Sep 01, 2025
Treat Cyber Risk Like Fire Risk: Prevention + Insurance = Resilience. Imagine this: you wouldn’t run a business without smoke alarms, sprinklers, and fire drills — and then only rely on...
Aug 01, 2025
The True Cost of IT: Why Proactive Support Can Save You More Than It Costs - Peace of mind, fewer surprises, and more time for what matters Most business owners don’t want...
Jul 01, 2025
Why Growing Businesses Are Moving Away from Reactive IT Support - and why a proactive approach is becoming the new standard For many small and mid-sized businesses, IT support has traditionally been...
Nov 05, 2024
If your business is preparing for Cyber Essentials or CE+, you’ve probably already looked at the questionnaire and thought: “Is this just a formality or is someone going to check this?” The...
Aug 01, 2024
You’ve probably heard the phrase “Cyber Essentials” come up in conversations with insurers, supply chains, or even customers. But what does it actually involve? What’s the difference between Cyber Essentials...
Jun 19, 2024
If you’ve been told your current MSP is “proactive,” but all that really means is they run patches and antivirus updates — we need to talk. At ALTO, we believe...
Apr 04, 2024
Cyber attackers are remarkably resourceful. They can be inventive and pretty creative in how they infiltrate your systems. We have seen situations where work information is taken from a personal...
Feb 01, 2024
8 Step Guide To Creating A Profitable Business Culture We've run various projects involving work on our business at Alto and one of the projects that we felt would be worth...
Dec 08, 2023
If you're in a business, you need to make sure things are secure. It's not something that should be taken lightly. You need patches, alerts, antivirus, email security, dark web...
May 17, 2023
Microsoft 365 is a productivity suite of software, collaboration tools, cybersecurity products and cloud services. It includes what used to be called Microsoft Office – all the apps you use...
Mar 28, 2023
We’ve written about creating a business continuity plan and why it’s so important. To recap, you need to consider how your business would function if you lost access to your data,...
Feb 24, 2023
What Is Cloud Storage? You’re almost certainly using cloud storage in your everyday life, even if you don’t realise it. If you back your photos up from your phone, share files...
Jan 31, 2023
We're regularly asked about the benefits of migrating to Microsoft 365 and we are firmly of the opinion that there are a large number of advantages and very few drawbacks....
Dec 07, 2022
There are five really common problems that people experience with computers and some of them can be fixed or at least diagnosed pretty quickly and easily, and are definitely worth...
Nov 02, 2022
If you run a business then the obvious answer to the question 'How long should your business computers last' may seem to be 'As long as possible'. With all of...
Aug 22, 2022
Slow computers are a constant irritation. They also cost your business a lot of money. How? Well, let's take a look at the maths; a computer that runs slowly for...
Apr 12, 2022
Following our explanation of the Cyber Essentials programme, we are going to go into more detail about the 80 question questionnaire and the type of information that is required.
Mar 29, 2022
What Is Cyber Essentials? Cyber Essentials is a basic yet effective government-backed programme that will help you be aware of cyber threats and help protect your business against these threats.
