About Bruce Penson

Managing Director of Pro Drive IT

The Big Freeze: Keeping Your Business Running

2018-03-27T16:22:57+01:00March 1st, 2018|Productivity|

With many of us waking up to snowy scenes across the country today, it can mean a winter wonderland for some.  But the reality is frustration for others, with commuting through standing traffic a struggle, businesses frustrated trying to identify whether staff will make it in and client work backing up. So we thought it [...]

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Open Banking – Big Opportunities For Your Company

2018-03-27T16:22:57+01:00January 26th, 2018|Technology News|

13th January 2018 marked a significant development in the banking ecosystem when a new directive called Open Banking came into force. This has the potential to disrupt the UK financial services sector and transform the way we handle money. The Open Banking programme is designed to open up banking data, forcing the UK’s nine largest [...]

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Embracing The Move Towards Remote Workers

2020-05-05T22:53:18+01:00January 24th, 2018|Productivity, Remote Working, Tips and Advice|

Is your workforce in the office? More and more law firms are offering staff the opportunity to work remotely, whether from a home office or from co-working spaces and cafes between client appointments. This trend is often attributed to the Millennial generation demanding more flexible and agile working, although it’s not just junior lawyers taking [...]

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Is Regulation a Friend or Foe?

2020-12-15T13:13:03+00:00January 22nd, 2018|Compliance|

For many organisations big data presents challenges and opportunities. No more so than in the financial services sector where the regulatory landscape provides an additional level of complexity. Many FS institutions are so overwhelmed by legislative requirements that they have few resources left to exploit their data for profitable ends. If your organisation feels like [...]

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6 Ways You Can Automate Your Business Without Robots

2018-11-07T12:15:43+00:00December 15th, 2017|Productivity|

The UK government views poor productivity as the most significant modern-day threat to our future economy. Far more so than Brexit. Improving productivity is one of the Chancellor's pet projects. And if the numbers are to be believed it is easy to see why. If productivity had grown in line with the pre-2008 trend, output [...]

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GDPR: Good News for Financial Services

2017-12-13T10:42:35+00:00December 8th, 2017|Compliance|

Spoiler alert! This is not another one of those articles about GDPR designed to put CEOs, Compliance Officers and CISCOs into a state of panic about how to get their business compliant by May 2018. No, instead this post is actually about why GDPR could be a good thing for the financial services industry, and [...]

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Accountants beware: Bad Rabbit Ransomware!

2018-07-09T11:35:35+01:00November 28th, 2017|Security and Threats|

What is it? Despite the name, it's not an influx of demented furry critters sent to destroy you by North Korea, but the latest Ransomware that could well be targeting UK businesses. Bad Rabbit has spread from Eastern Europe and Turkey via Germany where a mixture of businesses, including accountants were infected. Hot on the [...]

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The hidden menace about to blow your compliance

2017-11-28T11:57:07+00:00November 22nd, 2017|Tips and Advice|

There is a hidden gremlin lurking in the depth of your corporate IT network, both SME and Enterprise, that has the capability of blowing a huge hole through your compliance work.  No matter whether you are governed by an industry body such as the FCA for Financial Services markets or seeking to comply with cross [...]

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Password Hygiene: Protecting the Creative Industry

2017-11-28T11:57:07+00:00November 13th, 2017|Security and Threats|

Creative and marketing companies generally have to manage a large number of different passwords. There are numerous apps and SaaS tools available that creatives and marketers use day-in-day-out to create work, promote their businesses and, most importantly, manage their client accounts. These all require users to create an account to login, making them only as [...]

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DLA Piper – A Business Continuity Nightmare That Cost Millions

2017-12-19T18:00:52+00:00October 30th, 2017|Business Continuity|

On the morning of Tuesday June 27 th, employees coming in to work at the offices of DLA Piper, one of the world's largest law firms, were met with an unusual surprise. A whiteboard had been rolled out into the middle of the building lobby with "Attention: DLA Employees" written on it. "All network services [...]

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