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The first rung into cyber security is half what it was in 2022
Ada Lovelace Day will bring out the figure on women in cyber security again. A less quoted number, about entry-level jobs, says more about whether that figure can change. Of the UK cyber security job adverts that said how much experience they wanted in 2025, 16% asked for less than a year. In 2022 the…
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Fourteen days: what Cyber Essentials now expects your people to do
Cyber Essentials now fails organisations outright on patching and multi-factor authentication. Some of October’s training effort belongs with the people who run those controls. Fourteen days is how long an organisation seeking Cyber Essentials has to install a high-risk or critical security update. For assessment accounts created after 26 April 2026, answering “no” to either…
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Twenty-Five Years in Managed Services, and What Actually Stuck
My last day in managed services is 30 September, 25 years after my career began. The technology changed beyond recognition in that time, more than once. What stuck was what the work taught me about how the world works, about people, and eventually about myself. The lessons about the world came first. Most of the…
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What Happens If Your AI Vendor Goes Dark Tomorrow?
Ask most technology leaders whether they know their organisation’s biggest single point of failure, and they’ll usually point to a legacy system, a key supplier, or one irreplaceable member of staff. Ask them whether that point of failure might now be an AI vendor they signed up with eighteen months ago for a pilot project,…
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The Skill Gap Nobody Puts on a Project Management Certificate
Every project manager I’ve worked alongside can build a schedule, manage a risk register and run a stand-up meeting competently. That was never really in question. What separates the ones whose projects actually land from the ones whose projects technically finish but never quite deliver what the business needed has always been something harder to…
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