How we think about technology, integration, and security.
Field notes from running and securing the IT around production. No vendor hype — just the thinking that determines whether technology actually works for a business over time.
ThinkingThe Door You Can't See
Privacy malfunction where you least expect it.
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ThinkingThe 24-Hour NIS2 Reporting Deadline Is Real, but It Is Only the First of Three
Most of what has been written about NIS2 reporting, including some of what we published in this series' early days, treats 24 hours as the whole story. It is a third of it. Here is the full clock, and the uncomfortable assumption ticking underneath it.
ThinkingUnderstanding NIS2: How to Tell if Europe's New Cybersecurity Directive Applies to Your Business
Scope has rules: establishment, sector and size. The honest test for whether Europe's cybersecurity directive reaches your business, directly or through your customers.
ThinkingSupplier Risk Under NIS2: Could Your Business Be Liable for Third-Party Non-Compliance?
You are not responsible for a supplier's compliance. You are responsible for having managed the risk of relying on them. Where the line actually sits.
ThinkingWhy Default Microsoft 365 Settings Fail a NIS2 Audit
The demand will come from your biggest customer before it comes from any regulator. Here is what their questionnaire will find.
ThinkingThe Hard Work Behind a Factory of Magic Wands
The wand is real. The demos work. But between owning a wand and knowing how to make one sits all the work nobody talks about: the factory behind the magic.
ThinkingOne Click From a Full Stop
Your office and your factory grew onto one network nobody designed — and the question is now arriving from outside, in writing. Fixing it starts with seeing, not changing.
ThinkingThe Green Dot: Why a Dot On a Glassboard Beats Every Dashboard Ever Built.
Same scales, same data. Change how you record it and everything changes.
FounderWhat a Spy in The Paint and Green Dots Have in Common
A hack, pots of paint, green dots on a whiteboard. Why understanding comes before tech.
FounderThe Part of the Story Nobody Talks About
A business that sold for hundreds of millions of pounds. The part of the story nobody talks about, and why IT was the first thing they invested in, before finance, before HR, before everything else.
Field StoriesNobody Drew the Boundary Between Your Office and Your Factory
The gap between your office systems and your production systems is where downtime hides.
ThinkingWhy Automation Projects Fail Before They Start
Most businesses try to automate too early. The problem isn't ambition, it's sequence.
ThinkingYour Cybersecurity Dashboard Is Green. That Doesn't Mean You're Secure.
The difference between security that looks right and security that actually works.
GuidesWT$ is DNS (and Why Should You Care)?
The invisible system that controls where your emails are delivered, whether your website loads, and how the outside world finds you online — and most businesses have no idea who manages it.
GuidesThe Cyber Security Bill Nobody's Talking About
A piece of legislation moving through Parliament — the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill — will change how businesses think about IT security, and most business owners have never heard of it.
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