Ed Crane

🚨 Budget cuts and skills gaps stop your IT team in its tracks – so let Stone Assist bespoke service packages keep you working. 🚨 💻 Managed mass-device deployments that fit seamlessly into your existing IT 📞 Stone Service Desk with 24/7 options, remote access and on-site presence   🌐 Wired and wireless infrastructure management and IaaS packages with hardware, licenses and support  🛡️ Cybersecurity to keep staff, data and customers safe and support your journey to Cyber Essentials certifications  📋 Strategic development, benchmarks, reports and recommendations  We’ll give your staff reliable access to the IT they need while staying cost-effective.  And because we’ve supported hundreds of businesses, we understand your challenges and requirements.  ➡️ Start your Stone Assist journey and you’ll be able to concentrate on the work that matters. https://obi41.nl/3w2es7x4  #ManagedServices #EnterpriseIT #EdTech #Cybersecurity #Infrastructure

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Are you a UK based MSP? Do you worry that there may be gaps in tenants' M365 security? Then talk to Elliot Wilkie and he'll give you back your calm.

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Your organisation deserves connectivity that meets your needs - today and tomorrow ✅ It's more important than ever to have a scalable, resilient and secure network in place as the backbone of your IT infrastructure 💻 We can help you get there 👉 https://lnkd.in/en44ZaPX #CloudAndInfrastructure #ITInfrastructure

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🔒 Boost your business security with multi-factor authentication! MFA adds a crucial layer of protection to your digital assets. Discover how simple it is to secure your SME in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and East Anglia. https://lnkd.in/eV_UbdHd #CyberSecurity #SMEs #MFA #BusinessSafety #UptechSecurity

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Why outsource your IT Support? Lets break it down: 👉Proactive Support 👉Increased Security  👉Scalability  👉Expertise We have the skills, resources and experience to ensure that your IT remains an enabler of your business’s success... Not just another headache 🚫 Still need more convincing? Let's talk more 📲 IT Manager Services Ltd #ITSupportKent #ITSupport #KentBusiness 

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From a national hit in Evening Standard discussing the Microsoft IT outage, to research coverage in Infosecurity Magazine, the coverage cup has been heating up in the past two weeks ☀️ Read more in our latest coverage cup blog 📰🏆 https://lnkd.in/eC7EfTVy

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Within today's collaborative work environments, Microsoft 365 stands as an invaluable suite of tools for increasing productivity and connectivity.   At Infinity IT we proactively manage our Clients Microsoft 365 estates. This is essential to ensure the security and optimal performance of our Clients cloud services and data.   Key aspects of our Proactive Management is the regular use of the Microsoft 365 Security Score, periodic reviews for optimisation, compliance and data protection.   Forge your productivity with Infinity IT #MS365 #InfinityIT #ITManagedService #Collaboration

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Tom S. has a great way of breaking down technical info into clear and practical instructions. If you'd like a quick guide to managing your patching process to make sure all of your security gaps are covered, come to our 30 minute webinar next week… #cyberuk #techuk #ciso

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Here at the Gartner #AIBSS summit today, one of the standouts so far has been Howard Dodd and Anthony Mullen keynote on enabling AI to safely but productively find rhythm within business. One use case that really stood out is something we’re seeing commonly across businesses we speak to - implementing real-time infrastructure cost containment to reuse, recycle or gain efficiencies. If you want to learn how to conquer that challenge, and use platform engineering to enhance agility, productivity & experience as well as becoming more cost effective, look into the impact Strong Network can have on your function going into 2025. #gartner #costcontainment #devops #platformengineering #cde

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How secure is your Microsoft 365 estate? Your business security has never been more important and attacks have never been so prevalent. Don't wait until it's too late. Get in touch and and get a free review.

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How secure is your Microsoft 365 estate? Your business security has never been more important and attacks have never been so prevalent. Don't wait until it's too late. Get in touch and and get a free review.

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Another resource to help #MSPs succeed more - the #CompTIACommunity MSP Guidebook, brought to life by Ian Groves. With almost 700 resources to access as part of CompTIA membership, there’s a huge amount of value on tap, never mind the in person and online events, interest groups, global communities, advisory councils, ISAO and security trustmark. All this plus globally recognised industry #certifications for tech staff.

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The reason that HPE and some other (mainly US) companies continue their practice of giving 0% annual discretionary increases to UK pensions earned before April 1997 is simply because the current UK law allows them to. Despite gaining support from an increasing number of MP's for action, letters returned to constituents from the previous Tory and current Labour minister contain the exact same DWP text blocks. DWP are unwilling to even think about changing the law to address the issue, but instead roll out a flawed view they've held for more than a decade : "... it is generally seen to be unreasonable to add liabilities to pension schemes that could not possibly have been considered in the funding assumptions that determined the contributions to be paid at the time." In the real world, by making a positive discretionary award in any year a scheme will have 'added liabilities which were not previously considered in the funding assumptions' . So the DWP view doesn't match the reality of what pension schemes actually do! Why might DWP be so fixed in their flawed view? Is it that they are trying to protect schemes which the government have to support from increased costs and those of us in company funded schemes are just seen as collateral damage? Our new Pensions minister needs to actually think about this (rather than continue to sign DWP letters) before she allows anyone to touch the funding surpluses that exist in many company schemes.

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Book a demo now, Zero Trust and Least privilege is the way to go, and you can get it from Morgan & Morgan. NG Managed Service provider of the year 2024

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This is a Global IT Outage today, affecting organisations of all sizes. if anyone needs help recovering from this please get in touch and we can see how we can help. #GlobalITOutage #CrowdStrike #ITSupport

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In this in-depth, multi-part series, Greg van der Gaast, Security Advisor to CDW, discusses strategies to help organisations not just ‘do cybersecurity’, but do business securely 🖥️🔒 In Part 13, Greg explores the Commercial domain; exploring all the commercial aspects of building and implementing successful security programmes, including whose job it is to handle the commercial aspects of security. https://hubs.ly/Q02tNvvD0 Let us know your thoughts, and look out for Part 14, coming soon. #CDW #CyberSecurity #DoingBusinessSecurely

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