Adaptive - Drupal Support and Development

The results of the recent Adaptive Client Survey are in - and we're absolutely delighted with them!

Adaptive achieves a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of +75 (+70 or higher is considered 'world class') with half of all respondents to the survey rating us 10/10 in answering the question "How likely are you to recommend Adaptive to others?"

Some of the comments on the (anonymous) survey have also really put a smile on our faces too, including:

"Very responsive and experienced service provided at all times. Adaptive takes the time to understand the needs of us as a customer and works alongside us to reach the required goal or outcome. We have an excellent relationship with Adaptive who understands our individual needs and requirements as a business."

"I am so glad we moved to Adaptive! You've been brilliant, working on our website's many problems to get us back into good shape."

We also received some great feedback on what else we could do to continue improving our services and we're working towards addressing some of those in the coming months.

Read the full results of the survey and give us a shout if you want to find out more about why so many of our existing Drupal clients would recommend us to others!

Adaptive client survey produces superb results | Adaptive Drupal Specialists The results of the recent Adaptive Client Survey are in - and we're absolutely delighted with them!

WAF and AGCDN. Two acronyms - one whole extra level of security protection for your website.

If you're looking to do everything you can to protect your website from potential security attacks, there are two aspects of your hosting environment that should be absolute musts - a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Advanced Global CDN (AGCDN).

Both deliver additional enterprise-grade layers of protection around your website and hosting environment, combining to check that every request made to your site is non-malicious and that responses to as many of the requests as possible can be delivered without actually hitting your main server.

Find out more in our latest Insights post...

The benefits of using WAF and Advanced Global CDN tools on your Drupal website| Adaptive Drupal Specialists A Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Advanced Global CDN (AGCDN) are two enterprise-grade layers of security protection that you really should be using around your Drupal website and hosting environment.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is considered the third most critical security risk to web applications by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)

Our latest Insights post takes a look at XSS, one of the more sophisticated tricks used by attackers.

We explain what XSS is, how it can be used against your website and visitors, and how you can protect your website against potential exploits.

How cross-site scripting vulnerabilities can harm your Drupal website | Adaptive Drupal Specialists We look at one of the more sophisticated tricks used by attackers - cross-site scripting (XSS).

"While 65% of all respondents have some form of cybersecurity education...the reality is that 62% almost always or mostly use the same or variation of a password."

We don't want to tempt fate on Friday 13th but have you ever considered that most websites - your organisation's own included - could be just one password away from being exploited?

Our latest insights post explores just that - and it certainly makes you sit up and think much more carefully about your passwords and general online account security.

Is your website just one password away from being exploited? | Adaptive Drupal Specialists "Many websites are just one password away from being hacked and exploited." That sounds like a very overdramatic statement but, in many cases, it's very much true. Here at Adaptive, we aim not to unnecessarily alarm people or use scare tactics to sell our services. However, this particular statement...

Cyber security is one of our key focuses for 2023 here at Adaptive - and we strongly recommend that it be one of yours too.

In the first of a number of posts on the subject over the next couple of weeks, here's why your business or organisation should be prioritising security in 2023.

Why cyber security should be high on your 2023 To Do list | Adaptive Drupal Specialists Cyber security is one of our key focuses for 2023 - and it should be one of yours too.

Happy New Year from all of us at Adaptive! In our first insights post of 2023, we’re looking ahead to what the coming months look like for us here at Adaptive and in the wider world of .

Our focuses for the year include ensuring cyber security is a top priority for all our clients, continuing to grow our Drupal hosting partnership with Pantheon and moving more of our clients to the new .

We've also got various development projects in the mix which we're looking forward to seeing launch in the coming months.

Read more at https://www.adaptive.co.uk/insights/adaptive-drupal-preview-2023 and here’s to 2023 – may it be a positive and successful year for all!

Adaptive Drupal preview of 2023| Adaptive Drupal Specialists We’re looking ahead to what 2023 looks like for us here at Adaptive and in the wider world of Drupal.

Adaptive are proud to announce that we are now a Pantheon Diamond Partner - one of only a handful of agencies in the UK to be actively working with Pantheon in such close partnership.

Pantheon provide the backbone to Adaptive's Managed Hosting Service for Drupal websites and have been instrumental in helping us to deliver superb levels of support, security and reliability to each of our Managed Hosting clients.

