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There are many benefits to having audio and alert systems in nursing or care facilities. You can use them to improve residents’ daily lives, make your staff’s work easier, or boost safety across the facility.

Martyn’s Law – the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill – received Royal Assent in April 2025 and passed into law. There will be a grace period before full implementation, providing an opportunity to begin preparations.

To help you navigate the law confidently, we outline its main points and provide some tips on how to get started.

There are more than 1.3m* school pupils in the UK with identified SEN (special educational needs). More than four in five* pupils with SEN are educated in mainstream schools.

Communicating with these pupils – in emergency and non-emergency situations – presents unique challenges. We suggest three areas to consider when choosing a class change and lockdown alert solution.

As we await the introduction of Martyn’s Law, we examine a key part of the Bill and what educational settings can do to comply.

Synchronising time is essential in manufacturing, where inaccurate operations can significantly impact security, productivity and costs. Using technology like Network Time Protocol (NTP) is key to effectively synchronising systems and clocks which run on the same network.

In the modern cybersecurity landscape, the frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks continue to escalate at an alarming pace. According to Gartner, 45% of companies worldwide are expected to be impacted by cyberattacks by 2025.A study by Cybersecurity Ventures states that a cyberattack took place every 39 seconds in 2023, emphasising the necessity for robust defence mechanisms within organisations.

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is an essential component of modern networking, ensuring precise synchronisation of clocks across systems, whether over local networks or the internet.

Developed in the 1980s by Dr David Mills at the University of Delaware, NTP is one of the oldest networking protocols still in active use. Its fundamental aim is to align all participating devices to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), thereby making operations reliable and keeping data integrity across networks. It’s worth noting that Dr Mills, who passed away in January 2024, is fondly remembered as the internet’s “father time” for his work on NTP.

The transport and logistics sector is a critical driver of the global economy, facilitating the movement of goods and people while contributing significantly to national GDPs. It is also becoming an attractive target for cybercriminals. In the last two years transportation has been one of the most attacked sectors after manufacturing. The consequences of these incidents, from data breaches to operational disruptions, show the urgent need for robust cybersecurity measures.

Time precision is important to everyone in a transport hub. As a traveller, you want to make sure you don’t miss your plane or train. As a transport operator, you need your passengers to be confident that the time displayed is correct, and be able to keep your services running on time.

To do this, all devices on your IT network must receive a single time reference that is constantly available, accurate and reliable. A time server will help; here we examine exactly how.