10 Ways To Strengthen Your Business Cyber Security

Cyber security is no longer just an IT issue. It is a business resilience issue, a compliance issue, a reputational issue and, in many cases, should be a board-level priority to ensure that your business can succeed. 

The latest UK Government Cyber Security Breaches Survey reported that 43% of businesses throughout the UK identified a cyber security breach or attack in the previous 12 months, with phishing remaining the most common vector to launch an attack (~93% of successful breaches started through a phishing attack). 

Businesses cannot afford to rely on traditional anti-virus tools, reactive support to cyber security incidents or the belief that “we’re too small to be targeted, it won’t happen to us”. 

Managed IT and Cyber Security Services can vastly strengthen your business cyber defences against increasing threats by bringing together proactive monitoring, specialist cyber security expertise, multi-layered advanced cyber security tools, clear strategy, processes and ongoing compliance management that is backed by a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy. 

Here are 10 ways Managed IT & Cyber Security Services can help improve your businesses cyber security and how TwentyFour can support your business. 

 

1. 24/7/365 Monitoring Through a Cyber Security Operations Centre

Do you think that cyber criminals only operate between UK 9am and 5pm office hours? No… we don’t think so either.  

Whilst it is common to be targeted by cyber attacks during the working day when you are more likely to interact with phishing emails or other forms of social engineering style attacks. Cyber criminals often target evenings, weekends, bank holidays and seasonal shutdown periods when businesses may have fewer people available or people are too distracted to spot suspicious activity. 

Did you know that cyber attacks increase by 30% in public holidays? 

A managed Cyber Security Operations Centre helps close that gap by continuously monitoring for signs of unusual behaviour, suspicious logins, endpoint threats, malware activity, data movement and attempted compromise to actively block cyber criminal activity in its tracks. 

Why does this matter? When it comes to cyber attacks, speed is critical. The quicker a threat is identified, investigated and contained, the lower the potential risk to systems, data, users, business operations and reputation. 

How Does TwentyFour Keep Your Business Cyber Secure? 

At TwentyFour we provide 24/7/365 monitoring through our fully managed and monitored Cyber Security Operations Centre. Ensuring that your business has access continuous cyber security oversight which can provide actional intervention, not just standard working-hours support. 

Our team can detect, investigate and respond to unusual, suspicious and malicious activity around the clock, reducing the risk of threats being missed simply because they happen outside normal office hours. This can be especially useful to secure and protect remote teams and users when they are travelling when identifying suspicious location access. 

 

2. A Multi-Layered Approach to Cyber Security

No single tool can protect a business from growing everyday cyber threats. Modern cyber security needs a layered approach, with multiple controls working together across devices, users, networks, cloud platforms, email, data and other business applications to provide a more rounded cyber defence solution. 

This means that if one control does not stop a threat, other layers are in place to reduce the chance of compromise, limit access, detect unusual, suspicious or malicious behaviour and support recovery. 

A layered cyber security strategy is especially important as businesses increasingly use cloud services, remote working, mobile devices, third-party platforms and hybrid infrastructure that are not protected by traditional cyber security solutions like anti-virus. 

How Does TwentyFour Keep Your Business Cyber Secure? 

TwentyFour provides a layered approach to cyber security as part of a wider cyber security and business continuity strategy. Rather than relying on one product or one control, we help businesses build protection across multiple areas, including endpoint security, identity access management, email protection, Zero Trust controls, endpoint management, cloud security, monitoring through our cyber security operations centre, backup & disaster recovery and compliance with industry regulations. 

This gives your business a far stronger cyber security posture that is built to not only protect your business but enable you to succeed securely. 

 

3. Endpoint Detection and Response

Your business “Endpoints” are often one of the first places attackers try to gain access. Laptops, Desktops, Servers and even Mobile Devices such as Smartphones or Tablets can all become entry points to your business and its data if they are not properly protected, updated and monitored. 

Endpoint Detection and Response, often referred to as EDR, goes beyond traditional signature-based anti-virus. It can identify unusual, suspicious or malicious behaviour, detect advanced threats, isolate compromised devices and provide clearer visibility into what is happening across your digital environment. 

This is important because many modern threats use polymorphic or metamorphic algorithms to avoid detection by traditional cyber security tools. 

How Does TwentyFour Keep Your Business Cyber Secure? 

TwentyFour supports businesses with advanced endpoint protection and EDR solutions that also feed monitoring and security alerts directly to our cyber security operations centre. This enables us to not only quickly detect and protect against potential advanced threats but also investigate and respond to suspicious activity on devices that could lead to further targeted attacks. 

