# GEN - UK's Premier IT Service Provider since 1989 GEN, the UK's longest-running Corporate Internet Service Provider. Specialising in Cyber Security, IT Outsourcing, Network Infrastructure, and Technical Support Source: https://www.gen.uk Retrieved: 2026-11-12 13:14 UTC --- # Global Enterprise Networks (GEN): the UK's longest established business IT provider ![Inside a GEN data centre](https://www.gen.uk/images/DC2.jpg) 13:14:14 Global UTC 05:14:14 Los Angeles 08:14:14 New York 13:14:14 Dakar 13:14:14 London 14:14:14 Paris 15:14:14 Bucharest 16:14:14 Moscow 16:14:14 Nairobi 17:14:14 Dubai 21:14:14 Shanghai 00:14:14 Sydney [Remote Access: The Safe Options Are Running Out Breaches, critical flaws, vanishing free tiers and year-long contracts have left few remote access tools worth trusting, and NoMachine is the latest to go this way. What has changed, why a resident agent is the real risk, and what to use instead: RDP, VNC and Sunshine, behind a WireGuard mesh and never on the internet.](https://www.gen.uk/index.php?page=Home&option=Blog&article=20261103) [Genuinely Secure Instant Messaging Why the popular messaging apps carry inherent flaws for anyone with a real adversary, and how to build messaging properly: a hardened Synapse server, a reverse proxy in a carefully chosen jurisdiction, keys on hardware with the user, a thin client that stores nothing, and a WireGuard mesh with MFA in front of it all.](https://www.gen.uk/index.php?page=Home&option=Blog&article=20261028) [PHP2Shell: A Critical Score, a Modest Risk, and 3,900 Hosts Patched Two PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, were fixed on 21 October 2026 to a global reaction out of proportion to the real risk. How GEN patched around 3,900 client hosts within minutes of the packages appearing, and why our own servers went last.](https://www.gen.uk/index.php?page=Home&option=Blog&article=20261023) ![EnergyStar Certification](https://www.gen.uk/images/energystar.webp) ![GoUltraLow Certification](https://www.gen.uk/images/goultralowbw.webp) ![Renewable Energy Datacentre Consortium](https://www.gen.uk/images/renewable.webp) ![Green Datacentre Association UK, certified service provider](https://www.gen.uk/images/GDCA.png) ![Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact](https://www.gen.uk/images/cndc.png) ![SME Climate Hub](https://www.gen.uk/images/thirdparty/SME-Committed-Badge-2024.png) ![Gov.uk Digital Outcomes and Specialists](https://www.gen.uk/images/docsis.webp) ![HP Business Partners](https://www.gen.uk/images/hppartner.png) ![Apple Specialists](https://www.gen.uk/images/apple.png) ![Draytek Experts](https://www.gen.uk/images/DraytekDealer.png) ![HPE Partners](https://www.gen.uk/images/HPE.png) ![Synology Partners](https://www.gen.uk/images/synologypartner.png) ![EnergyStar Certification](https://www.gen.uk/images/energystar.webp) ![GoUltraLow Certification](https://www.gen.uk/images/goultralowbw.webp) ![Renewable Energy Datacentre Consortium](https://www.gen.uk/images/renewable.webp) ![Green Datacentre Association UK, certified service provider](https://www.gen.uk/images/GDCA.png) ![Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact](https://www.gen.uk/images/cndc.png) ![SME Climate Hub](https://www.gen.uk/images/thirdparty/SME-Committed-Badge-2024.png) ![Gov.uk Digital Outcomes and Specialists](https://www.gen.uk/images/docsis.webp) ![HP Business Partners](https://www.gen.uk/images/hppartner.png) ![Apple Specialists](https://www.gen.uk/images/apple.png) ![Draytek Experts](https://www.gen.uk/images/DraytekDealer.png) ![HPE Partners](https://www.gen.uk/images/HPE.png) ![Synology Partners](https://www.gen.uk/images/synologypartner.png) ## Global Enterprise Networks ![autumn](https://www.gen.uk/images/seasons/gen_autumn.webp) Clean Green Autumn GEN has been a trading partnership since 1989. The structure matters: a partnership means the people responsible for the business are the same people dealing with customers, and that accountability shapes everything about how we work. Some of our customers have been with us for nearly thirty years. They stay because the service is genuinely good, not because contracts make it awkward to leave. Every client has their own account manager, who knows their systems and can be reached directly by email, Matrix or their own phone line. When something goes wrong in the small hours, the HelpDesk takes tickets around the clock, answered within your service level. We cover a wide range of technology: connectivity and hosting, cloud and virtualisation, encrypted voice, messaging and email, cyber security, IT outsourcing, big data, bespoke software, AI integration, and managed infrastructure. On the support side, we go deep on the platforms businesses actually run on: Proxmox, Linux, HPE, Synology, DrayTek, Teltonika, Asterisk, FreePBX, Microsoft, and Apple, some of which we have been supporting since the early 1990s. Legacy systems are fine. Platforms others have retired are fine. If it runs, we can support it. Our software division builds and maintains bespoke systems, and has done since the beginning. We still support software we wrote in the early 2000s. That is not sentimentality; it is a commitment to owning the responsibility for systems we build for as long as they are in use. Both our UK data centres run on green power from solar and wind: our own panels on site, and green energy we buy in when we need more. Whether a given day is carbon neutral depends on load and the time of year, and our target is every day by 2030. We hold our supply chain to the same standard. We also carry out practical AI work: large language models, agent frameworks, workflow automation with n8n, and AI-integrated telephony and messaging. Not proof-of-concept work; production deployments running in businesses now. Solid British engineering. Extraordinary service. Available globally, around the clock. --- I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific., Lily Tomlin ## Exchange Rates One Pound Sterling | EUR € | 1.20 | | --- | --- | | CAD $ | 1.89 | | CNY ¥ | 8.86 | | HKD $ | 10.41 | | JPY ¥ | 211.88 | | RUB ₽ | 110.30 | | BRL R$ | 7.41 | | ARS $ | 2,050.56 | | CLP $ | 1,305.88 | | COP $ | 4,395.45 | | ZAR R | 22.04 | | KRW ₩ | 1,771.81 | | IDR Rp | 24,148.09 | | INR ₹ | 124.44 | | SGD $ | 1.70 | | THB ฿ | 44.81 | | MYR RM | 5.42 | | PHP ₱ | 84.06 | | VND ₫ | 34,063.85 | | AUD $ | 1.94 | | NZD $ | 2.39 | | MXN $ | 24.72 | | CHF Fr | 1.10 | | SEK kr | 13.23 | | NOK kr | 12.69 | | TRY ₺ | 66.73 | | PLN zł | 5.28 | Updated 2026-11-12 01:00:00 ## Zero Day