Blogs & Insights
From AI Experimentation to Real Business Outcomes: Our Takeaways from Microsoft Frontier Tour London
This week, Pete Graham, Microsoft Business Manager at Espria, attended Microsoft Frontier Tour London alongside members of the wider Espria team to hear directly from Microsoft leaders, partners and customers about the future of artificial intelligence. Having attended Microsoft’s AI Tour last year, Pete was interested to see how the conversation had evolved over the past 12 months. What became clear throughout the day was that the discussion around AI has matured significantly. A year ago, many organisations were still asking what AI could do. Today, the focus is increasingly on how to adopt it…
Your guide to leveraging NCE pricing to get the best value
Renewing your Microsoft Licensing Agreement is an opportunity to align your IT strategy with your business goals. It allows you to take advantage of the latest technologies, optimise costs, and ensure compliance with industry standards. While this might seem straightforward at first glance, to achieve the best value and biggest discounts, it’s often more complex than it appears and navigating the renewalprocess requires careful planning. In this Blog we will walk through what you need to know about the new Microsoft Licensing rules,when to get the best value from your renewal, and how to review…
State Of Ransomware Report 2024
The fifth Sophos annual study of the real-world ransomware experiences of organizations around the globe explores the full victim journey, from root cause through to severity of attack, financial impact, and recovery time. Fresh new insights combined with learnings from our previous studies reveal the realities facing businesses today as well as how the impact of ransomware has evolved over the last five years. This year’s report also incorporates brand new areas of study, including exploration of ransom demands vs. ransom payments, together with a heightened focus on the impact an organization’s revenue has on…
Loving your customers with AI, cybersecurity and peace of mind with MSP support
2024 has marked a massive shift for SME IT needs, as creating an appropriate and optimised business strategy has become an increasingly difficult challenge for business owners and IT operators nationwide.
Protect your student data from continued ransomware attacks, says Espria
With ransomware rates still high for education organisations, better security oversight and orchestration is needed across UK schools.
Fortify and Reassure with Compliance and Cybersecurity Synergy
With new cyber threats emerging, businesses will need to develop a seamless and blended approach to cyber and compliance for strategic success.
UK businesses cannot continue risking reputation with shoddy security, says Espria
Sophos’ 2024 Threat Report recently highlighted ransomware as the biggest existential cyber threat to small businesses. While cyberattacks on large companies and government agencies may receive more news coverage, Sophos reported that SMB’s are generally more vulnerable to cybercriminals and suffer more proportionally from the results of a breach.
Peace of mind: Cloud is key in scaling systems to your business needs
Meeting the demands of the modern-day SMB is one of the challenges facing many business leaders and IT operators today. Traditional, office-based infrastructure was fine up until the point where greater capacity was needed than those servers could deliver, vendor support became an issue, or the needs of a hybrid workforce weren’t being met. In the highly competitive SMB space, maintaining and investing in a robust and efficient IT infrastructure can be one of the ways to stay ahead of competitors.
UK SMEs should prioritise creating disaster recovery plans for cloud data to ensure business continuity and prevent data loss amid rising cyber-attacks
Cybercrime is a significant issue for businesses of all sizes in the UK. Although we usually hear more about cybersecurity incidents impacting large businesses, smaller businesses are also a target
Security concerns, compliance issues, and the power of AI are top priorities for SMBs, according to Espria
Espria, a leading provider of digital workspace solutions, recently hosted the second webinar in their Optimise 2024 series. The webinar covered achieving peace of mind with IT and featured discussions with some of their key solutions partners, Xerox and Mimecast.
Don’t let your company down! C-Suite executives cannot afford to be the weakest security link, say Espria
In 2023, we saw significant advancements in cybersecurity. Whilst the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict opened the doors to cyber-attacks across many industries, it also revealed more about cybercriminals, and in particular, their organisational structures.