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Your finance team accidentally deletes a crucial folder in SharePoint. Weeks later, during an audit, you discover it contained vital tax documents. Microsoft’s retention window has closed, and there’s no backup. The data is gone – along with your peace of mind. Or you arrive at work to find your entire Microsoft 365 environment locked by ransomware. Emails, OneDrive files, Teams chats—all encrypted. The attackers demand...
Don’t Leave Your Data to Chance: Why Microsoft 365 Still Needs Managed Backup
It’s 3:00 a.m. and your IT team’s phone lights up. A critical alert flashes across the screen. Systems are slowing down. Files are being encrypted. You don’t know yet if it’s a glitch — or a breach. This is the nightmare scenario many UK businesses faced last year. A recent Home Office report states that...
Why MDR is Gaining Momentum In 2025 – And why it’s now Essential to Your Business.
Understand how to improve your security posture with an SCC delivered SIEM Pathfinder using Microsoft tools
How To Solve The AI Use Case Dilemma
Public sector HR teams are under pressure—managing rising demand, limited budgets, and shifting workplace expectations. But what if technology could help leaders deliver more human services, not less? AI can lift administrative burdens, streamline employee support, and free HR professionals to focus on meaningful, people-centred work. Workplace Challenges The AI Opportunity When used responsibly, AI...
People-first AI: Humanising HR in the Public Sector
When you hear “security posture,” do you think of it as a business accelerator -or just another compliance headache? The truth is, your security posture should be the foundation that lets your business move faster, innovate safely, and focus on what matters most: growth, customer experience, and operational excellence. Security: The Unsung Driver of Efficiency...
Why Your Security Posture Should Be Creating Greater Business Efficiency
Understand how to improve your security posture with an SCC delivered SIEM Pathfinder using Microsoft tools
The NHS’s Bet on Technology — and Why It Needs to Pay Off
Discover why prompt engineering skills are critical in the AI era. Learn what prompt engineering is, why it's essential, and how to build these skills.
Adapting to Tomorrow’s Threat Landscape: AI’s Role in Cybersecurity and Security Operations in 2024
Trade in your existing video devices and future-proof your collaboration with AI-driven clarity and next-gen Teams-certified performance. Hybrid work demands technology that keeps everyone seen, heard, and included.With SCC and HP | Poly, you can upgrade your meeting rooms with intelligent, future-ready video conferencing solutions — while saving up to 25% through our exclusive trade-in...
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F5 has confirmed that a sophisticated cyber attack led to unauthorised access within its corporate network. According to the company’s official statement (https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000154696), a threat actor gained entry to F5’s internal development environment and accessed portions of source code relating to BIG-IP and F5OS products. F5 has stated that there is no evidence of compromise...
Security Alert: F5 Confirms Breach of Internal Systems
The reality check: resilience is an operating goal, not a shopping list If you’re waiting for magic genie or a blank cheque to fix security, you’ll wait forever. Resilience isn’t the absence of incidents; it’s the ability to keep operating when systems fail or attackers get through. The good news: you don’t need a genie...
How to increase cyber resilience and reduce risk without a genie, a lamp, or an unlimited budget.
Move from monitoring to fixing Dashboards don’t fix outages – people do. And unless observability changes that equation, you’re not building resilience, you’re just watching failure in high definition. The point of observability isn’t to see more, it’s to fix more. Observability has to become an operational discipline, connecting telemetry to outcomes, fixing faster, smarter...
Observability as a strategic advantage
European technology solutions and services provider SCC has been named as a supplier on NHS Shared Business Services’ (NHS SBS) new Digital Workplace Solutions 2 framework, further extending its digital services offering to health and care providers across the UK. The framework, valued at up to £500 million, provides NHS and public sector organisations with...