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The Human Firewall: Team Training as Your Restaurant’s First Line of Cyber Defense

Friday, 22 May 2026 by Pratik Patel

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If you run a multi-site restaurant group, you already know where most of your real risk lives. It is not in a rack of kit in a comms room. It is on the floor, in the middle of service, when a manager under pressure opens a message that looks routine enough and clicks before they

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The digital kitchen: restaurant IT that actually runs your operation

Friday, 22 May 2026 by Raphael Waller

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In most restaurants, the kitchen is not just physical. Orders, payments, stock, bookings and reporting move through a digital architecture that sits behind service, and when that architecture is weak the operational impact is immediate. A restaurant that treats those systems as separate tools usually ends up with hidden dependencies, while a restaurant that treats

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Trustee Accountability in the Digital Age: A Practical Guide for Membership Body Boards

Thursday, 07 May 2026 by Viki Asimov

Why trustee accountability has changed Picture a membership body that has just discovered a data breach. The systems are back up, but the first questions from regulators are for the trustees: Those questions capture how far trustee accountability in the digital age has moved beyond “did we buy the right software”. For membership bodies, accountability

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Cybersecurity: operational excellence, not tools, ensure protection

Monday, 27 April 2026 by Sagi Saltoun

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If security were simply about fancy tools, UK organisations would be immune to high levels of disruption from relatively routine cyber incidents. Spending on security technology is on the rise but so (as the UK government’s latest Cyber Security Breaches Survey makes clear) is cybercrime. Data shows that just over four in ten UK businesses – and

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Restaurant POS security: stop breaches before Friday night service

Monday, 13 April 2026 by Raphael Waller

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It’s 7:30pm on a Friday. The dining room is full, your POS terminals are taking payment from card after card. But somewhere on your network, an attacker who joined your guest Wi‑Fi an hour ago is quietly harvesting customer and payment data. In almost every breach we see, the root cause is the same: a flat network where guest Wi‑Fi, staff

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The People Factor: Why Technical Controls Fail Without Human Training

Tuesday, 17 March 2026 by Viki Asimov

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What’s the point in spending tens of thousands on security infrastructure, getting it all configured properly, running penetration tests which come back clean only to have, three months later, someone in accounts clicking on a fake invoice and compromising the entire network. I’ve been thinking about why this keeps happening, and I don’t think it’s actually