Category: IT Infrastructure
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Why your disaster recovery plan needs testing, not just a document
Many organisations have a disaster recovery plan. Far fewer have proven that it works. When a real incident strikes, such as ransomware, a data centre failure or a corrupted database, an untested plan often fails at the first step. Start with recovery objectives For each critical system, agree two numbers with the business: the recovery…
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A Microsoft 365 security baseline for small and medium businesses
Microsoft 365 is now the heart of most businesses: email, files, Teams and identity all live in one tenant. That makes it a prime target. The good news is that a handful of settings block the vast majority of attacks. 1. Enforce multi-factor authentication for everyone Stolen passwords are the most common way into a…
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IT infrastructure health check: 12 things every business should review
Most IT outages are not caused by rare disasters. They come from small issues that build up unnoticed: a full disk, a failed backup job nobody checked, an expired certificate. A regular infrastructure health check finds these risks before they turn into downtime. Here are the 12 areas we review first when we assess a…