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If you have ever seen a message asking you to restart your laptop, relaunch Edge, or reopen Teams and thought, “Why now?”, you are not alone.
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If you have ever seen a message asking you to restart your laptop, relaunch Edge, or reopen Teams and thought, “Why now?”, you are not alone.
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has delivered a clear new message: “Leave passwords in the past – passkeys are the future.” In April 2026, the NCSC formally updated its guidance to recommend using passkeys as the default way to log in wherever services support them, instead of traditional passwords (even those paired with multi-factor authentication). This is a major shift in cyber security advice, and overturns decades of password-centric best practices.
In recent years, AI has transitioned from a term used rarely to hearing it used in almost every conversation. Studies have shown that one in six organisations in the UK use AI in the workplace. This is because AI can automate tasks like drafting emails, summarising meetings and generating report. Some AI models are ‘multimodal’, meaning they can work with text, images, voice and video, while others are ‘unimodal’, built for one type of input like just text.
Extra Features, Agents, and Deeper Organisational Integration If you’ve been experimenting with the free version of Copilot Chat – perhaps drafting letters, generating images, summarising reports, or just getting quick
How to start Unlocking the Power of AI in the Workplace Are you curious about how AI Tools can make your work life easier, but not sure where to start?
In this series of 5 short tutorials, ‘Making Sense Of Information Security’, Ciaran delivers a step by step guide on getting to grips with this at times tricky concept. Aimed at office managers, we cover areas such as how to get senior management buy-in, how to undertake a risk assessment, how to approach treatment of those risks, your responsibilities to data subjects under the GDPR, and more.
AI tools are transforming how people approach their work, but online ‘free’ tools such as ChatGPT are not secure for businesses to use, and you should never enter any confidential or personal information into free online AI Services. This information can be used to train the AI and make it available to other users, and may constitute a data breach.
Achieving ISO27001, the gold standard of information security, is no mean feat. We’re incredibly proud of the achievement but we could have only done it with the help and engagement of everyone on the team.
We are exceptionally pleased to announce that as of 14th October 2024 we are now fully and officially ISO27001 certified, a process we started a little over a year ago. We’ve always taken information security seriously, and have been certified with Cyber Essentials and other standards from IASME since 2015. But it’s always been an ambition to go for the internally recognised Gold Standard.
Cyber Essentials is the minimum security baseline that all companies should aim to achieve. It checks to ensure that the very basics are covered, such as MFA on all Cloud service accounts, no admin rights for day-to-day use, and that security updates are installed promptly. If you are seeking to certify your own organisation, you should definitely ensure that your IT Support – who likely have far more access and control over your company data than you do – has at least this basic benchmark certification.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies in Microsoft 365 (M365) are useful security measures designed to monitor or prevent legitimate, inadvertent or malicious sharing of sensitive information outside of an organisation. As companies have moved away from on-premises servers for file storage towards M365 SharePoint and OneDrive, more and more are using it to save all their company data. But many business are not using the full range of functionality and background security features that make M365 a truly powerful modern tool for work and collaboration.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is here and in general release. This post is a summary (not by Copilot, but by us!) of some introductory documentation from Microsoft Learn on what it is, how it works, and how you can incorporate it into your Microsoft 365 experience.