Resources for UK IT leaders

Checklists, playbooks, whitepapers and webinars on Cyber Essentials Plus, software rationalisation and vulnerability management. Looking for our written guides? Those live in Insights.

Guides and downloads

Our written guides are published free in Insights. The items below are longer-form downloads and recordings, in production now.

INSIGHTS LIBRARY

Five practical guides, free to read

Cyber Essentials v3.3 (Danzell), the 14-day patching rule, MSI vs MSIX, Intune and Configuration Manager health reporting, and Microsoft 365 licence reclamation. No form, no gate.

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GUIDE

CE+ readiness checklist 2026

Eight controls, twenty-three sub-clauses, the order most assessors check them in, and the evidence each one expects.

14 min read · In production
PLAYBOOK

The 5Rs framework for software rationalisation

How to Retain, Reduce, Replace, Remove or Replatform every product in your estate - with usage telemetry, not gut feel.

22 min read · In production
WHITEPAPER

KEV-aware vulnerability triage

Why "Critical" and "High" CVSS scores aren't the prioritisation signal - and how CISA's KEV catalogue changes triage maths.

18 min read · In production
CASE STUDY

How a UK water utility saved 31% in Q1

A composite story from a real APaaS Assure customer - 137 apps retired, 412 KEVs closed, all in one quarter.

9 min read · In production
WEBINAR

From annual audit to continuous compliance

A 30-minute panel with two UK IT Directors who have moved off the audit-week scramble. Q&A included.

On-demand · In production
COMPARISON

APaaS Assure vs the stitched stack

What it costs to replicate APaaS Assure's capabilities by buying Drata + Tenable + Flexera + NinjaOne. Spoiler: a lot.

6 min read · In production

The items marked in production are being written now. If one of them would be useful to you sooner, email Assure@apaas.org and we will send you the draft - we would rather it was useful than polished.