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Stay Secure. Stay Resilient. Never Lose a Day's Work.

What your business looks like when security and continuity are handled - so you never have to think about them.

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This page is about outcomes. What changes for your business when security and continuity are properly managed. If you want to understand how we deliver these outcomes technically, visit our services page: Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Services.

The Problem Most SMEs Are Living With

You've got a backup. Probably. You think your IT is secure. Mostly. You have a rough idea of what would happen if you got hit by ransomware. Sort of.

That's not a criticism - it's the reality for most UK SMEs. Security and continuity are complex, expensive and easy to defer. Until something goes wrong. And when something goes wrong at this scale, the cost isn't just financial.

43% of SMEs that suffer a major data loss never fully recover their previous operating capacity
£35,000+ average cost of ransomware downtime for a UK small business - before recovery costs
74% of SME security breaches start with a compromised Microsoft 365 identity

The most painful part? Most of these incidents were preventable. Not with a huge IT budget, but with the right tools, properly configured and actively managed.

What You're Worried About

Ransomware and Cyber Attack
You've read the headlines. You know it happens to businesses your size. You're not sure your current setup would stop it — or recover from it quickly enough. And you're not confident your Microsoft 365 data is actually backed up.

Accidental Data Loss
An employee deletes something important. A folder gets overwritten. A migration goes wrong. Microsoft's default 'recycle bin' doesn't go back far enough. That data is gone — unless you have proper backup in place.

Compliance, Audit and Insurance
Your cyber insurer is asking harder questions than they used to. A prospective client wants evidence of your security posture. Your board wants to see a DR plan. Right now you don't have the documentation to back any of it up.

What Changes When You Work With Advantage

You Know Your Data Is Safe

Every email, file, Teams conversation and SharePoint document backed up daily
Immutable backup storage - ransomware cannot touch it
Any file, mailbox or site restored within hours, not days
Microsoft 365 gap closed - the data Microsoft doesn't protect by default is protected
✦ AI-FIRST AI-powered anomaly detection flags unusual deletion or access patterns before data loss becomes permanent — not after.

You Can Recover. Quickly.

A tested, documented recovery plan that your team can actually execute under pressure
RTO measured in hours — backed by quarterly test evidence
Automated failover for critical systems via Azure Site Recovery
Board-ready documentation and audit packs ready to produce on request

You're Protected Against Today's Threats

AI-driven threat monitoring across identities, devices and your Microsoft 365 environment
Phishing, credential theft and ransomware caught before they cause damage
Microsoft Secure Score actively managed and improved over time
Cyber Essentials certification achieved — satisfying insurers and procurement teams
✦ AI-FIRST Microsoft Sentinel uses AI and machine learning to correlate thousands of security signals daily — identifying attack patterns that rule-based tools and human analysts miss entirely.

Your Leadership Team Can Stop Worrying

Clear answer to 'what happens if we get hit by ransomware?'
Evidence for cyber insurers, auditors and enterprise clients
Security and continuity removed from the board risk register as a red item
Predictable monthly cost replacing unpredictable incident costs

What Success Looks Like at 12 Months

A business that worked with Advantage on security and continuity typically looks like this a year in:

Microsoft Secure Score above 80% - up from an average of 35-40% at the start
Zero unprotected Microsoft 365 data - every workload covered by CloudVault365™
A tested DR plan with documented RTO evidence - board approved, insurer accepted
Cyber Essentials certified - opening doors to contracts that required it
At least one incident caught and contained by AI monitoring before it escalated
Staff more confident using Microsoft 365 because they know it's secure

The Honest Conversation

We won't pretend we can make your business immune to cyber attack. Nobody can. What we can do is make you significantly harder to attack, dramatically faster to recover and properly protected against the most common causes of SME data loss.

Most of our clients come to us after a near-miss or after getting declined for cyber insurance. We'd rather meet you before that happens.

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Not sure where the biggest gaps are? Our Business Continuity Assessment maps your current posture against what you actually need - and gives you a prioritised plan to get there.

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Work Smarter. Grow Faster. Stay Ahead.

The technology you use should help you move faster, not hold you back. At Advantage, we help SMEs unlock the full power of Microsoft - from cloud and security to AI and automation. Whether you're modernising systems or exploring Copilot, we'll help you transform the way you work. Let's build something smarter. Together.