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Press Release | Government backing for consultancy cyber team

We're delighted to have been appointed on the NCSC Certified Cyber Security Consultancy scheme. Read our official press release here.

24 Hours in a Security Operations Centre (SOC)

Originally published in the London Business Matters magazine (LCCI). Read the second of our three part cyber essentials column...

Future of Work - The Intentional Workplace

The questions we are asking ourselves about organisational culture in the Future of Work as companies increasingly become a blended environment with staff at home and in the office.

For the last 25 years we've helped over 300 companies improve their businesses

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Student experience at the heart of Abertay’s digital transformation journey
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Age UK County Durham is the principal voluntary organisation working for older people, their families and carers throughout County Durham.
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Architecting a flexible practice
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ARHAG is a housing association which focuses on housing refugees and migrants from all countries and continents.
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Formed in 1974, the Council comprises the former Urban Districts of Hucknall, Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Sutton-in-Ashfield, together with the parishes of Annesley, Felley and Selston. The Council's long term vision is for 'A regenerated and thriving Ashfield'.
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Aurelius are a multi-asset manager with activities across Europe.
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Project Management for ERP success - and beyond
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Research Portal
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A Collaborative Hub
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Simple, Secure Remote Working
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Cartrefi Conwy is an independent not-for-profit Registered Social Landlord (RSL). They formed as result of the transfer of around 3,800 homes from Conwy County Borough Council in 2008.
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Firm prepares for long term gain with IT Strategy
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The United Kingdom’s leading Electrical Wholesale Network with almost twice as many distribution outlets as their nearest competitor.
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Creating Enterprise, part of Cartrefi Conwy, is an award-winning building and maintenance contractor based in North Wales.
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Crest Nicholson has been building new homes for over 50 years and is firmly established as a leading developer with a passion for not just building homes, but creating vibrant sustainable communities.
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Reducing Cost, Increasing Performance Looking after Legacy Applications Global Automation drives Efficiency
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Manufacturing efficiency improvements
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A Citizen Portal the efficient way
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Durham University is a world-class University providing high-quality teaching and learning, along with advanced research and partnering with business
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Business Education Partners Enhancing the student experience Project management: reducing risk and delivering on time Streamlining the desktop experience
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East Lothian Housing Association (ELHA) was founded in 1988 with the aim of providing good quality affordable housing within East Lothian.
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IT Strategy supports growth Elddis ups a gear with flash performance injection
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Enva delivers outstanding hazardous waste solutions and expert, tailored water services.
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Keeping Business Flowing
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Supporting Evergreen Garden Care to grow Keeping Evergreen Garden Care fertile 24/7 with global support Successful programme management at Evergreen Garden Care
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Established in London in 2004, today Exponent is one of the UK’s leading private equity firms, investing in companies headquartered in the UK and Ireland with enterprise values between £100-400m.
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Gateway Housing Association is an ambitious housing association with 3,000 homes in the heart of London’s East End. Gateway operates mostly in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets but also have some properties in Hackney and Newham.
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Lighting up African communities
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A down-to-earth, innovative, friendly and professional architectural practice with offices in Birmingham and London. Underpinning the practice is an approach rooted in exploring ideas of how places and buildings can make peoples lives better.
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The UK's largest quoted residential property owner, managing over 12,000 homes. Their portfolio spans a broad range of assets from modest terraced houses to major development sites.
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Hawkins\Brown is an award-winning architectural practice of over 250 architects, interior designers, urban designers, and researchers, with studios in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Los Angeles.
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Shared values drive long-term partnership
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Highly available messaging Protecting and preserving critical emails
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Becoming Outrageously Brilliant
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The trust provides a very broad range of community services (including therapies), community and inpatient mental health services, learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addictions services to people living in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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Innisfree Housing Association is a publicly accountable, independent charity which strives to achieve a continuing improvement in the quality of housing services.
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Intelect provide engineering services to some of the leading operators in the food processing, utilities, renewables and pharmaceuticals sectors.
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Interoute’s cloud based services connects 30 countries, 102 cities, 12 Data Centres, 31 colocation centres and has connections to an additional 140 partner owned data centres
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System and process gap analysis Live Data Integration
