Windows 10 is out of support. What that means for your business.
Support ended in October 2025. Every vulnerability published since is permanent on an unpatched machine. How to work out what you have and what to do about it.
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The ordinary controls that stop the things that actually happen — patching, backups, access, and testing that any of it works.
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Cyber Essentials changed in April 2026. MFA is now pass or fail.
Version 3.3 landed on 27 April 2026. Missing MFA on a cloud service is now an automatic fail — no warnings, no exception for paid-only tiers.
The three attacks that actually hit small businesses
Not zero-days and not nation states. The things that genuinely happen to small firms are ordinary, preventable, and rarely discussed at the right level.
Your backups are not backups until you have restored one
Most businesses that lose data had backups. What they did not have was a restore anyone had ever watched work. How to find out before it matters.
Firmware and BIOS drift: the outage you can see coming
Identical servers slowly stop being identical. Drift is boring, invisible, and behind a surprising share of the failures that look random.
Website security basics most small businesses get wrong
You don't need an enterprise security budget. You do need to get five unglamorous things right — and most sites we inherit have missed at least three.
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