Made for UK small businesses & hobbyists
Plain-English guides, security-first defaults, and an honest news feed for owner-operators who'd rather be running their business than wrestling with a settings page.
This week's setup
The single highest-impact security change you can make today. We'll walk through Conditional Access, Authenticator app setup, and break-glass accounts.
We don't try to cover everything. We focus on the cloud setup decisions that matter most when you're running a small UK business — or building something on the side.
MFA, password managers, backups, basic compliance for UK SMBs.
First-time setup of Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, AWS Lightsail and friends.
Cost control, licence right-sizing, and choosing the right tier.
Homelab, Pi clusters, indie SaaS — with the same plain-English treatment.
Our most-used guides. Each one assumes you've got a lot on already, so there's a TL;DR up top and the actual steps right after.
From zero to a working login page: pull the image, set your admin password, and have Keycloak running on your local machine before your coffee goes cold.
Single sign-on sounds like enterprise territory — but Keycloak runs in Docker on a Raspberry Pi and solves real problems for small teams and homelabs.
Realms are how Keycloak separates tenants and apps. Here's how to set one up, create user accounts, and understand what you're looking at in the admin console.
The cloud news that actually matters for a UK SMB this week — summarised, with our take.
Source: Microsoft 365 blog
A small uplift on Business Premium kicks in from June. For most UK SMBs the maths still favours Premium over Standard once you factor in Intune and Defender — but it's worth a 10-minute review.
Source: ICO
The ICO has clarified its expectations around encryption-at-rest and data residency for SMBs using consumer-grade cloud storage. Translation: if your shared 'office files' folder is a personal Dropbox, sort it.
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