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Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: The Cost of Running Out of Support: What End-of-Life Systems Actually Do to an IT Bill and a Risk Profile

October 14, 2026 | 22 min

The Cost of Running Out of Support: What End-of-Life Systems Actually Do to an IT Bill and a Risk Profile

A research report on what end-of-support systems cost. It works through Microsoft's published Windows 10 Extended Security Updates price, doubling and cumulative-purchase rules, the costs that never appear on a renewal quote, named end-of-life entries in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, what Singapore's Cyber Essentials mark says about end-of-support assets, and how to choose between refreshing, extending and running a system out. The Year Two and Year Three figures are the author's arithmetic from Microsoft's rule, and observations about client estates are Brocent's own and labelled as such.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: Your IT Provider Is Part of Your Attack Surface: Third-Party Cyber Risk From Both Sides of the Contract

October 13, 2026 | 23 min

Your IT Provider Is Part of Your Attack Surface: Third-Party Cyber Risk From Both Sides of the Contract

A research report on third-party cyber risk when the third party is your IT provider. It sets out what the joint CISA/NSA/FBI advisory AA22-131A tells buyers and providers to do, what Verizon's 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report measures about third-party involvement in breaches, how the US SEC disclosure rules raise the stakes for notification terms, and what a buyer should put in the contract rather than the questionnaire. Observations about buyer questions in Hong Kong and Singapore are Brocent's own and are labelled as such.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: The Hidden Operating Cost of IT Sprawl: When Apps, Devices, and Vendors Multiply Faster Than Headcount

October 07, 2026 | 22 min

The Hidden Operating Cost of IT Sprawl: When Apps, Devices, and Vendors Multiply Faster Than Headcount

A research report on the operating cost of IT sprawl for companies of 30 to 300 people. It explains why that cost scales with people multiplied by systems rather than with the software invoice, sets out what Zylo's 2026 SaaS Management Index, Productiv's State of SaaS series and Flexera's 2026 State of ITAM report actually measure and where, and gives a practical inventory-and-reduction framework. Observations about Hong Kong and Singapore clients are Brocent's own and are labelled as such.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: The MSP Consolidation Wave: What Private-Equity Roll-Ups Mean for IT Buyers in the US, Hong Kong, and Singapore

September 30, 2026 | 23 min

The MSP Consolidation Wave: What Private-Equity Roll-Ups Mean for IT Buyers in the US, Hong Kong, and Singapore

A research report on provider-side consolidation in managed IT services, written for the buyer instead of the seller. It sets out what is actually documented about private-equity-backed MSP acquisitions in the United States, states plainly that no comparable record exists for Hong Kong or Singapore, and declines to extrapolate one market onto the other. Market figures are attributed to Omdia, Channel Dive, Service Leadership and company press releases; what happens to clients after an acquisition is Brocent's own qualitative observation and is labelled as such. It closes with the ownership questions and contract clauses a buyer can raise before signing a multi-year agreement.

Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: Whose Direct Footprint Matches Your Office Map? IT Support for US Companies in Asia

September 11, 2026 | 19 min

Whose Direct Footprint Matches Your Office Map? IT Support for US Companies in Asia

A composite scenario: a US industrial-software company with Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai offices collects three US MSP quotes within fifteen percent of each other and cannot tell them apart. Why 'global coverage' is unevaluable until it is broken into tiers, and the five questions that separate the proposals.