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The New M5 and M6 Macs Can Run Powerful AI On Device: Why That Matters for Data Security

The New M5 and M6 Macs Can Run Powerful AI On Device: Why That Matters for Data Security Apple announced new Macs this week, and the headline everywhere is raw power. The M6 chip in the Mac mini, and the M5 Ultra in the Mac Studio, described by Apple as its most powerful chip ever.…
Cisco Is Exiting MDM: Why Ivanti Probably Isn’t the Answer for Your Apple Fleet

Cisco Is Exiting MDM: Why Ivanti Probably Isn’t the Answer for Your Apple Fleet If you manage your Apple fleet with Cisco Meraki Systems Manager, you are now on a clock. Cisco is retiring the product. You can no longer buy or renew licences. The platform reaches full end of support in 2029. This is…
Platform SSO for Mac: A Practical Guide for Okta, Google and Microsoft 365 Businesses

Platform SSO for Mac: A Practical Guide for Okta, Google and Microsoft 365 Businesses Most people sign in to their Mac with one password and sign in to their work accounts with another. The two drift apart. Someone changes their cloud password, forgets to change the Mac password, and support tickets follow. Worse, the local…
Cyber Essentials vs ISO 27001: Which Does Your Fleet Actually Need?

Cyber Essentials vs ISO 27001: Which Does Your Fleet Actually Need? Businesses weighing up their security credentials almost always arrive at the same fork in the road. Should they pursue Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, or both? The two get mentioned in the same breath so often that they can seem interchangeable. They are not. They…
What Is Infrastructure as Code and Why It Is the Future of Apple Fleet Management

What Is Infrastructure as Code and Why It Is the Future of Apple Fleet Management Ask most businesses how their laptops and Macs get configured and the answer is some version of the same thing. Somebody in IT logs into a management console, clicks through a series of menus, sets up a policy, assigns it…
Why Windows Experts Struggle with Mac Management, and What That Costs Your Business

Why Windows Experts Struggle with Mac Management, and What That Costs Your Business This post is NOT an attack on Windows expertise. Windows administration is a deep, complex discipline. The skills required to manage Active Directory, Group Policy, Intune, Exchange and the rest of the Microsoft stack at scale take years to develop and are…
Why the 14-Day Patching Window Is No Longer Enough, And What UK Businesses Should Do Instead

Why the 14-Day Patching Window Is No Longer Enough, And What UK Businesses Should Do Instead Whoever wrote the Cyber Essentials 14-day patching requirement wrote it for a different threat landscape. In 2018 it made sense. The average time between a vulnerability being disclosed and attackers actively exploiting it was 756 days. Businesses had over…
Zero Touch Deployment for Windows and Mac: A Practical UK Business Guide

Zero Touch Deployment for Windows and Mac: A Practical UK Business Guide A new employee starts on Monday. They are based in Glasgow. Your IT team is in London. The MacBook and the Windows laptop ship directly from the supplier. By Tuesday morning the employee should have both devices configured, enrolled, compliant and ready to…
Managing the macOS Share Menu for NCSC Cyber Essentials

Managing the macOS Share Menu for NCSC Cyber Essentials Transitioning from legacy Restrictions to Blueprints If you’re currently working through the UK NCSC Cyber Security Essentials guidance for your fleet, there’s a good chance you’ve been looking at how to restrict the macOS context menu. Specifically, we’re talking about managing what appears when a user…
Jamf Pro vs Microsoft Intune for Apple Devices: An Honest Business Guide 2026

Jamf Pro vs Microsoft Intune for Apple Devices: An Honest Business Guide 2026 Every IT manager making an Apple MDM decision in 2026 hits the same question at some point: Jamf Pro or Microsoft Intune?The question sounds straightforward. The answer is not because both platforms are genuinely good, both have real limitations and the right…
Cyber Essentials vs Cyber Essentials Plus: Which Level Does Your Business Actually Need?

Cyber Essentials vs Cyber Essentials Plus: Which Level Does Your Business Actually Need? You have decided your business needs Cyber Essentials certification. You have read about the five controls, you understand the assessment process and you are ready to get started. Then you notice there are two levels, Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus and…
Cyber Essentials Checklist for UK Businesses: A Practical Guide

Cyber Essentials Checklist for UK Businesses: A Practical Guide Most businesses that fail their Cyber Essentials assessment do not fail because their security is terrible. They fail because they never checked exactly what theassessment required before submitting. The industry average first-time pass rate for Cyber Essentials is around 60%. With proper preparation that figure climbs…
Cyber Insurance for UK Businesses: What It Is, What It Costs and What Insurers Actually Require

Cyber Insurance for UK Businesses: What It Is, What It Costs and What Insurers Actually Require Your business gets hit by ransomware on a Tuesday morning. Ransomware has encrypted every file on your server. Your systems are down, your team cannot work or your clients are calling. You need a forensics firm, need a lawyer…
What is Okta and Why Does Your Business Need It?

What is Okta and Why Does Your Business Need It? Onboarding new staff manually is one of the most time-consuming and error-prone processes in a growing business. Before a new employee can do any work, someone has to create their email account, add them to Slack, grant them access to your project management tool, invite…
The Perfect Employee Onboarding Process

The Perfect Employee Onboarding Process: Getting New Hires Productive From Day One Picture this. It is Monday morning. Your new software engineer starts today. She is talented, expensive to hire and genuinely excited about the role. Her manager has been talking her up for weeks. She is remote, based in Porto, joining a London team,…
Bringing Mac into Your Business: How Windows and Mac Work Together

Bringing Mac into Your Business: How Windows and Mac Work Together For years, the assumption in business IT was straightforward: you standardise on Windows, you manage everything through Active Directory, and anything that does not fit gets left at the door. That assumption no longer holds. Across the UK, businesses are running Macs and Windows…
Cyber Essentials Certification for UK Businesses in 2026: The Complete Guide – With a Focus on Apple Fleets

Introduction Three weeks before your Cyber Essentials assessment, your IT Director gets a call from your assessor. Microsoft 365 MFA works correctly. Your Macs are enrolled, patched and ready. Firewall policies are in place. You have done the work. You are confident. Then the assessor asks about your project management tool. And your CRM. And…
Which Is Right Apple MDM for Your UK Business in 2026?

Jamf vs Intune vs Iru (Kandji) vs FleetDM vs Apple Business MDM: Which Is Right for Your UK Business in 2026? Introduction Picture this. Your IT Director sits down to do an Apple MDM comparison. She opens five browser tabs. One for Jamf one for Intune, for something called Iru that used to be called…
Apple Business: What It Is and What UK Businesses Need to Know

Apple Business: What It Is and What UK Businesses Need to Know Three weeks from now, Apple Business Manager will no longer exist. On March 24 2026, Apple announced Apple Business, a new all-in-one platform that replaces Apple Business Manager, Apple Business Essentials, and Apple Business Connect in one move. It launches on April 14…