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Teams or Slack: Making the Right Collaboration Platform Choice for Your Business

Friday, 23 January 2026 by Viki Asimov

Most organisations choose collaboration platforms by comparing features. Then wonder why adoption fails. Here’s what we’ve learned implementing these platforms across UK businesses: the organisations that succeed aren’t the ones who chose the “right” platform by feature comparison. They’re the ones who committed completely and forced the change. Microsoft Teams reached 360 million monthly active users by

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Zero Trust in the Kitchen: Why Your Fryer Needs a Different Network Than Your Guests

Friday, 23 January 2026 by Raphael Waller

Secure Network Architecture for Restaurants

Can a compromised smart fryer really take down your payment system? It sounds absurd, but on a flat network, it is a technical certainty. In 2026, the greatest threat to restaurant reliability isn’t a targeted hacker in a hoodie. It is the flat network architecture that allows a guest’s infected smartphone or an unpatched IoT

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When Client Campaigns Leak: Protecting Creative IP in the Digital Age

Wednesday, 21 January 2026 by Pratik Patel

Protecting your IP for your Creative Agency

How vulnerable are creative agencies to cyber attacks targeting valuable client intellectual property? Extremely vulnerable. Your agency’s most valuable assets aren’t sitting in the studio. They’re on your servers. Unreleased campaigns, brand strategies in development, and client briefs marked “confidential” represent millions invested in marketing and months of creative work. 43% of businesses experienced breaches in the past year.

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The POS Cyber Security Breach That Closed 300 Restaurants: Lessons for Hospitality

Wednesday, 03 December 2025 by Raphael Waller

Restaurant POS Security-breach PCI compliance guide

Could a single compromised password bring your restaurant’s transaction processing to a halt during Saturday night service? It happened to nearly 300 restaurants in January 2023 when a ransomware attack forced Yum! Brands to close KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell locations for an entire day. Your POS terminals process hundreds of card payments during

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AI vs AI: When Criminals and Defenders Both Weaponize Machine Learning

Tuesday, 02 December 2025 by Sagi

AI vs AI - When Cyber Criminals and Defenders both weaponize machine learning

Can you defend against an attack that rewrites itself faster than your security team can respond? Cardonet has been looking after clients’ IT for more than 25 years. In that time the security threats have changed constantly, but this feels different. AI has moved from being a “nice to have” innovation to the engine behind

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The Access Control Crisis: Managing Identity When Teams Double Every Quarter

Friday, 21 November 2025 by Raphael Waller

Access Control Crisis and Managing Identity

Your Series A just closed. You’ve hired 15 people in six weeks. Your engineer who left last month still has AWS access. Your CTO doesn’t know who can see customer payment data. Sound familiar? Picture this scenario at a fast-growing London fintech start-up. Monday morning – The operations lead gets a Slack message. “Can’t access GitHub.”

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