Read more on our successful partnership here: https://www.adaptive.co.uk/insights/adaptive-are-now-pantheon-diamond-partners

Adaptive's MD, Dan Frost, features in Pantheon's upcoming webinar on "Security & Performance from the Edge" on Wednesday 7th December. Register here: https://pantheon.io/webops-security-and-performance-from-the-edge-webinar

Adaptive are now Pantheon Diamond Partners | Adaptive Drupal Specialists Adaptive are proud to announce that we are now a Pantheon Diamond Partner - one of only a handful of Drupal agencies in the UK to be actively working with Pantheon in such close partnership.

Our crazy colleague, Larissa, is cycling coast-to-coast this weekend from St Bees to Whitby. But, not content with that, she's then cycling all the way back again too!

It's all in aid of Adaptive's chosen charity for this year, the Friends of the Baby Unit - FOBU - The Royal Derby Hospital

All donations, no matter how big or small, are very much appreciated. Donate if you can via JustGiving: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/AdaptiveWebLtd

It's a cause very close to our collective hearts here at Adaptive and we're delighted to support them with fundraising over the next 12 months.

Find out more about FoBU's amazing work at https://www.fobuderby.co.uk/

There was some very good news last night for Drupal 7 website owners as it was announced that the End of Life date for D7 has been extended by at least a further year to November 2023.

We've been busy working with a number of our Drupal 7 clients to get their sites rebuilt in Drupal 9 ahead of D7 reaching EOL, originally expected to be November this year.

However, for others, we know that time/resource/budget restrictions have meant that upgrading from Drupal 7 is far from a straightforward task for them. Looking at the D7 usage stats, it's clear that they're not alone.

Yesterday's announcement on Drupal.org explains that "a majority of all sites in the Drupal project are still on Drupal 7" and that there is therefore "a clear need to provide additional support to the members of our community still using this version."

While our advice, and that of the wider Drupal community, is still to look at making the move to Drupal 9 if and when you can, the extension to the End of Life date does at least give businesses and organisations much-welcomed additional time to plan their next steps.

Our latest Insights post has more on the announcement and we're always available on email or phone to discuss any specific questions that you may have about Drupal 7 EOL and what it means for your business or organisation's website.

https://www.adaptive.co.uk/insights/drupal-7-end-life-date-extended-november-2023

Drupal 7 End of Life date extended to November 2023 | Adaptive Drupal Specialists Good news for Drupal 7 site owners - Drupal 7 will now reach End of Life no earlier than November 2023.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) has become an increasingly-core element of any organisation's security policy.

Adding MFA as part of the login process on all important systems and services heavily minimises the risk of any user accounts being accessed and exploited, even if the primary login details are somehow discovered by criminals.

For organisations with Drupal websites, Adaptive provides an MFA solution for Drupal which utilises a leading MFA tool that can be integrated seamlessly into existing websites.

Read more: https://www.adaptive.co.uk/insights/harden-your-website-security-mfa-drupal

Working with Adaptive has always guaranteed our clients outstanding levels of security and rigour - and now it's official!

We're proud to have been awarded accredited ISO 27001 certification, the international standard for information security management.

Adaptive's certification comes after a rigorous assessment process that thoroughly reviewed all aspects of our information security management system and validated that we have everything in place to protect corporate information and data, both online and offline.

Certification to the ISO 27001 Standard is recognised worldwide and demonstrates that our processes, people and technology are aligned with information security best practices.

Read more:

ISO 27001 certified Drupal agency | Adaptive Drupal Specialists Adaptive are ISO 27001 certified, giving you full confidence that your Drupal website and data is supported, hosted and managed under the highest information security management standards.

We're delighted to say that Adaptive remain a Crown Commercial Service Supplier after being awarded a place on the latest Digital Outcomes and Specialists 5 framework, which goes live today.

We've been a supplier on the UK Government's Digital Marketplace since 2016 and are pleased to be able to continue offering our Drupal support, development and hosting services to the Public Sector via the framework.

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Adaptive awarded place on Digital Outcomes and Specialists 5 framework | Adaptive Drupal Specialists Adaptive's support, development and hosting services for Drupal continue to be available on the UK Government's Digital Marketplace following the launch of the latest framework.