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IRB – introducing the Intelligent Ready Building

Is your network security architecture designed for yesterday’s problems?

Over the past decade, the IT world has changed dramatically. In the latter part of the twenty-tens digital transformation projects, cloud strategies, automation and the adoption of SaaS applications were on the agenda for many businesses. Most workforces went to a place of work daily, and IT teams had control over the location of their users and endpoints, so they focused on centralising their security.

Promise and Peril in the Age of Agentic AI: Navigating the New Security Landscape

The IT function is undergoing its most fundamental transformation in decades. We’re moving from an era where our job was to provide and secure technology that helps humans DO work to an era where we provide and secure technology that DOES the work. This shift is profound, it’s happening at unprecedented speed, and it’s creating entirely new categories of security risk that most enterprises aren’t prepared for.

Co-op Live Arena: award-winning network and Wi-Fi

Ideal was recognised at the Cisco Partner Summit 2024 EMEA UK & Ireland Theatre Awards in Los Angeles this week, winning Smart Buildings / Venues Partner of the Year for our CNS and Wi-Fi deployment at Co-op Live in Manchester.

Enabling buildings to become intelligent, connected and sustainable

Smart Buildings has become a widely used term in today’s world. Many modern buildings and retrofit projects are delivering smart building technology as landlords and tenants seek to achieve key business objectives such as talent management and delivering an inspirational user experience to employees, achieving sustainability goals where the overall building performance can be improved, and delivering cost and operating efficiencies.

Smart Managed Services

Ideal has a long established track record in proving top class Managed Network and Cybersecurity Services. We have designed, built and now manage networks and services for some of the most prestigious projects in the UK.

Enterprise Wi-Fi: Beyond the Myths – A Leadership Guide to Delivering Flawless Wi-Fi

In today’s hybrid workplace, many long-held assumptions about Wi-Fi implementation are outdated or just plain wrong. In this insight-packed seven-part blog series, Senior Project Engineer and Wi-Fi specialist Mark Rigby challenges the misconceptions that could be limiting your teams’ productivity.

From Shadow AI to Prompt Injection and Model Poisoning: The New Threat Landscape for AI-Enabled Enterprises

When Your Custom AI Becomes the Attack Vector – Why Building Secure-by-Design Matters Just as Much as Speed to Market. Enterprises across every sector are rushing to build custom AI capabilities; from internal chatbots and AI agents that streamline operations to customer-facing agents that transform service delivery. Yet whilst organisations focus on capturing AI’s transformative potential, many are inadvertently expanding their attack surface and introducing risks that didn’t exist just months ago.

Managing a Smart Building: A Modern Approach to Networked Environments

Smart Buildings are no longer futuristic concepts—they’re living, evolving ecosystems. Managing the underlying networks that power them, particularly a Converged Network System (CNS), requires a new mindset.

Cybersecurity Strategy: Platform Approach vs. Point Solutions

Organisations today face an unprecedented challenge in cybersecurity. As digital threats evolve in sophistication and scale, security teams must continuously adapt their defensive strategies to protect critical assets and data.

Finding the Sweet Spot: Managing Enterprise AI Security Without Stifling Innovation

I am witnessing first-hand how organisations are grappling with one of today’s most pressing cybersecurity challenges: the explosive growth of generative AI in the workplace.

Wi-Fi for an Automated Warehouse

With a fully automated warehouse, Wi-Fi coverage and reliability are king. Ideal has just won a tender for the design, implementation and support of a Wi-Fi installation in a fully automated warehouse.