A Guide to Right-Sized Cyber Security All too often, we see CISOs taking a ‘product-centric’ approach to cyber security. By that we mean identifying a need, then simply buying the most expensive, best-in-class solution – often precisely because it’s the latest-and-greatest. Except that’s not true. There is no one solution that suits everyone. Instead, we want to introduce and encourage a risk based, right-sizing approach to cyber security. Explore Service
Bringing the IT Experience to Life As we explained in our first guide, there’s a growing awareness in our industry about the importance of the employee experience. Having looked at the ‘why’ of improving your people’s IT experience, this follow-up paper gets into the ‘how’, introducing new technology, metrics, people and thinking to create our Experience 360™ service. Explore Service
CIO Report 2022 Building on the success of the 2021 survey, we reached out to CIOs and other IT leaders in organisations across the UK to get a sense of the challenges they’re facing such as hybrid working, and how they see things developing over the coming months. Explore Service
CIO Report 2023 As CIOs and IT and Security leaders’ roles rapidly become more diverse, evidence from our report expressed that cutting through the noise is a shared challenge for many professionals in the IT and Cyber space. Continuing to build on the priorities and shared challenges of the UK mid-market, explore our yearly report below. Explore Service
Deploying The User Experience In our previous guides, we’ve set out the background to creating a step change in your people’s IT experience. This third and final guide offers a glimpse into what living and working with h Experience 360™ looks like in practice, what differences you can expect to see from day one, and where the experience journey can take you over time. Explore Service
Dora Compliance Checklist Prepare for DORA compliance! The enforcement date for DORA regulation is fast approaching – January 17, 2025. Financial institutions across the EU must be prepared for the upcoming changes, using tools like a DORA compliance checklist, as the act seeks to improve the digital resilience of financial entities against cyber threats. Explore Service
Keeping up with endpoint threats Ever-growing cyber threats are a concern for everyone. But for IT leaders, the pressure has been ramped up to a new level. Tackling this can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t need to be. Let’s go back to basics and start with endpoint protection. Explore Service
Successful IT & Cyber Projects Guide Cyber Security and IT projects often fail due to unclear objectives, unrealistic schedules, inadequate resources, poor project management, and stakeholder disengagement. With 75% of business and IT executives thinking their software projects will fail, we dissect why so many projects are at risk of failing and how to overcome these alarmingly high stats. Explore Service
The Ultimate Guide to SLA’s & XLA’s An Experience Led Approach is one of the IT industry’s hottest topics – and one we’ve been talking about here at Acora for longer than most. In this guide, we’ve set out some of the background to the XLA, how it differs from and adds to SLA metrics and adoption dimensions of our own Experience Led Approach™, built in by design. Explore Service
Featured Security Testing and Compliance Get a clear understanding of the threats that face you, the effectiveness of your defenses and your ability to respond to an attack. Become Always Audit Ready™ Explore Service
New Cyber Incident Baseline and Readiness Baseline your organisation's estate by assessing the environment using situational awareness and surfacing the weaknesses that matter most in the eyes of an attacker. Explore Service
Cyber Essentials As a fully trained and licensed Cyber Essentials certification body, Acora can help you implement and achieve the government-backed Cyber Essentials Assurance Scheme. Explore Service
Cyber Essentials Plus Licensed by IASME as a Cyber Essentials Plus certification body, we help organisations of any size achieve a good baseline level of security that meets the requirements of the scheme. Explore Service
Cyber Attack Readiness Assessment The Cyber Attack Readiness Assessment is a multi-tier, multi-level assessment that touches every aspect within the organisation; from security awareness to cyber incident response. Explore Service
Penetration Testing Service Our penetration testing and ethical hacking services are expertly conducted with the primary aim of uncovering potential vulnerabilities that could consequentially lead to a data breach. Explore Service
GDPR Compliance Assessment A GDPR compliance review takes an in-depth look at how personal data is held and processed, the maturity of security policies, and the infrastructure architecture, to identify areas that are at risk of non-compliance. Explore Service
Application Security Testing Our Application Security Testing service enables you to quickly deploy a scalable application security program across your entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Explore Service
ISO 27001 ISO 27001 provides a framework for strengthening and managing the security of your information and systems. Acora help highlight the measures required to achieve ISO 27001 compliance. Explore Service