Given the majority of all successful cyber attacks involve some form of human error, we explore whether you can really scare people into better online security It’s often assumed you can change the way people behave using fear. The fear of making a mistake or creating the security issue [...]

Here at ITPS we are continually reinforcing our commitment to continuous training and support, particularly for newly-promoted staff, and we recently teamed up with a specialist in emotional intelligence coaching. Our 130-strong team services a national client base, and when a series of recent promotions from technical to consultancy [...]

We live and work in an age where cyber threats can come from anywhere in the world, at any time, in any guise. While cyber security at its highest level can be complex, the core principles are simple.  The UK’s Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, summed it up when she [...]

Are you really prepared for a business interruption? We have almost 20 years’ experience of delivering managed IT solutions and services, including business continuity and disaster recovery strategies, and we often find there is one factor that clients overlook, and that is if your people can’t work, neither can your [...]

The latest report from industry experts Gartner shows that cloud services will continue to drive global IT spend, as increasing numbers of organisations move towards having IT delivered as a service. The key market drivers include big providers such as Microsoft and Google steering businesses to consume more cloud, backed [...]

If you think ransomware, crypto-mining and form-jacking don’t concern you and your business, you need to come to our next cyber security event to find out the truth. Delegates at our regular cyber-security briefings are often completely taken aback when we use real life examples to explain the ever-changing threat [...]

How would you cope against a cyber attack? Cyber attacks are not unusual, they happen every day to organisations just like yours. Join our free security briefing event and listen to experts: Discuss the latest threats Outline real live cases to learn from Show you how to manage the risk [...]

Making predictions about IT industry trends is not easy but there is one thing we can be absolutely certain about, and that is that the number of cyber security attacks will continue to rise throughout 2019. A report from the World Economic Forum, which surveyed 12,000 business leaders in 140 [...]

Delegates at our regular security events often tell us we have opened their eyes to the true scale of the cyber threats they face. If we tell you that as part of a full managed services contract with one of our clients, which involved a free trial of a new [...]

Media headlines that scream 'Cyber attack cripples NHS' could have you thinking that cyber-attacks happen rarely, or only to large, high profile organisations. But you would be wrong.

Kevin Flint, Unified Communications Team Leader takes six month sabbatical to backpack around the globe. Read more about his story.

The National Cyber Security Centre has issued its first legal threat report to law firms, showing that £11m of client cash has been stolen in cybercrime over the last 12 months, and that 60% of law firms reported an information security incident in the same period – an annual increase of 20%.

We are all accustomed to having systems and data at our fingertips, 24/7 but when the situation changes, it's not just an inconvenience, it can also cost your business thousands of pounds.

As IT becomes increasingly complex, and cyber-attacks and ransomware situations continue to make the headlines, organisations from SMEs to large corporates are choosing to offload the burden of managing their IT infrastructure to a trusted partner who can deliver IT as a service.

Who's keeping your business safe?

Andy Hunter, Technical Director, explains how health and social care organisations will benefit from the new Health and Social Care Network

Team efforts from ITPS help Great North Air Ambulance take flight.