IT Asset Management: When to move beyond spreadsheets
When a software audit sends an IT team searching through invoices, emails and old exports, the problem is no longer an untidy spreadsheet. It is whether the organisation can rely on the information behind its technology decisions. The same issue appears when an incident involves an unmanaged device or a renewal exposes an unexplained licensing […]
Cloud Infrastructure: What IT teams should compare
Moving infrastructure to the cloud is no longer an unusual technology decision. The more difficult question is what the resulting environment should actually look like. An organisation might use public cloud infrastructure for new applications while retaining legacy workloads elsewhere. It might favour managed platform services over virtual machines, operate across more than one cloud […]
Email Signature Management: Governance, compliance and brand control for IT teams
When your company’s registered address changes, can you update every email signature without asking employees to copy and paste a new footer? Email signature management controls how signatures are created, approved, deployed and updated across an organisation. For IT teams, the key questions are simple: who can change the content, who approves it and whether […]
Learn from BBC Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy at the Elevate.Tech Summit
The Elevate.Tech Summit is taking place in November, where top speakers such as Joe Tidy, BBC News Cyber Correspondent & Author, will be sharing his experience and knowledge! 10th November 2026 | Hilton London Canary Wharf Fully funded attendance – Book Now! (Places are limited) Keynote Seminar: “From LulzSec to Scattered Spider: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet” Gone is the […]
Ransomware Protection: Why tested recovery time matters
Your backups completed overnight. But could you restore a critical service before the disruption becomes unacceptable? Ransomware protection needs preventive controls and a tested recovery plan. A successful backup proves that a copy exists; it does not prove that the organisation can restore a usable business service within its recovery target. Attackers may also target […]
Multi-factor authentication: A practical passkey migration guide
A passkey migration starts with three questions: which applications support passkeys, what happens to legacy systems, and how will users recover access? For security leaders reviewing multi-factor authentication (MFA), those answers should shape the pilot, supplier shortlist and eventual retirement of passwords. Where passkeys fit into multi-factor authentication Passkeys replace passwords, not the need to […]
Managed Detection and Response (MDR): What buyers should expect
Covering one analyst position around the clock takes 168 hours a week: 4.2 full-time equivalents at 40 hours each, before leave or training. But Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is not simply a way to extend monitoring outside office hours. MDR combines security technology with analysts who monitor, hunt, investigate and take agreed action. The […]
Phishing Simulation Best Practices: How to test employees without creating a blame culture
A successful phishing simulation should not demonstrate how easy it is to trick employees. It should make the organisation harder to trick next time. As explored in our earlier Cyber Security Awareness Training: What IT Teams Should Compare buyer’s guide, effective security awareness is increasingly focused on changing behaviour rather than simply demonstrating that employees have completed […]
Managed Cloud Hosting vs In-House Infrastructure: Cost, control and operating model
Running infrastructure in-house gives IT teams control. It also gives them responsibility for almost everything that keeps that infrastructure running. Hardware, operating systems, monitoring, patching, backup, security, capacity, resilience and incident response all require expertise and time. That makes the decision between in-house infrastructure and managed cloud hosting more complicated than comparing a server purchase with a […]
October 2026 is Cloud Infrastructure Month on IT Briefing – Make sure your solutions are part of it!
Each month on IT Briefing we’re shining the spotlight on a different part of the IT and cyber security markets – and in October we’re focussing on Cloud Infrastructure solutions. It’s all part of our ‘Recommended’ editorial feature, designed to help IT and security buyers find the best products and services available today. So, if you’re […]