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Here is a simple question that trips up most business owners: where is your company's data right now? Not roughly, but exactly. Which provider holds it, in which country, under whose laws, and who is allowed to reach it? Most people cannot answer, and assume that because their files are "in the cloud" and the provider is a household name, it is all fine. Sometimes it is. Often the honest answer is that nobody in the business actually knows, which is an uncomfortable place to

More and more UK businesses are being handed a question they cannot easily dodge. A client wants proof of Cyber Essentials before signing. An insurer asks for it before quoting. A public sector buyer makes ISO 27001 alignment a condition of bidding. The badge has quietly become a ticket to do business, and the companies that cannot show one are losing work to those that can. The catch is that earning these certifications means putting a set of security controls in place and k

Securing ISO 27001 certification involves the formal acknowledgment by an independent and accredited certification body (CB) that an...