A business continuity plan keeps you trading; a disaster recovery plan gets systems back. What North East organisations need, and where to start.
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.
An email gets opened. Ten minutes later, someone notices something’s wrong. What happens in the hour after that decides everything.
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.
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
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.