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Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: Too Small for Enterprise Security, Too Exposed to Skip It: A Hong Kong Design Studio's Starter Bundle

September 11, 2026 | 15 min

Too Small for Enterprise Security, Too Exposed to Skip It: A Hong Kong Design Studio's Starter Bundle

A composite scenario from Hong Kong: a fifteen-person design studio receives three security quotes, all scoped for a company several times its size, and concludes that real security is out of reach. What a fixed-price starter bundle changes about that decision — and why it is the first rung on the same ladder as a full managed IT plan.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: The Insurer's Questionnaire Had Twelve Questions: What a Hong Kong Firm Learned Renewing Cyber Cover

September 11, 2026 | 14 min

The Insurer's Questionnaire Had Twelve Questions: What a Hong Kong Firm Learned Renewing Cyber Cover

A composite scenario from Hong Kong: a seventy-person distributor opens its cyber-insurance renewal pack and finds twelve specific, checkable questions where last year there was one page. What the questions cluster into, why nobody in the building can answer four of them, and what changes when identity, patching, devices and training stop being four separate purchases.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: The Router From the Telco Wasn't Enough: A Hong Kong Manufacturer's Managed Firewall Upgrade

September 04, 2026 | 15 min

The Router From the Telco Wasn't Enough: A Hong Kong Manufacturer's Managed Firewall Upgrade

A composite scenario from Hong Kong: a light-manufacturing SME had run for years on the router its telco bundled in with the internet line, until a routine security review found no real firewall policy at all — just factory defaults on a network that had grown to include production-floor equipment alongside office PCs. Why a managed, SME-scale next-gen firewall — not an enterprise offering, and not the telco's bundled router — closed that gap, and what it looks like bundled into a managed IT plan.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: 5 Cybersecurity Mistakes Hong Kong SMEs Are Still Making in 2025

April 18, 2025 | 2 min

5 Cybersecurity Mistakes Hong Kong SMEs Are Still Making in 2025

Despite increasing awareness, most cyber incidents affecting SMEs come down to the same handful of preventable mistakes. Here is what we see most often and how to fix them.