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Data Breaches: How Pro Drive Can Help Your Accountancy Practice
By now, we are all well aware that data breaches pose a serious risk to accountancy practices (so much so that a breach could put your firm out of business). We have also explored some practical actions [...]
Data Breaches: Reducing Risks for Accountancy Practices
We recently explored why data breaches are an issue for accountancy practices and what can go wrong if you do suffer one. But what can you do to avoid one in the first place? Before looking [...]
Smarter Working: Top Tools for Staying Organised
Want to get more done at work without spending long hours slogging away in the office? We know how easy it is to get bogged down with all the tasks we need to get done. [...]
Why being Cyber Essentials Certified is ESSENTIAL
Is your company Cyber Essentials certified? If not, you may be missing out… Cyber Essentials is a UK Government standard based around configuring your IT systems in line with best practices and helping you to guard [...]
Data Breaches: Risky Business for Accountants
By now, we’re all well aware of the dangers of data breaches, right? Yet, time and time again, we see businesses fail to put appropriate measures in place to protect their data. Why is this [...]
Energy’s Renewed Reliance on Technology
Energy and IT: although two rather unlikely allies, digitalisation has slipped into the pocket of the energy industry, where we are now seeing a flourishing partnership begin to form. From blockchain technology to smart meters, [...]
Accountants – help your clients manage their mileage
If you are an accountant providing bookkeeping services, dealing with your client’s travelling expenses can be a frustrating task. Especially trawling through their (probably incomplete) mileage records? And worse: don’t you resent the time it [...]
How To Create a Google Account
If you don’t have a Google account or Gmail email address, you can easily create one here, it’s a very straightforward process; all you need is your name, birth date and gender! Just follow these [...]
Simple Steps to Update a Mac
If you keep finding yourself hitting ‘Remind me tomorrow’ whenever the pop-up nudges you to update your Apple Mac, then this article is for you! Whether you are working from a laptop or a desktop [...]
Is Your Business Neglecting Staff IT Training?
Although many businesses are increasingly turning to the latest IT technology and software to help bolster their service offering, an area that frequently gets overlooked is staff training. Often, a lot of effort goes into [...]
Accountants – Have You Embraced Automation Yet?
Compared to most other industries, accounting hasn’t seen much in the way of innovation over the years. But this could all change soon with the adoption of automated technologies. Previously confined to the likes of [...]
How to safely manage all my passwords
Imagine you had one key to all you most valued possessions. The same key that opened your car, would open the front door of your home or business, jewellery box or even you “Man Draw”! [...]
Biometrics Generation: Got a Chip on Your Shoulder?
Can you imagine a world where identity security solutions are so personalised, they are impossible to mimic or hack? There are currently three common ways to prove a person’s identity. Firstly, by means of something [...]
Top Secret: Secure Communications for Accountants
If you’re an accountant, your main job is to help clients get their finances straight. But there’s a lot more to it than that. Accountants deal with extremely sensitive personal data, as well as confidential [...]
Cut It Out: Using Microsoft Snip & Sketch
There’s a new screenshot tool in town and we’ve been making full use of it on our desktops here at Pro Drive IT. Windows 10 has long allowed you to take and save screenshots using [...]
The Death of the Password
It’s hard to believe that a solution first created in the 1960s is still the primary method used to protect our identities, information and vital business assets. Despite enthusiasm for technology designed to replace them, [...]
Struggling to Make Year-End Meet?
April: one of the busiest times of year for accountants. 5th April 2019 marked the official end of the tax year in the UK, but many people and companies will still be scrambling to complete [...]
Brexit: A Nightmare Deal for the IT Sector?
When the government invoked Article 50, the UK had a clear deadline for leaving the European Union: 29th March 2019. Following Theresa May’s request for an extension, that deadline has now moved to 12th April – but we are still no clearer [...]
Taking Care of the Essentials for Financial Services
If you work in the financial services sector, you’ll already be well aware of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the various regulations and guidelines it puts in place to ensure financial markets are honest, [...]
Smart Home, Smart Office
For several years, the use of smart technologies in our homes has been steadily increasing. Connected devices like the Amazon Echo, Google Home range and Hive’s smart home products now let you control your home [...]