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Zero trust security means no user, device or network is trusted by default. Here is what it means in practice, how to start, and how to test it.

A plain, ordered guide to the first hours and days after a ransomware attack: isolate, report, investigate, recover safely and decide on payment.

What Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus cost by company size in the UK, what the fee includes, and the extra costs most businesses forget to budget for.

Phishing simulation testing shows exactly who clicks and who reports, but NCSC and UK GDPR both set limits on how to run it fairly. Here is how the process works.

PSTI compliance bans default passwords and demands update transparency, but government testing shows compliant devices can still fail badly under real testing.

CHECK penetration testing is the NCSC’s accreditation for testers working on UK government and CNI systems. Here’s why it exists, who must use it, and how it stacks up against …

The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill never says the words penetration test, yet regulators will expect one. Here is the gap between the law and what it actually means for …

Cyber Essentials is a self-signed questionnaire. Cyber Essentials Plus is what happens when someone actually checks it. An honest look at what each proves, what CE+ tests, and who really …

Most incident response plans fail not because they’re badly written, but because nobody rehearsed them. Here’s what actually makes one survive a real breach.

The NCSC has warned about internet-exposed edge devices three times since April. The failures are basic. The problem is nobody owns fixing them.