by Alan Bryant | Jun 22, 2026 | Tech Update
As an IT director, you’ve probably had this moment. A project deadline is agreed in a meeting, and you can already see the dependency issues no one else has spotted. A department assumes a change is minor, when you know it touches five systems and introduces...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 22, 2026 | Tech Update
There’s an interesting disconnect happening in the business world right now. Most IT leaders say data security is their number one concern when upgrading or modernizing systems. In fact, nearly seven in ten rank it at the top of the list. Yet only around a...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 20, 2026 | IT Management
Someone leaves the company on a Friday. By Monday, their email account is disabled, and their laptop is back in the pile.What nobody checks is their login to the project management tool they signed up for in Q3, the cloud storage folder they shared with a contractor,...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 15, 2026 | IT Management
The most time-consuming ticket in your queue is rarely a hardware failure. It’s the PC infection that started when a user installed something they shouldn’t have been able to. Or it’s the broken configuration left behind after someone changed a setting IT can’t...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 15, 2026 | Tech Update
AI is showing up in more corners of the business, often without much ceremony. Sometimes it’s a new feature inside a platform you already use. Sometimes it’s a team exploring a tool that promises to save time. Either way, it becomes part of daily workflows...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 15, 2026 | Tech Update
Have you ever accidentally left a Teams meeting? You go to click something, maybe Share to present your screen, and suddenly you’re staring at your desktop while everyone else is still mid-conversation. Awkward. For a long time, that was a perfectly believable...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 10, 2026 | Cybersecurity
It’s a statistic that sends a shiver down the backs of SME owners, managers and employees. According to the FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report, business email compromise (BEC) cost US businesses more than $3 billion last year.This makes it one of the...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 8, 2026 | Tech Update
Shadow IT has a way of creeping into environments. A team signs up for a tool to move faster. Someone connects an integration to save time. A department starts using an AI service because it makes their workflow easier. None of it is usually announced, and none...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 8, 2026 | Tech Update
If you use Windows every day for work, I’ve got a question for you. What’s the one app you couldn’t live without? Microsoft’s latest marketing says the answer should be Microsoft Copilot. They’re calling it the number one productivity app in Windows 11, ahead of...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 5, 2026 | Cybersecurity
You click a link, sign in, approve the MFA prompt, and get on with your day. Completely unaware that someone else just logged into your account at the same moment.That scenario surprises many businesses, particularly those that rely on multi-factor authentication...
