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Josh // Springthorpe
Technical Account Manager at Huntress. Practical cybersecurity for MSPs and IT professionals — no jargon, no scare tactics.
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Technical Account Manager at Huntress. Practical cybersecurity for MSPs and IT professionals — no jargon, no scare tactics.
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Frontline ambulance technician turned cybersecurity professional. Not a career path you see very often, but it turns out triage skills transfer surprisingly well.
I spent the better part of a decade in the NHS — occupational therapy assistant, physiotherapy assistant, then frontline ambulance technician with West Midlands Ambulance Service. At 28 I decided that wasn't stressful enough and pivoted into IT via an apprenticeship.
Five years as technical and security manager at a UK MSP followed — deploying security stacks for small businesses, responding to incidents, and watching the same avoidable problems play out over and over.
I am now a Technical Account Manager at Huntress Labs. That gives me firsthand experience in this space and, obviously, a point of view. This site reflects my own expertise, opinions and practical experience. It is not an official Huntress channel, and nothing here should be taken as a formal company position.
I'll sometimes share or amplify Huntress content here when I think it's genuinely useful. When I do, I'm sharing it as an individual on my own platform, not speaking on behalf of the company.
If something works I'll say so. If something doesn't, I'll say that too. The goal is simple: useful, honest cybersecurity education and advice without the usual nonsense.
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Six areas. All practical, all grounded in what's actually happening in UK MSPs and IT teams right now.
Conditional Access, Defender, Secure Score, identity hardening. The platform most UK SMBs live on — and the one attackers know best.
RBAC, resource hardening, Sentinel, cost-conscious architecture. Cloud security that doesn't require a dedicated team to maintain.
Active campaigns targeting UK organisations. NCSC advisories translated into what you actually need to do — rather than what the advisory says you should do.
Cyber Essentials walkthroughs, real configurations, free tooling. The stuff that blocks the vast majority of attacks without a six-figure budget.
How attackers use AI right now, and how defenders can too. What's real, what's hype, and what actually changes your risk posture.
Non-traditional routes, honest advice, and what nobody tells you before you make the jump. I came from the NHS at 28 — the non-linear path is a feature, not a bug.
I work at Huntress Labs. This site reflects my own expertise, opinions and practical experience — not an official Huntress position. If something works I'll say so. If something doesn't, I'll say that too.
Everything is free. Most of it is practical. Some of it is mildly sarcastic about the state of the industry.
Talks, panels, and podcasts on practical cybersecurity for UK MSPs and IT professionals.
// Upcoming
No events currently scheduled — follow LinkedIn for announcements.
Open to speaking engagements on the topics I cover — conferences, MSP events, podcasts, and webinars. If it's useful to an MSP or IT audience, I'm interested.
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Whether you've got a question, a topic suggestion, or want to collaborate — I genuinely want to hear from you.
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