Protect your people, devices and business data.

Identity protection, in plain terms, is control over company accounts. Entra ID is the directory behind Microsoft 365 sign-in: it decides who gets into email and files. If it is loose, a leaked password becomes a business incident. If it is clumsy, staff share logins to get work done.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a second check when someone signs in, usually on a phone. It does not make accounts perfect. It does mean a password on its own is no longer enough. Access control is the rest of the job: who has admin rights, how joiners get set up, and whether a leaver’s access actually stops.

We help you put those controls in a way the small and medium business can live with, including the exceptions people invent when the official process is too awkward.

A mailbox on an unmanaged laptop is still company data. Antivirus and endpoint security here means the device itself: it is protected, set up in a known way, it receives updates, and it is not left running software that nobody is looking after.

Patching is the routine work of applying those updates before they pile up. Device management means a new starter can work on a standard laptop, and a lost or returned machine does not keep company files. We use Intune where company Windows PCs, and phones if you use them, need policy.

We do not roll out device management for its own sake. If a lighter approach is enough, we will say so.

For most growing companies, Microsoft 365 is the office. Security configuration means tightening the settings that were left on defaults: who can send as the company, how mail is filtered, who can share a customer folder, and which admin accounts still exist.

Email security will not catch every convincing message. It does reduce the volume of junk and spoofed invoices that reach the inbox, so staff are not relying on instinct alone. Detail on day-to-day administration lives on our Microsoft 365 page. We work with these Microsoft products; this page does not claim official Microsoft partner status.

Protection is incomplete if you cannot recover. An untested backup, or a copy on the same machine, is not a plan. Backup belongs in cybersecurity because ransomware, accidental deletion and a failed laptop are all ways of losing the week.

We look at what would actually stop the business, and whether those copies can be restored, not only whether a job reports success. That work sits with backup and business continuity. We do not invent recovery times on this page.

Security drifts. People join, leave, share a folder “just this once”, and laptops miss an update. Ongoing management is the routine work that keeps the controls you agreed actually in place: accounts, devices, mail settings and documentation so it is not trapped in one person’s head.

Security awareness, for us, is explaining the risks to staff in plain language, not a fear campaign. Technical controls still do most of the catching. Awareness sits alongside them so people know why MFA exists and what a suspect invoice looks like.

For most clients this is delivered as part of managed IT support, not as a separate product you never open. How we respond, and when we are available, is agreed when we take you on, not advertised as 24/7 cover.