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The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has just released its annual review covering the period from 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2023. You can read the report yourself by visiting the NCSC website. [...]
If you are using Microsoft 365 and have a license for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard or Business Premium you may have recently noticed a new ‘button’ appearing in the bar of the [...]
Accountants have accelerated their transition from paper-based to digital-based systems, particularly embracing modern cloud-based bookkeeping and practice management software. However, accountants remain highly appealing targets for cybercriminals: Many SME firms lack the resources to [...]
In a clear demonstration of its intent to take action against data breaches resulting from poor cybersecurity practices, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which regulates and enforces the UK's data protection laws, recently issued [...]
Pro Drive IT’s Technical Director Matt Taylor shares his thoughts on how automation can benefit SME businesses: I recently attended a workshop with staff from two other technology firms about to discuss how we [...]
Microsoft have recently announced the release date for their Copilot artificial intelligence engine for Windows and the Microsoft 365 suite, including the Office apps. The Windows update is already available and will gradually be [...]
We recently wrote about the increase in ‘supply chain cyber attacks’ and how the UK and EU governments are terrified about their impact on the economy. If you are a professional services firm, you [...]
Choosing a mobile phones can be quite a personal decision – even when it comes to it being for business use. In fact many smartphones being used for business purposes are in fact owned [...]
We recently wrote about the increase in ‘supply chain cyber attacks’ and how the UK and EU governments are terrified about their impact on the economy. This has been on the radar of larger [...]
The UK government has identified supply chain security as being a key risk to the UK economy. As reported by the National Cyber Security Centre, cyber-attacks launched on businesses via their suppliers have significantly [...]
If you have been looking at replacing or upgrading a major software system recently, such as a practice management or case management system, you will no doubt have encountered the terms ‘Cloud’, ’SaaS’ and [...]
In the second part of our series on mobile phone cyber security following our recent webinar on the subject we look at the latest attacks on millions of UK Android phone users as well [...]
There are several reasons why your business should be embracing IT automation. ‘Working smarter’ – if you aren’t using automation to be more productive and efficient, there will be other firms who are getting ahead [...]
We're focusing here on how using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Number-Matching can help businesses protect themselves against cyber attacks. Recently, Microsoft has set this feature as the default option for all Authenticator Push notifications to further [...]
If you didn’t attend our recent mobile phone security webinar, you may wonder what all the fuss is about – surely mobile phones are protected against cyber threats you ask. Unfortunately you have to remember [...]
In this third in our series of blogs on law firm email security, we explain where you can level up your game to mitigate the risks of suffering a cyber attack. In our previous [...]
You may have seen – and be concerned by – news reports that the advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are starting to threaten some people’s jobs. This includes AI in accounting - but instead [...]
In our previous blog post, we discussed the impact that email cyber security threats can have on law firms and how they continue to be a significant risk. In this follow-up post, we will [...]
There is currently a lot of talk in the media about people following or not following rules they have set. And an underlying feeling amongst some that those in a privileged position appear [...]
In this first blog of our series on email cyber threats to law firms, we look at how an email can damage your law firm and why it is still a big threat. A single [...]