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James Fisher and Sons plc is a leading provider of specialist services to the marine, oil and gas and other high assurance industries worldwide.
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Streamlining Business Processes for a Cutting Edge Refrigeration Solutions Provider
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Cyber Essentials: The springboard to your security journey
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John McAslan + Partners is a leading architectural and design practice based in London and Edinburgh. Their extensive portfolio of award-winning projects in the UK and overseas includes infrastructure, commercial, residential, education, cultural, heritage, urban design, and landscape sectors.
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Creating a master plan for future work
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Drilling contractor drills-down its data
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A fast growing top 10 UK housing and construction company. Keepmoat design, build, refurbish and regenerate places to improve economic and social outcomes for people.
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Formerly Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds Beckett is a public university located in Leeds, with around 28,000 students from over 100 countries.
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Make is an award-winning international architectural practice with a reputation for design excellence.
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Cutting Costs, Not Trees Analytics provide key student progression insights
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MHT Technology Ltd is a leading supplier of bulk inventory management and stock reconciliation systems to the Oil, Gas and Petro-chemical business.
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Partnering Pragmatically
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Navigator is the UK’s largest independent bulk liquid storage provider.
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IT solutions for market domination
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Resilient IT for regional airport Airport Analytics
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Virtual infrastructure health check
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The largest university in the North of England with more than 30,000 students from over 130 countries.
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Where security is paramount
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Workflow automation
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Gold Standard Security for People’s Postcode Lottery
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Specialists in the creation of new neighbourhoods and the revitalisation of old ones, Pollard Thomas Edwards combines design talent, commercial acumen and social commitment to lift everyday places out of the ordinary.
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Aligning port IT to the business
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Established in 1909, PWS is a fifth-generation family business and the market leader in the design and supply of quality kitchen components and bespoke worksurfaces to manufacturers, retailers and installers.
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Quorn Foods Virtualised Estate Ringing in the changes at Quorn
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Working in Partnership
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Navigating an ocean of data at the click of a button
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The major UK pension administration company operating for the last 45 years, and now manage pension schemes and manage assets in excess of £20bn
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Workflow automation in a safety-critical environment
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Founded in 1970, SGP are one of the UK’s leading architectural practices with offices in London, Birmingham, Leicester, Leeds and Solihull. Placed in the ‘Top 100’ practices by the Architects’ Journal and previously listed as one of the ‘Best Small Companies to work for’ by The Sunday Times.
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Keeping connected
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A group of market-leading companies that combines capabilities to deliver the UK’s most diverse range of marketing solutions and book publishing services.
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Manufacturer of high quality bespoke home grown fencing, pallet and packaging timbers, enhanced with the very latest milling and processing equipment.
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Employability portal helps Teesside students get ahead of the competition An agile approach for rapid PC deployment
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Tailored selection process ensures best-fit for business technology
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Investing in cyber resilience to provide safe, secure homes to customers and their data
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Mobile Protection from Bears
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Founded in 1927, the University of Hull is one of the oldest and most respected universities in the UK, known for providing a first-class education and rewarding life experience to students from all over the world.
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Widely regarded as one of the UK's leading enterprise universities; famous for its links with industry, commerce and the arts.
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The University of Sunderland has one base in the City of Sunderland, in the North East of England, and another base in London. In 2013, the combined student population at the University was 15,152 students.
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A University with a national and international reputation for excellence, innovation and regional engagement, making a major contribution to the economic, social and cultural development of Northern Ireland.
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Improving the student experience at the University of York
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24 hours a day, 365 days a year VARO safely supplies fuels to local and international customers where they are needed, and when they are needed.
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Westmorland operate services with a difference, focusing on local produce, community and family heritage.
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WilkinsonEyre is one of the world's leading architectural practices with a portfolio of national and international award-winning projects.
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Transition planning and execution for a complex carve-out
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Building resilience for critical hazardous material handling

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