What we have learned, written down.

12 Questions to Vet MSSPs for FCA-Regulated UK Firms

Here are twelve due diligence questions FCA-regulated firms should ask any managed security provider, plus the red flags that should make you walk away from ...

Your cloud estate has outgrown your security model. Now what?

Most UK financial services firms I talk to rarely have a cloud strategy problem, but they do have to deal with cloud sprawl. The first wave of workloads went ...

Why outcome-based consulting works better than time-and-materials for financial services

Outcome-based pricing changes the conversation entirely. Consulting stops being a cost line that finance grumbles about every month, and starts being something ...

Making Microsoft 365 safe for fintech

A practical walkthrough of securing Microsoft 365 for fintech, from Entra ID to Intune and Conditional Access.

How to navigate the challenges of a BYOD Strategy for Modern Workplace

How do we define a bring your own device strategy? One of the most asked questions we get when working with our customers on their Modern Workplace strategy is ...

Building Resilient IAM Frameworks: A Practical Guide for Financial and Retail Security Leaders. Part 1

Streamlining for Success: Consolidating Under the Yobah Brand

So, it's been a while since I put pen to paper (well, finger tips to keyboard), so I thought I would drop some of my thoughts and make an announcement in this ...

Securing your Azure landing zone with PIM

Microsofts Privileged Identity Management tooling is defiantly worth the investment, especially if you are configuring your landing zone in Azure. It does ...

Steering through cloud complexity: How Azure Landing Zones counteract technical debt

If I was to sit down and think about one of my main talking points on a day to day with customers is around how using 'the cloud' can improve their security ...

The Importance of IT Consulting

Our way of work has changed forever in the last few years. Not only through the normalisation of hybrid and remote work, but also by the advancement in cloud ...

Key themes from DTX Manchester 2023 - Digital Transformation

I was lucky enough to block out my diary last week and head over to the DTX 2023 event at Manchester Central (or Gmex for those that remember calling it ...

4 Principles for the perfect landing zone

Over the years, I have worked with many organisations that are giving their business users access to hyper-scale platforms such as Azure and AWS. This gives ...

Secure Your Data with Confidence: Explore Yobah's Backup as a Service Infographic

Explore the advantages of Yobah's Backup as a Service with our infographic below! Your data is your company's most valuable asset. Are you certain it's ...

Backing Up The Basics: Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 comprises various applications and data storage locations. Backup solutions can back up a wide range of services, including but not limited to, ...

Cyber Security: The Gap Between Knowledge and Action

82% of senior management in the UK class cybersecurity as either a high or very high priority, but only 19% have an active incident response plan in place. ...

Yobah strengthens expertise with Microsoft Azure Solutions Partner Accreditation

Manchester-based technology growth firm Yobah has secured Microsoft Azure Solutions Partner designation in the Infrastructure Solution Area. The designation ...

Yobah Life: Work Where You’re Happy

A new way of working… We’re currently in a recruitment phase here at Yobah, a process which has presented quite a few learnings for us (more on that here) and ...

Are numberless bank cards just security for the sake of it?

First, there was contactless and now there is numberless with one bank opting to ditch the 16-digit number altogether, but why and is it just security for the ...

Banks are deluded if they think digital transformation is done…

At least that’s the view according to a recent report. The Cornerstone Advisors 2022 What’s Going On In Banking Study claims that banks are deluded into ...

Should you be using a password manager?

As you may have recently spotted in the media, one of the most popular password managers has recently been compromised, Last Pass reported a security breach ...

Cyber Security burnout – what needs to change?

We’ve been noticing a worrying trend recently for articles about mental health in cyber security and in particular burnout amongst the profession, it’s true ...

‘How big is our cyber security gap? We don’t know

Businesses have taken a series of big decisions in the past two years; decisions that have kept their operations going and their employees connected. But now, ...

Yobah Life: Recruitment Lessons

We’re hiring… In fact, we’ve been hiring for a couple of months, we’re looking for the perfect person for our next role and let’s just say our process is ...

We’re in the cloud! Now what??

We moved to the cloud… we must be more secure? So you have have moved your business to a service such as Office 365 or Azure? Let’s not take our eye of the ...

