a Friday. By Monday, their email is disabled and their laptop is back in the drawer. What nobody checks is the project managemen…
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Most of the IT problems that eat into your day do not start with a hardware failure or a server going down. They start with someone installing something they sh…
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Your accounts payable process runs on trust. A supplier sends an invoice, someone approves it, and the payment goes out. That rhythm works well until someone ou…
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Your staff member clicks a link, enters their credentials, approves the MFA prompt, and gets back to work. Somewhere else, an attacker has just walked into that…
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You turned on multi-factor authentication. Your team gets the prompts, they tap approve, and you feel reasonably confident your accounts are protected. That con…
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Every practice has one. A server, a device, or a piece of software that nobody wants to touch. It still works. It runs something important. And it has accumulat…
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Most business owners never think about leaving a software platform until they have to. A price hike arrives. A feature disappears. A provider gets acquired. Sud…
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Your staff probably have half a dozen browser extensions installed right now. A grammar checker, a PDF tool, something that clips web pages to a note-taking app…
Read moreA change to how healthcare practices must handle patient information came into force on 1 May 2026. It closes a gap that has existed for years, and whether your…
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