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Here you can find useful resources that will help inform and inspire your IT decisions. These articles represent the best of our team’s experience and expertise and are tailored around the needs of United Kingdom business leaders who want to make their processes as efficient and productive as possible.

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CISOs Turn to Indemnity Insurance as Breach Pressure Mounts

The cybersecurity landscape is witnessing a concerning trend that cyber insurance brokers and insurers cannot ignore: Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are increasingly looking for exit routes from their roles, driven by mounting personal liability concerns and a growing “blame culture” in the wake of cyber breaches. Recent research from Panaseer reveals a stark reality: […]

New Cyber Security Legislation and Its Impact on Your Insured Clients

The introduction of the UK’s new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill for June 2025 marks a significant shift in how we approach cyber protection for our insurance clients. This short article is designed to help you understand and respond to these changes, helping you to protect your clients. What is changing? The new legislation introduces […]

Why Are Cyber Insurance Claims Denied?

We buy insurance as a promise that if something goes wrong and we need to make a claim, that it will be paid, and we will be in the same position we were before the claim occurred. However, that is not always the case and when claims are rejected by insurers it can be upsetting […]

Why a Fractional CISO Could Save Your Business

Cybersecurity is no longer a luxury, it’s a necessity. UK businesses face an ever-increasing threat from cyber-attacks, with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) reporting a significant rise in incidents year over year. As these threats evolve, so must our defences. Enter the Fractional CISO – a flexible, cost-effective solution that’s revolutionising how UK businesses […]

Why Every Business Needs a Holistic IT Managed Service

Every business owner across the country is facing a range of risks and threats when it comes to IT security and compliance, with most if not all businesses relying on computers and connected tech to run their businesses. It is little wonder that some CEO’s and MD’s find themselves scratching their heads when it comes […]

Safeguarding Your Business from Email Compromise in Six Easy Steps:

In today’s interconnected digital world, email remains a cornerstone of communication for businesses worldwide. However, with the convenience of email comes the ever-looming threat of compromise, posing significant risks to data security, financial integrity, and brand reputation. Business email compromise (BEC) involves attackers manipulating or impersonating legitimate email accounts within an organisation to deceive employees, […]

How to create a cyber placement strategy for 2024

Cybersecurity threats are an ever-evolving challenge for businesses of all sizes. Data breaches, malware attacks, and other cyber incidents can inflict significant financial losses, reputational damage, and legal consequences. Aviva research reveals that one in five UK businesses have experienced a cyber-attack or incident, with nearly one in 10 (9%) small businesses experiencing this in […]

Selling Cyber – Creating A Kick-ass Sales Process

The cyber insurance market is booming, making it one of the fastest-growing sectors in the insurance industry. However, despite the increasing threat of cybercrime, many small businesses remain unfamiliar with cyber coverage, underestimating their own cyber risk and its potential consequences, a recent report by CFC estimated that only 15% of SMEs in the UK […]

Transforming Cyber Insurance: The Infoprotect Revolution

Infoprotect UK’s Cyber Risk Assessment Tool: Fortifying cybersecurity to reduce attack risks and claims. The insurance industry is facing increasing challenges in assessing and pricing cyber risk. The ever-evolving nature of cyber threats, lack of standardised risk assessment methodologies, and difficulty in obtaining complete and accurate data from clients are some of the main challenges. […]

Why Move to the Cloud ?

Unlocking the Power of Cloud Computing with Infoprotect In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are increasingly turning to cloud computing as a transformative solution. Cloud computing offers a wide range of benefits that can revolutionise the way organisations operate. At Infoprotect, we understand the potential of the cloud and how it can drive growth […]

Cybersecurity Insurance

In today’s increasingly digital world, businesses face numerous cyber security risks that can result in financial losses, reputation damage, and legal liabilities. Cyber security insurance can help mitigate these risks, but it’s important for businesses to have effective risk management practices in place to ensure they are properly covered by their policies. Here are some […]

Managing Human Risk in Phishing

Cybercriminals have been utilising emails to phish their victims for 30 years without notable reductions in breaches. Current success barriers for both educational and ‘in-the-wild’ phishing interventions are being discussed, alongside solutions indicative of OutThink, that work to overcome these challenges.

10 STEPS to CYBER RESILIENCE

There is so much collateral available around the cyber threats we face that we are certain most of the businesses out there do not know what to look for and quite frankly who to trust? Add to that, some of the information is full of technical jargon, acronyms, buzzwords, which creates further confusion. So, we […]

SMALL BUSINESS GUIDE to CYBER SECURITY

Having read several articles and publications relating to cyber security lately, there are common threads in most. We are taking this opportunity to supply a simple view of five key elements. Backing up your data Not all data needs to be backed up, so we need to find data that is fundamental to your business. […]

Take the fight to email impersonators

We estimate that around 4.3 billion people use E-mail, and they generate more than 300 billion E-mails every single day. With volumes that large, it concerns us that 96% of phishing attacks are E-mail driven, whilst 94% of malware attacks experienced, use E-mail. It therefore is obvious that, globally, we need conform to best practises […]

Cyber Insurance – MFA and SaaS

Today, the double-edged sword called cyber insurance is both a must-have and a safeguard that’s increasingly difficult to acquire and afford. In 2022, cyber insurance coverage is more elusive for companies than it was in 2021 and chances are strong that that trend will continue. Why is it so scarce and costly? The explosion of […]

Phishing – Lets Educate & Upskill the users

Users must be given the knowledge on how to recognise “phishing attacks,” in fact, a check list may be a feasible starting point. We are all aware that these attacks exist and are on the rise, but if the users could recognise and report the phishing emails, texts, telephone calls, adverts and websites that form […]

Answer yourself truthfully… Can your business afford LAN/WAN downtime?

Reliable connectivity for business operations is a critical success factor for any small-medium business. In fact, any business of any size. Having reviewed a recent Gartner publication, I realised that they had calculated the cost of downtime at an average of $5 600 per minute. Gartner also stated that the average downtime experienced when your […]

Into lockdown & post Brexit: Business as usual for Infoprotect UK.

Dear Customers In 2020, the global pandemic posed a number of challenges for businesses, none more so than the realisation that our workforces, became a decentralised workforce! Lockdowns and the need for social distancing became the norm as companies strived to retain continuity and support for all their customers. As the UK enters a further period of […]

The Hidden costs of cybercrime over and above the economic impact.

Infoprotect’s Brian Taylor shares his thoughts with us on the hidden costs of cybercrime. I had the pleasure of reviewing global statistics from a survey undertaken by a reputable global security vendor and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Having read the entire report, I felt compelled to share some pertinent comments and […]