Yobah become Microsoft double silver partner

Yobah has been awarded Microsoft silver competencies in both datacenter and cloud productivity. Buzzing! That’s the best way for me to describe the atmosphere ...

Supporting Client Response to COVID19

Azzurro Associates is a leader in the Commercial Debt Solutions sector – Investor, Innovator, and Servicer, with a data-driven approach at their core, they ...

Azzurro Associates

Azzurro Associates is a specialist purchaser of commercial and niche consumer debt portfolios; FinTech, Innovator, Disruptor, with a Data-driven approach at ...

Key architecture principles to ensure it’s ‘always’ business as usual

Lockdown in the UK was swift and for the majority of businesses created a multitude of changes and challenges, but for our clients things were a little ...

Azure Security – Starter for 10

I often hear from customers, colleagues and industry experts on how the cloud can affect their security posture, and whether it is improved, or negatively ...

The problem with sales – it’s not me, it’s you

Working for a cybersecurity specialising company, I understand the concept of Zero Trust and think it’s one that the majority of companies should adopt. When ...

6 Benefits of a Single User Identity

As more and more businesses ‘move to the cloud,’ their teams expect and need, uninterrupted access to programmes and applications from anywhere, anytime and on ...

Yobah Life: Careers At Yobah

Having started life as a small consulting business almost seven years ago, we have grown into a cloud-managed services and cybersecurity provider working with ...

This month in Reboot – March 2022

It’s time for another edition of Reboot and if you missed our newsletter, never fear it’s all here! We’re Hiring

Yobah Life: Meet The Team - Paul Sanders

Welcome to another edition of Yobah Life, this time around we’re taking you behind the scenes to meet our team! Whilst our core team is a small (yet perfectly ...

Moving to the cloud? – Don’t make these mistakes !

It’s been a year of unbelievable change for UK businesses, we’re now into the eleventh month of the majority of people still working from home and about to ...

Yobah goes triple silver with latest Microsoft Accreditation

FinTech growth specialists Yobah announce Microsoft Silver Security partner competency.

This month in Reboot – November 2021

It’s time for another edition of Reboot and if you missed our newsletter, never fear it’s all here! Opinion Businesses have taken a series of big decisions in ...

Yobah Life: Meet The Team - Dan Flower

Welcome to another edition of Yobah Life, this time around we’re taking you behind the scenes to meet our team! Whilst our core team is a small (yet perfectly ...

Microsoft Ignite: Our Top 3 Teams Updates

The end of September saw Microsoft host their 2020 Ignite event – for the first time 100% virtual but still absolutely jam-packed with updates and information ...

What happens when… ‘ You Get a Dodgy Email’

We all get hundreds of emails, so it’s easy to make a mistake and click on one which is less than friendly especially when it looks legit! It’ s a common ...

Yobah Life: The Lockdown Edition

Welcome to Yobah Life: The Lockdown edition, we’re into a 7th week of lockdown and it’s fair to say Yobah Life has been looking a little different of late and ...

Yobah become a CSP

I am excited to announce that Yobah has been certified as a 1-Tier Cloud Solution Provider. We now join a small number of best-of-breed service providers in ...

This month in Reboot – February 2022

It’s time for another edition of Reboot and if you missed our newsletter, never fear it’s all here! Opinion: How big is our cyber security gap – we don’t know? ...

Solvings

Solvings is a full-service IT company, with clients in North Wales, Chester, Liverpool and Manchester. They specialise in IT Managed Services, Cyber Security ...

This month in Reboot – December 2022

It’s time for another edition of Reboot and if you missed our newsletter, never fear it’s all here! Reflections on 2022

This month in Reboot – May 2022

It’s time for another edition of Reboot and if you missed our newsletter, never fear it’s all here! Welcome to The Team!

We’ve been a little quiet, but we’ve got a good reason why…

Having started life as a small consulting business almost seven years ago, we have grown into a cloud-managed services and cybersecurity provider working with ...

This month in Reboot – June 2022

It’s time for another edition of Reboot and if you missed our newsletter, never fear it’s all here! Meet The Team

This month in Reboot – October 2022

It’s time for another edition of Reboot and if you missed our newsletter, never fear it’s all here! It’s time to stop the productivity paranoia A new survey ...

