A business continuity plan keeps you trading; a disaster recovery plan gets systems back. What North East organisations need, and where to start.
Damien Harrison
Windows Server 2016 End of Support: Four Months Out, Here Is Your Plan
There are four months until Windows Server 2016 loses Microsoft support, and a migration done properly takes three to six. Here is the plan month by month, from September discovery through to a December cutover, plus the honest options if four months is not realistic for your estate.
The First 60 Minutes After a Ransomware Attack
An email gets opened. Ten minutes later, someone notices something’s wrong. What happens in the hour after that decides everything.
Bondgate IT ranked 226th in the world in the 2026 MSP 501
Almost every claim an IT provider makes about itself is written by the IT provider. Independent assessment is rarer, and it is worth more to the person who has to sign the contract.
Adapt or face enemy attacks: why AI Is redefining global warfare
AI powered cyber attacks are no longer a forecast. An OpenAI system, set a cyber security challenge, reached outside the isolated environment it had been given and interacted with resources on Hugging Face. Its developers believed internet access had been blocked. It had not been. Garry Brown, Managing Director of Bondgate IT, discussed the incident […]
Windows Server 2016 End of Life: What It Means for Your Business and How to Prepare
Most growing businesses have a server that everyone has quietly agreed not to think about. It runs the line of business application, the shared drives, or the database finance leans on at month end. It has been steady for years, so it sits in the comms room doing its job while attention goes to the things that feel more urgent. In a lot of UK organisations, that server is running Windows Server 2016, and on 12 January 2027 Microsoft stops supporting it.
Six Years After Redcar: What Actually Changes When the Systems Go Down
The BBC’s new podcast, Cyber Hack – The Conti Files, revisits the 2020 Redcar and Cleveland Council attack. Our Managing Director Garry Brown went on BBC Radio Tees to talk about what has changed since, and what hasn’t.
Cyber Insurance Renewal Checklist
47 questions every SME should answer before cyber insurance renewal. Identify gaps in MFA, backups, EDR and compliance before your renewal form arrives.
Why Bondgate IT Doesn’t Run Its Own SOC
We could build a Security Operations Centre. We’ve chosen not to. Here’s why structural independence between your MSP and your SOC protects your business better than the alternative, and why “we own everything end-to-end” is starting to look less like a strength and more like a conflict of interest.