Our customers John McMillan, Associate Director of IT and Josh Capon, IT Operations Manager, from ASSET Education in Suffolk talk about the benefits of using OX IT's Managed Service for Data Protection, which is powered by Acronis Cyber Protect. They also talk about their IT priorities as a Google-based environment in order to support the school curriculum for 16 Primary Schools.

You'll also get a useful overview of the Cyber Protect solution and how it enables regulatory and insurance industry compliance in Education, from Acronis expert Kieron Moore, Enterprise Sales Manager - Cloud.

A server goes offline. Within minutes, staff can’t get to their files, orders stop moving and the phone starts ringing with questions nobody can answer. What looks like an IT problem becomes everybody’s problem, fast.

Most businesses think about downtime in hours. What they don’t account for is everything underneath — the lost revenue, the compliance headaches, the customer who quietly goes elsewhere and never says why.

Watch Associate Director of IT, John McMillan (pictured), Josh Capon, IT Operations Manager and Rob Penn, Cybersecurity Administrator, from our customer ASSET Education Trust, talk about the challenges they face in a busy multi-academy trust, specifically what they are using OX IT’s Managed Service for Backup, DR and Cybersecurity to do, to protect the trust’s data, pupils and staff 24/7. John and his team highlight why they chose our Managed Service, powered by Acronis, and also what they like most about working with us.

Data Protection and Backup: Getting the Basics Right…

Data sits at the heart of every organisation. Customer records, financial information, internal communications, intellectual property. Lose any of it and you feel it immediately. And yet, most businesses don’t think seriously about protecting their data until something goes wrong.

Listen to OX IT Director & Account Manager Paul Streeter explaining what Penetration Testing is, why it is worth doing and how testing your defences for vulnerable points means you'll always be able to stay ahead of the latest cyber threats out there - resulting in greater peace of mind.

For a small expense, you'll avert disaster, stay open for business and be glad you did it!

Watch Shaun Roe, Technical Director from our customer and partner Proximitum, talk about the unique way we work together to deliver IT solutions and managed IT services to some of our shared customers. Shaun gives examples of customers we have helped recently with our managed IT services, which include backup, disaster recovery, cybersecurity solutions and data protection. Shaun also highlights why he chose to work with OX IT Solutions and also what he likes most about working with us.

In our recent webinar looking at cybersafety in the education sector, we heard from David Fuller, Director of Operations at The MILL Academy, alongside Martin Lethbridge, Principal Sales Engineer from WatchGuard Technologies. The conversation focused on the realities of managing IT in education and the practical steps schools can take to strengthen their cyber resilience.

Here are our five key takeaways from the webinar…

Watch this video and you’ll meet our customer, David Fuller, Operations Director at MILL Academy, Witney, talking about his IT plans and specific Cybersecurity challenges for this multi-academy trust. David explains what it is like working with OX IT Solutions, as an extension of his IT team. He also gives his reasons for using Acronis for back up and disaster recovery and WatchGuard for firewalls, and the benefits he's seeing from using both solutions.

To avoid any cyber breach to your university, school, academy trust, college or nursery, it is always safer to ensure you get the right balance of cybersecurity protection for your timescales and budget. The technology and expertise do exist to counter these threats. So, where AI is the attacker, cybersecurity technology has advanced so that AI is the defence. A preventative approach is key.

Come and listen to one of our Education customers talk about their IT priorities in a multi-academy trust for the year ahead, including what they are using their cyber threat protection to do and the delivery of services in a busy IT department to support the curriculum goals for 2026.

You'll also hear about the latest threat types and trends in the Education cyber landscape, plus the way to address them, from an industry expert at one of our top technology partners, WatchGuard.

Cybersecurity in 2026 is changing fast. But the solution is not about fear. It’s about control. Resilience. And knowing your business is prepared for whatever comes next.

Find out more about the key trends that OX IT Solutions foresees as being important for UK organisations in 2026.