Is Your Home Office Secure?

Still, working from home? Yep us too! it’s the ‘ new normal’ right? Whether we’re working from the dining room table or we’ve managed to get a sweet home ...

The cloud’ promises a lot, but it’s still misunderstood

Platforms including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure have provided companies with huge resources to innovate and grow. But using them properly takes ...

The Power of Partnerships – Trailblazing Tech Conference 2021

We’re really excited to be sponsors of pro-manchester’s Trailblazing Tech Conference for 2021 – not least because we’re going to be networking in a room with ...

Yobah Life: Prioritising Personal Development

We’re a business that has always prided itself on being at the forefront of technical knowledge for our clients, constantly striving to learn more and do ...

Reflections on 2022

It’s that time of year again when we take a moment to reflect and take a little look back on all that has gone before. And what a year it has been, casting our ...

We’re Hiring: Senior Systems Engineer 

Following a period of significant growth for our business, we’re now looking to add to our team with a Senior Systems Engineer. We’re a team of dedicated ...

Yobah CTO Ian Wright set to speak at FinTech Lunch

Yobah CTO Ian Wright will join a panel of experts on Friday 24th September to discuss some of the biggest topics and hottest talking points in the UK fintech ...

Skype for Business to be integrated into Microsoft Teams

Big news from Ignite 2017 At Ignite 2017, Microsoft have announced that Skype for Business will integrated into Microsoft Teams.

2017 Predictions

So it’s that time of year again. As it comes to an end, I am sure you will all agree 2016 was a pretty hectic. This week I am working from home, and decided to ...

How safe is Microsoft Teams really?

A new report has suggested that criminals are using the increasing popularity of collaboration platform Microsoft Teams to infect systems with malware. ...

Finding my balance – The Yobah Way

Work life balance are 3 words that have been bandied around for a long time. I always thought I understood them and I believed I had a good balance. Since ...

Yobah Life: Meet The Team - Darren Jones

Welcome to another edition of Yobah Life, this time around we’re taking you behind the scenes to meet our team! Whilst our core team is a small (yet perfectly ...

Azure in the UK – open the flood gates

Did you hear the news? Daft question, I know. After this weeks announcement from Microsoft regarding their UK data centres, my news feed was full of ...

Merry Christmas From Yobah

When we wrote this message last year we were reflecting on the challenges and changes we’d seen through 2020 and we were looking forward to our plans for 2021. ...

Yobah has the MIDAS touch with Microsoft Gold Accreditation

Yobah has the Midas touch, more than doubling turnover and securing Microsoft Gold Accreditation Manchester-based technology growth firm Yobah is flying high ...

This month in Reboot – July 2022

It’s time for another edition of Reboot and if you missed our newsletter, never fear it’s all here! Yobah Life: Finding My Balance The Yobah Way Work-life ...

We’re Hiring: Senior Platform Engineer 

Following a period of significant growth for our business, we’re now looking to add to our team with a Senior Platform Engineer. We’re a team of dedicated ...

We’re going back to the office – but why?

Back in June 2020 (was it really that long ago?!) we wrote this blog about saying goodbye to our office in the midst of a national lockdown we’d realised our ...

Yobah Life: Meet The Team - Natalie Asprey

Welcome to another edition of Yobah Life, this time around we’re taking you behind the scenes to meet our team! Whilst our core team is a small (yet perfectly ...

Yobah Life: Team collaboration, new products and out and about!

It’s been a busy few weeks here at Yobah, but what have we been up to! A New Home and New Team Member

This month in Reboot – April 2022

It’s time for another edition of Reboot and if you missed our newsletter, never fear it’s all here! Meet The Team: Alex Jenner

What happens when… ‘ Your Laptop Gets Stolen’

We’ve all been there, that scramble to log an urgent job with your IT Help Desk or provider when something happens and you don’t know what to do next! Don’t ...

Lessons learned in 2020

2020. What. A. Year It’s safe to say it has been one hell of a year. Incredibly challenging times for many and the strange whirl of rules and regulations, ...

