About Bruce Penson

Managing Director of Pro Drive IT

Pro Drive offer new Cyber Security Services

2017-12-06T19:06:20+00:00January 9th, 2017|Company News|

As the risk from cyber threats continues to grow, Pro Drive has added a range of additional services to help protect our clients and reduce the worry that a cyber attack could cause downtime to your business, cost you money or affect your clients. Chief among these is our fully managed 'Security Information Event Management' service. [...]

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Are You Really An “Always On” Organisation?

2017-07-20T10:20:34+01:00January 5th, 2017|Business Continuity, Security and Threats|

“Business hours” has become an almost meaningless expression. More now than ever, customers expect to shop, bank and engage with businesses around the clock. Time zones are also increasingly meaningless, with the Internet driving forward a new era of globalisation. With e-commerce, automation, social networks and self-service, consumers and clients can make purchases, get in [...]

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Don’t Get Complacent About Ransomware!

2017-07-18T13:14:24+01:00December 13th, 2016|Security and Threats|

When you live and breath IT and information security, it is easy to forget that not everyone in your organisation is on the same page. Take ransomware for example. We - IT professionals - are actively monitoring the cyber threat landscape; we take a great interest in finding out about the latest threats. In fact [...]

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A Social Engineering Tale – You’re Getting Scammed, Buddy!

2017-12-06T19:08:41+00:00November 25th, 2016|Security and Threats|

Talking to my clients on a daily basis, it seems that many of them still think cyber crime only ever happens to somebody else! However, the reality is that cyber crime is now more profitable than the illegal drug trade. This is partly because entry into a life of cyber crime is a lot easier and less [...]

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Cyber Fraud – Two of the Biggest Scams Uncovered

2017-12-06T18:59:59+00:00November 22nd, 2016|Business Continuity, Security and Threats, Tips and Advice|

Here is the low down on two of the most common ransomware scams that you need to know about. The pay rise/redundancy scam Cyber criminals create an email that looks similar to that of a director. For example, joe.bloggs@acme.co.uk is changed to joe.bloggs@acme.com. Sometimes the email is also 'spoofed' so that it appears in your inbox as [...]

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Key People To Connect With During A Major IT Incident

2017-07-19T15:39:55+01:00November 17th, 2016|Business Continuity, Security and Threats|

When a major IT incident occurs, disaster recovery and business continuity plans come into their own.  With a cool head CEOs, CIOs, IT directors and other key people can do a lot towards limiting damage to the business, exposure to threats, and managing the outcome of the IT incident. As part of disaster planning it [...]

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The internet of things and fat cats…where’s the link?

2017-08-07T13:07:37+01:00October 21st, 2016|Technology News|

Most of us in the IT industry are constantly being reminded that the 'Internet of Things' is the next big thing.  It is a concept that is somewhat perplexing for us IT people and no doubt more confusing for the wider public.  We explored what the term means in a recent blog article essentially it is a [...]

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Failing To Plan, Is Planning To Fail: Disaster Recovery And BCP

2017-07-19T14:26:38+01:00October 17th, 2016|Business Continuity, Security and Threats|

What kind of business protection do you have in place? Public liability insurance, business premises and assets insurance, professional indemnity insurance? No doubt your business has a host of insurance policies, but what about your information technology – what’s protecting that? When something goes wrong - whether it’s a natural disaster such as flood or [...]

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Join Team Pro Drive in the Kelly’s Cross Country Challenge!

2017-07-19T15:37:23+01:00October 5th, 2016|Company News|

Pro Drive will be joining in at the Kelly's Cross Country Challenge on Sunday 16th October, located in the beautiful grounds of Loseley Park - the home of our offices. There are plenty of options from walks, children’s races all the way through to a half marathon for the energetic amongst us.  Please come along and join [...]

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Why Your Business’ IT Is A 24/7 Operation

2017-07-20T10:33:39+01:00September 23rd, 2016|Business Continuity, Security and Threats, Tips and Advice|

Not many businesses or organisations can turn the sign on the door to ‘closed’, switch off the lights and forget about work until the following morning. In today’s world most business need to be ‘always on’, even when their business premises are locked up for the night. Other businesses are operating 24/7 anyway, with global [...]

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