Cheap tablets on site, expensive consequences
No passcode, no encryption, no way to wipe it when it goes missing.
What we'd do with £500 of security budget
A password manager, a backup with retention, and a restore test. In that order.
New year, new starters, same access problem
January is when access sprawl starts. A ten-minute checklist stops it.
AI bookkeeping tools: read the training clause
Free tiers usually permit training on your uploads. Paid ones usually don't.
The honest cost of certification
Fees, hours, and the six weeks of chasing nobody warns you about.
One hundred businesses later: the three findings that repeat
Leavers, backups, shared logins. Every sector, every size.
Tool theft and what trackers actually achieve
Recovery rates, insurance conversations, and why the register matters more than the tag.
Retail tills, staff accounts and seasonal turnover
Twelve temporary accounts in December, and three still live in March.
Why the assistant tells you when it isn't sure
Confident nonsense is worse than no answer. Ours labels its own doubt.
The email rule you didn't create
Quietly moving supplier mail to a folder you never open. That's how they stay invisible.
Creators: your account is your income
Account takeover, payout redirection and doxxing. The three that end careers, and the settings that prevent them.
Freelancers: one laptop, every client
Confidentiality, invoice fraud and working from anywhere on a single device.
Public Wi-Fi is mostly fine now. Here's what isn't
Fake networks, sign-in pages and the person reading your screen on the train.
The first hundred businesses we checked
Every one had a leaver with live access. Ninety-one had never restored a backup.
What a good IT partner should already be doing
And the five things they usually aren't, through no fault of their own.
Setting up a new business: the fifteen-minute security list
Domain, email, second factor, backup, and one page for customers.
Kitchens, tills and card readers
Where card data goes in a takeaway, and how to keep it out of your systems.
Why fear-selling doesn't work
Hooded figures and green code make people feel hopeless, not careful.
Our approach to AI, written down
What it does, what it never decides alone, and how we label uncertainty.
Two people, one password, and a very bad Tuesday
A short account of how one shared login cost a five-person firm nine days.