Cyber Security for Modern Businesses
Protect your business from cyber threats — before they cause damage
iKORE delivers layered, proactive cyber security to protect your users, systems, and data from modern threats — without slowing your business down.
What You Get with
iKORE Cybersecurity
Advanced Threat
Protection
Detect and block malware, ransomware, and suspicious activity.
Email & Phishing
Protection activity
Reduce the risk of credential theft and business email compromise.Â
Endpoint Security &
Device Control
Protect laptops, desktops, and mobile devices wherever they are.
Network & Firewall
Security
Secure your perimeter and internal traffic with properly configured firewalls
Backup, Recovery &
Resilience
Ensure data can be recovered quickly if the worst happens.
Monitoring & Incident
Response
Continuous monitoring of servers, backups and connectivity, so problems surface as an alert we act on rather than as a call from a user.
Clients We Support
Supporting schools, professional services, and growing organisations with secure, reliable IT and network solutions.
Cyber security
Most breaches are not
sophisticated
They are a reused password, a convincing invoice, or a server that missed a patch eighteen months ago.
The attacks that actually reach UK businesses
Very little of what we deal with involves a novel technique. It is a member of staff typing a password into a page that looked exactly like the Microsoft sign-in. It is an email thread quietly watched until a bank detail could be changed. It is a remote access route left open on a server nobody has logged into since the person who built it moved on.
That is good news, because ordinary attacks are stopped by ordinary controls applied consistently. The hard part is the consistency, not the controls.
What we put in place
Multi-factor authentication on email and every remote route into the business, enforced rather than offered
Patching on a schedule covering servers and workstations, with a named owner and a record of what was applied
Endpoint protection that reacts to behaviour, not only to files it already recognises
Email filtering tuned for impersonation and invoice fraud rather than only for spam
Backups held away from the live systems, so reaching the network does not mean reaching the backup
Named accounts, least privilege, and administrator rights that are not handed out for convenience
Invoice fraud is the one that costs money
For any firm that moves client money — accountants, solicitors, anyone issuing invoices of size — the expensive incident is rarely ransomware. It is a genuine email thread, read by somebody who should not have had access, with bank details altered at precisely the right moment.
The defence is half technical and half procedural: impersonation filtering, alerting on new mailbox rules and enforced MFA on one side; a call-back on any change of bank details, to a number you already held, on the other. We put both in, because the technical half alone has never been enough.
The day it happens anyway
Prevention is a probability, not a guarantee. What separates a bad morning from a bad quarter is what was already in place: a backup that has been restored before, a list of who to tell and in what order, and somebody who has done this before picking up the phone.
We keep a written response plan for the systems a business cannot trade without, and we prove restores rather than assume them. Backup and business continuity belongs inside the security conversation, not in a separate quote.
Evidence, insurers and client questionnaires
More of our customers now have to answer security questions from their own clients, or from a cyber insurer at renewal, and the questions are specific. Is MFA enforced everywhere. Are backups tested. How quickly are critical patches applied. Who holds administrator rights.
Those answers are far easier to give when somebody has been keeping the record all year. We maintain it as part of managed IT support instead of assembling it the week before a renewal.
Common questions
Cyber security questions
we are asked most
Where should a business actually start?
With multi-factor authentication everywhere and backups held away from the live systems. Those two changes stop or survive the large majority of what we see, and neither depends on buying a new product.
We already have antivirus and a firewall. Is that not enough?
They are necessary and no longer sufficient. Most incidents now arrive through a valid login rather than through the perimeter, which is why identity, email and backup carry more weight than they did five years ago.
What happens if we are attacked?
We contain it, work out what was reached, restore from backups we have already tested, and deal with your insurer and your own clients’ questions alongside you. Where a formal forensic investigation is required we work with specialists rather than pretending to be one.
Will this slow our staff down?
Multi-factor authentication costs a few seconds a day. Security people fight gets worked around within a fortnight, so we would rather design controls staff can live with than win an argument and lose the protection.
Do you help with cyber insurance questionnaires?
Yes. We provide the technical answers and the evidence behind them. The policy decisions stay with you, but you should not be guessing at questions about your own systems.
What about staff awareness?
It matters more than any single product. We send client teams a short, regular awareness briefing rather than relying on an annual slide deck, and we can arrange phishing simulation where a firm wants to measure where it stands.
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Further reading
Guides for practice principals
Plain-English guides written for accountancy practices, not IT departments.
- Does Microsoft back up your Microsoft 365 data?Retention is not the same as a backup. What Microsoft actually keeps, for how long, and where 93 days of retention collides with six years of record-keeping duty.
- Is cloud desktop GDPR compliant for accountancy practices?What UK GDPR requires of your IT setup, the Data Processing Agreement most practices are missing, and the questions to put to any provider.
- Your staff are already using AI. The question is whether anyone told them which tool.
- An AI colleague that already knows what your day looks likeWhat it actually does inside a practice, why every reply is drafted for a person to approve, and plainly where your data goes.