Cyber essentials without the theatre — Project team reviewing delivery plans around a meeting table

IT — 2025-10-21

Cyber essentials without the theatre

The controls that genuinely reduce risk for a 20 to 200 person business, and the ones vendors sell you anyway.

ITM3CA Security7 min read

Small organisations are not attacked by novel techniques. They are attacked by the same four routes, every time.

  • Phishing into an account without multi-factor authentication.
  • An unpatched device someone took home a year ago.
  • A shared admin login nobody has rotated.
  • A backup that has never been restored from.

Close those four and you have removed more risk than any dashboard you can buy.

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