Gold for Yobah with latest accreditation

Manchester-based technology growth firm Yobah has secured Microsoft Gold Cloud Competency which demonstrates continued commitment and expertise in delivering ...

This month in Reboot – September 2021

After a bit of a hiatus, our monthly newsletter is back, new and improved! if you’re not signed up don’t worry you can pick up all the good stuff right here on ...

We’re Hiring: Business Development Manager

Are you an experienced BD professional who enjoys the customer journey as well as the ‘sell’? We are a fast-growing strategic consultancy with a specific focus ...

This month in Reboot – February 2023

It’s time for another edition of Reboot and if you missed our newsletter, never fear it’s all here! Cyber Security Burnout – what needs to change

Why you might need a managed service provider

If you’re a small to medium-sized business you’re likely to be using some sort of IT systems and there’s a strong possibility you’re handling that yourself or ...

4 simple rules to start your cloud journey

Over the past 5 years, I have been working with many businesses on how they transform their internal IT Service offering into a more flexible, cloud ready ...

‘Locking Down’ Video Calls

It’s October and we’re still working from home – and given current government restrictions and local lockdowns, it looks like that’s a situation which won’t be ...

Top Tips for making the most of Teams

For the past few months, we’ve all been working from home and embracing technologies which help us to work more effectively and whilst many businesses have ...

Yobah Life: GoodBye Office

Welcome to Yobah Life: The Semi – Lockdown edition shall we call it? We’re on week 13 now (we think?) and although some restrictions have been lifted, there’s ...

Yobah Life: Meet The Team - James Pollard

Welcome to another edition of Yobah Life, this time around we’re taking you behind the scenes to meet our team! Whilst our core team is a small (yet perfectly ...

Sign up for our newsletter and win an iPad!

Our regular newsletter is full of all the news from Yobah, insights into #YobahLife, regular blogs and content on #IT and #Tech support and how we work with ...

Providing seamless solutions for the new working world

It’s probably a shoo-in for word of the year but the CoronaVirus pandemic really has presented some unprecedented challenges for businesses everywhere. Our day ...

Why Productivity Paranoia needs to stop

A new survey from Microsoft has shown that employers and their teams fundamentally disagree about productivity when working from home. While 87% of employees ...

What happens when… ‘ Someone leaves the business unexpectedly’

When a p45 is issued unexpectedly there’s a lot to do for a business and protecting security should be top of the list. When employees are leaving a business, ...

Microsoft steps up security for hybrid work

Over the past two years the move to hybrid work has been rapid and as businesses and individuals have rapidly adapted so too have attackers and cybercriminals, ...

Windows 11 – is it worth upgrading?  

Microsoft began rolling out Windows 11 in October 2021 to users with compatible devices, a large proportion of which were business users and from optimization ...

Welcome to our new site

Welcome So after a number of months of hard work and graft, our designers and content teams have created what you see today… our new website! I am sure you ...

Employees don’t think cyber security is important – here’s how to change it

Report shows a third of employees don’t think cyber security is important A recent report from US-based Tessian uncovered that whilst 99% of IT and security ...

Yobah Life: Top Tech Podcasts

It’s been a busy few months here at Yobah, and whilst it can be difficult to navigate that blurry line between work, home life and what’s going on in the wider ...

GBG

GBG is a global specialist in identity data intelligence, helping organisations make decisions about the customers they serve and the people they employ. ...

European Cyber Security Month: Overview

October is European Cyber Security Month. An annual event held every October, the aim is to promote cybersecurity to a wider audience, increase awareness of ...

Microsoft 365 Business

Microsoft have released a new Office 365 offering into preview named “Microsoft 365 Business” which is expected to go into production at the end of 2017. As ...

Yobah achieve Silver Cloud Platform competency

Yobah strengthen their cloud credentials As of this afternoon, Yobah are pleased to announce that we have achieved our Silver Cloud Platform competency from ...

We’re Hiring: Desktop Automation Engineer

Following a period of significant growth for our business, we’re now looking to add to our team with a Desktop Automation Engineer. We’re a team of dedicated ...

This month in Reboot – September 2022

It’s time for another edition of Reboot and if you missed our newsletter, never fear it’s all here! Should you be using a password manager?