 

4. Identity Access Management with PIM and PAM

When people think about cyber attacks they often think about a cyber criminal sat in a dark room typing code on to a screen to try and “hack the mainframe”. The reality of cyber attacks and data theft is very different. Many cyber attacks are not about breaking in through complex technical methods, instead they often involve stealing, guessing or abusing legitimate user credentials that they have been able to gain access to (such as part of a Dark Web Data Breach). 

This is why Identity Access Management (IAM) is such an important part of modern cyber security. Businesses need to know that user accounts are secure from malicious third parties being able to access them, understand who has access to what data, whether that access is still needed and how privileged accounts are being used or controlled. 

Privileged Identity Management and Privileged Access Management add further protection by removing user level administrator access from across the business, restricting data access to only what is required for a user’s role, applying stronger approval processes, audit trails and limiting the damage that can be caused if an account is compromised. 

How Does TwentyFour Keep Your Business Cyber Secure? 

TwentyFour helps businesses strengthen identity security through comprehensive Identity Access Management, including Privileged Identity Management (PIM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) policies to ensure that users have only the right access to files or systems for their role, that accounts with elevated privileged access rights are better controlled and that administrative access is not left open unnecessarily, only providing temporary elevation to data or systems when required on an approval only basis that is clearly ordered and auditable. 

This helps reduce the risk of account compromise, privilege abuse and unauthorised access to sensitive systems or data. 

 

5. Zero Trust Across Endpoint, Network and Cloud Access

Zero Trust is based on a simple principle: never automatically trust, always verify. 

In practice, this means businesses should not assume that a user, device or connection is safe simply because it is already inside the network or using a recognised account. 

Zero Trust can help strengthen cyber security across endpoints, networks and cloud platforms by checking identity, device health & security, user/device location, individual user access permissions in line with IAM policies and potential risk signals before allowing access to systems and data. 

How Does TwentyFour Keep Your Business Cyber Secure? 

At TwentyFour we embed Zero Trust policies, strategies and solutions through Zero Trust Endpoint Security, Zero Trust Network Access and Zero Trust Cloud Access as part of our layered cyber defence strategy, ensuring that no matter where your users (or the data they are accessing) are, that your business is protected. 

This helps businesses move away from outdated traditional security models where access permissions are too broad, too permanent or too dependent on location. Instead, access can be controlled based on identity, device security, connection, location, risk and business need. This results in a more secure, controlled and modern way to protect users, systems, data, and above all…. your business. 

 

6. Active Email Threat Protection

Email remains one of the most common routes for cyber attacks, cited as the entry point for 93% of successful business cyber breaches in 2025. Phishing, brand or identity impersonation, malicious attachments, fraudulent links and business email compromise can all place users and businesses at significant risk. This is why it is essential that email security cannot be treated as an optional extra and should be prioritised as a core part of any layered cyber defence strategy. 

Active Email Threat Protection helps reduce risk by scanning, filtering and analysing messages before they reach users, looking for suspicious requests, malicious files/links, or signs of user or brand impersonation. 

How Does TwentyFour Keep Your Business Cyber Secure? 

TwentyFour helps businesses strengthen email security through AI Powered Active Email Threat Protection paired with advanced spam filtering to ensure that you only get the messages that are important or relevant to you or your business and are protected from everything else. 

This can help detect and block phishing attempts, malicious links, suspicious attachments and impersonation-style attacks. Combined with wider cyber security monitoring, our cyber security operations centre and user training & awareness, you can vastly reduce one of the most common routes into a business. 

 

7. Endpoint Management and Security Configuration

Cyber security is not just about stopping attacks. It is also about ensuring that your devices are properly configured, updated and controlled to form a protective layer of defence against new “Zero Day” threats. 

Poorly managed devices can create avoidable risk. This could include missing cyber security patches, outdated software or operating systems, weak local settings, local administrator access, unmanaged “Shadow IT” applications, poor device visibility or users whose devices/accounts are not managed by the business and therefore ignore security policies in place. 

Endpoint management helps businesses maintain better control of their devices, apply security policies, manage updates, protect against “Shadow IT”, support compliance and strengthen your security posture. 

How Does TwentyFour Keep Your Business Cyber Secure? 

TwentyFour supports endpoint management and cyber security configurations across all business devices and operating systems. 

