43% of UK businesses faced cyberattacks last year. Yet most SMEs still treat cybersecurity as "something to sort out later" or assume they're too small to be targeted. Why do you think smaller businesses consistently underestimate cyber risk?

Cyber insurance pays for losses. But if you can't restore operations quickly, the payout matters less than the operational downtime. How many businesses actually test their incident response plans?

MFA didn’t fail in most breaches this year. It worked as designed. In many cases, access was compromised before authentication, through behaviour, trust decisions, or environment. By the time MFA is challenged, the risk has already moved upstream.

Remote and hybrid work is standard now. But many businesses still run on connectivity infrastructure that was patched together in 2020 and hasn't been properly reviewed since. What's the biggest network challenge your team faces day-to-day?

Hybrid work is settled, but many organisations still run on connectivity infrastructure that was patched together in 2020 and hasn't been properly reviewed since. What's the biggest network challenge your team faces day-to-day?

Firmware updates on network equipment prevent significant exploit vectors. Yet they're consistently deprioritised behind more visible system updates. How does your organisation manage network device firmware?

Most organisations have incident response plans that haven't been tested under realistic conditions. The plan exists, but nobody knows if it actually works when systems are down and decisions need making. When did your organisation last test its incident response process?

Security patches close vulnerabilities, but deployment creates operational risk. Testing takes time, critical systems can't afford downtime. The tension between security and stability creates persistent exposure windows. What determines your patch deployment timeline?

Remote access expanded rapidly during 2020 and never contracted. VPNs, cloud desktops, and direct connections now create multiple entry points. Each requires separate security controls, monitoring, and management. How many remote access methods does your organisation support?

Many cyber incidents aren’t caused by a single failure. They’re the result of small assumptions compounding over time, about access, trust, and how systems are expected to behave under pressure.

Technology rarely fails in isolation. Most outages and breaches expose dependencies that were accepted quietly because they “worked well enough” until conditions changed.

Investment in new tools often gets the attention. But outcomes usually hinge on whether the underlying foundations were designed to cope when demand, threat, or scrutiny increases.

Unsupported infrastructure rarely fails loudly. Risk builds quietly when systems stop receiving updates, visibility degrades, and responsibility for how they behave day to day becomes unclear.

When platforms reach end of support, security exposure doesn’t spike overnight. It compounds over time as patching stops, compatibility drifts, and compliance assumptions quietly expire.

Aging infrastructure doesn’t just increase risk. It quietly caps what organisations can safely adopt next, long before anything actually breaks.

Security issues rarely start at the moment of attack. They build when systems age, assumptions go unchallenged, and visibility fades long before anything is obviously “broken”.

Restoring systems after an incident is only part of the problem. Understanding how data moves, where it’s exposed, and who owns that risk day to day is what usually determines the real impact.