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For financial and professional services firms, data classification is no longer optional. With the growth of artificial intelligence in everyday tools, firms must understand exactly what information they hold, how sensitive it is, and [...]
For professional and financial services firms, information is one of the most valuable and sensitive business assets. However their data is stored if often stored inconsistently across email, shared drives, CRM systems and cloud [...]
We recently wrote about why having a framework for classifying your data is so important in the digital age and the hidden risks that firms are building by not investing time in doing this. [...]
With almost all legal and accountancy firms having gone fully digital, it’s safe to say that this most critical asset sits almost entirely on their IT systems. Of course, this has real benefits for [...]
Artificial Intelligence is already transforming the way professional services firms operate by improving efficiency, decision‑making, and client experience. But as adoption accelerates, so too do the legal, regulatory and ethical considerations. Our Technical Director [...]
Across the financial services sector, there’s enormous excitement about the promise of generative AI including tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot. The potential to save money, improve customer service and better identify risk is enormous, however many firms have jumped onto [...]
Pro Drive IT is delighted to be sponsoring and exhibiting at The Alternative Accountancy Management Summit 2026, taking place on 2–3 March at Wyboston Lakes Resort, Bedfordshire. The summit brings together leaders from the [...]
Opening your inbox first thing in the morning can feel overwhelming. Meeting invites, follow-up requests, and “quick questions” pile up before you’ve even started your day. It’s easy to lose hours reacting to emails [...]
The accountancy sector is changing rapidly with private equity backed firms growing rapidly from acquisition and creating competitive pressure on smaller practices. At the same time, recruiting and retaining staff remains a challenge and [...]
Microsoft have announced Microsoft 365 Copilot Business, launching 1st December 2025, designed for organisations with up to 300 users. At launch this contains the same feature set as the full Microsoft 365 Copilot but [...]
UK law firms face the delicate challenge of embracing AI innovation without compromising the confidentiality standards their clients rely on. AI has an extremely wide scope and is capable of an extraordinary range of [...]
Whilst the Online Safety Act might initially only seem to be aimed at social media and big tech platforms, it has important knock-on effects for UK law firms, especially when it comes to data protection, client trust, and [...]
The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) makes it safer for consumers and businesses to purchase software and hardware products with a digital component. To understand more about what this means for UK law firms, [...]
Microsoft Copilot can be a powerful tool for legal work, but it carries inherent risks for client data. Law firms can still safely use Copilot and other AI tools without risking client confidentiality, but [...]
Last week Pro Drive IT was delighted to attend the Surrey Law Society (SLS) Legal Awards 2025, held once again at G Live in Guildford. As providers of specialist IT support to the legal [...]
Our Managing Director, Bruce, recently caught up with Philippa Keith, CEO at MSP Organisation. MSP Organisation is a UK-based corporate services group that provides a wide range of specialist services to help businesses succeed. [...]
For all companies, downtime related to IT is costly and frustrating. For Accountancy and Law firms that charge by the hour it's worse as you're getting hit twice. You still have to pay your [...]
SIM swapping fraud is one of the fastest growing areas of cybercrime with reports doubling year on year, according to Action Fraud, the UK national reporting centre. What is SIM swapping? A SIM swapping [...]
By Matt Taylor, Technical Director I attended an event recently where a speaker on a panel session told the audience of small / medium business owners that they needed to engage the services of [...]
Passwords alone are no longer enough to protect accountancy firms from the increasingly prevalent threat posed by cyber criminals, with everything from phishing to brute force being resorted to by cyber attackers to access [...]