We ensure devices are better managed, monitored and maintained, with the right controls in place to support secure working and without impacting on user productivity. This includes helping businesses manage updates, policies, device visibility, business applications, access controls and security settings. 

By improving endpoint management, we ensure that businesses are able to mitigate preventable cyber risks. 

 

8. Proactive Patch Management

Zero Day vulnerabilities in systems & software are a cyber criminals dream, as through unpatched software, unsupported systems and known vulnerabilities they present common routes to launch cyber attacks. Attackers often look for known weaknesses that may already have fixes available, but may not yet have been applied to be able to grant access to or launch attacks on your businesses systems. 

Patch management, paired with remote endpoint monitoring management solutions identify devices, operating systems, drivers and applications that need updates, deploying only approved and tested patches (to avoid issues), monitoring update status, alerting if patches are not installed and reducing the number of known weaknesses across the environment. 

Comprehensive patch management processes are a core part of any cyber security strategy to ensure that you plug all known holes in your system that could cause a (data) leak. 

How Does TwentyFour Keep Your Business Cyber Secure? 

TwentyFour helps businesses manage patching and updates in a structured way. 

Our team support the automated deployment of approved updates, monitor devices that need attention, schedule failed updates around user availability and help reduce the risk caused by outdated or vulnerable systems. 

This gives your business a more consistent approach to keeping technology secure, supported, up to date, in-line with your business Cyber Security Strategy and compliant with industry regulations. 

 

9. Backup, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Even with strong cyber security tools and controls that are tailored to your business, how you operate and your industry, it is still incredibly important that businesses still plan for what happens if something goes wrong. 

Cyber attacks, ransomware, accidental deletion, hardware failure, natural disaster (such as flooding), cloud issues and human error can all lead to data loss or downtime. Comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions that link to your wider business continuity strategy ensure that businesses can recover faster, reduce operational disruption and protect critical information. 

Strong cyber security is not only about attack prevention. It must also include resilience and recovery against any form of disruption that could impact your business operations. 

How Does TwentyFour Keep Your Business Cyber Secure? 

At TwentyFour resilience is a core part of every IT and Cyber Security strategy, ensuring that businesses strengthen their operational resilience through backup, disaster recovery and business continuity planning. 

We ensure critical data and systems are protected, recovery options are in place to get businesses back up & running, and that businesses have a clearer plan for responding to disruption as quickly as possible. 

If the worst happens, is your business prepared to recover? How long would it take? And what would it cost your business in lost work due to downtime? 

 

10. Compliance Management That Goes Beyond a Tick Box Exercise

Industry and government recognised frameworks and certifications such as Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO 27001 help businesses demonstrate that they take cyber security seriously. However, too often businesses treat these as a tick box exercise to gain certification to display to their customers without considering the wider impacts and implications on the business. The most important part of being certified is not the certificate itself, it is staying secure, ensuring that you have the right processes & documentation in place, which means that staying certified requires ongoing management. 

Compliance management ensures that policies, evidence, controls, documentation, responsibilities and improvement actions are kept up to date all year long and are not just prepared at the last minute before an audit or renewal. 

How Does TwentyFour Keep Your Business Cyber Secure? 

At TwentyFour our Compliance Officer service supports businesses with Compliance Management designed to ensure that you prepare for, achieve and maintain certifications such as Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO 27001. 

We help businesses put the right tools, solutions, policies, documentation, evidence and controls in place. More importantly, we help ensure compliance becomes part of ongoing business operations. 

This means your business is not just aiming to pass an assessment. It’s building a stronger, more sustainable approach to cyber security, risk management and continuous improvement. 

 

Strengthen Your Business Cyber Security With TwentyFour 

At TwentyFour IT Services, we help businesses become more secure, resilient and confident in how they use technology. 

For many businesses, it is difficult to build the same level of capability internally. Cyber security requires specialist knowledge across many areas, including endpoint protection, identity, cloud access, email security, compliance, monitoring, incident response, backup and governance. 

Our Managed IT and Cyber Security services are designed to protect your users, devices, systems, data and cloud platforms through a layered, proactive and continuously monitored zero trust approach. 

From our 24/7/365 Cyber Security Operations Centre to EDR, Identity Access Management, Privileged Identity Management, Privileged Access Management, Zero Trust, Active Email Threat Protection, Endpoint Management, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Compliance Management, we help businesses reduce cyber risk and improve their long-term security posture to ensure business success. 

If your business wants to strengthen cyber security, improve compliance and build greater resilience, TwentyFour is here to help. 

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