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What the current global crisis means for UK businesses and why the lessons of Covid still apply.
What we’re doing and what we think you should do
We’ve developed a FREE Business Resilience and Cyber Audit designed specifically for this moment: a structured review of infrastructure health, cybersecurity posture, business continuity planning, supply chain, vendor risk, and insurance readiness. The output is a clear 90-day action plan for your business and an IT risk summary you can take directly to your insurance broker.
Business leaders are watching the headlines and starting to worry, countries moving to a 4 day working week, WFH is increasingly becoming mandatory with rising energy costs, rising fuel costs, rising, oil costs, supply chain warnings, government cyber security alerts and the list goes on…
We have been here before. Not identically, but close enough to know what happens next. From our position as an MSSP working with UK businesses every day, the questions are already coming in. This article is our honest answer.
Energy Costs Are Rising And That Includes Your IT
Middle East disruption to oil and gas flows feeds directly into UK electricity prices, cloud hosting costs, and the running costs of every office and data centre. Businesses with ageing on-premise servers and legacy infrastructure are paying more than they need to. Cloud migration is no longer just a technology conversation in a volatile energy environment, reducing your physical footprint is also a cost management strategy.
The NCSC has issued explicit guidance advising UK organisations to review their security posture. The specific concern is state-sponsored and state-aligned actors targeting businesses indirectly through supply chains, SaaS platforms, and third-party vendors. A business does not need any connection to the Middle East to be in scope — it only needs to use a software tool that does.
During Covid, ransomware attacks increased by over 150% as organisations scrambled to enable remote working without hardening the infrastructure underneath it. That pattern is repeating. The NCSC has told businesses to act.
Hardware Lead Times Are Extending. Again.
During Covid, the global semiconductor shortage pushed IT hardware lead times beyond twenty weeks. The same conditions are forming now: disruption to global shipping routes, rising freight costs, and electronics manufacturers already reporting delays. If your hardware estate contains ageing assets likely to need replacement in the next twelve months, the time to act is before they fail not after.
The current situation is not identical to Covid. But structural dynamics of external shock, supply chain disruption, rising costs, heightened cyber risk, and freezing confidence are close enough that the 2020 playbook is relevant reading. The businesses that will navigate this well are those that know where they are exposed, take targeted action before problems materialise, and have partners already thinking about it on their behalf.
If you want to understand where your business stands right now and what to do about it
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