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 sector, Pro Drive are longstanding patrons of the SLS and proud to support an event that recognises the outstanding talent [...]
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. They have been a long term client of Pro Drive’s for over 5 years. Services we provide to MSP: Strategic [...]
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 staff but they can't work and therefore can't charge out to your clients. Every minute your team can’t access critical systems [...]
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 attack involves a cybercriminal ‘stealing’ your mobile phone number by requesting a new SIM card (usually an e-SIM) from your [...]
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 a specialist cyber security company as well as their IT Managed Service Provider (IT provider). Their argument was that this would save [...]
Reflecting back on Accountex 2025, we summarise the emerging tech trends and the results from this years Pro Drive IT in Accounting Benchmarking Survey. Accountex is the premier event for accountants, finance professionals, and bookkeepers. The 2025 event was the busiest ever with over 12,000 unique attendees and the Pro Drive stand was busy [...]
Our Technical Director, Matt Taylor, summarises the 2025 Accountex exhibition and latest Pro Drive IT news from it. In May Pro Drive returned to Accountex for our 2nd year exhibiting there. For those of you reading this that have never heard of Accountex (also known as ACX) it’s the largest finance and accounting expo [...]
In recent months, cyber-attacks on high profile retail businesses including Marks & Spencer (M&S) and the Co-op have made the news headlines. This has affected many customers of these businesses, not just in terms of product availability, but also by having their personal data sold to criminals on the dark web. Of even greater [...]
We currently live in a more unstable and unpredictable world which is putting pressure on all businesses. Whether it is the global macroeconomic impact of Trump’s trade policies, the impact of wars raging on several continents or the increase in national insurance (effectively an employment tax) we have seen in the UK, businesses are [...]
We recently ran the latest in our series of workshops for accountants, lawyers and financial services firms on how they can start leverage AI to give their firms a competitive edge. These are small intimate workshops featuring live demos of Microsoft Copilot in action and presentations from experts running through the practical steps you [...]
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