About Bruce Penson

Managing Director of Pro Drive IT

Why UK Law Firms Should Keep an Eye on the Online Safety Act

2025-11-24T11:07:57+00:00November 20th, 2025|Cyber Security, Law|

Whilst the Online Safety Act might initially only seem to be aimed at social media and big tech platforms, it has important knock-on effects for UK law firms, especially when it comes to data protection, client trust, and your law firm’s reputation. What is the Online Safety Act? In essence, the Online Safety Act aims to make online platforms [...]

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The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and its Implications for UK Law Firms

2025-11-24T11:07:34+00:00November 13th, 2025|Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Law|

The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) makes it safer for consumers and businesses to purchase software and hardware products with a digital component. To understand more about what this means for UK law firms, read on for an overview of what this law covers, how it relates to the UK, and its implications for [...]

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How UK Law Firms Can Maintain Security and Client Confidentiality When Using Copilot

2025-11-24T10:39:13+00:00November 6th, 2025|AI, Law|

Microsoft Copilot can be a powerful tool for legal work, but it carries inherent risks for client data. Law firms can still safely use Copilot and other AI tools without risking client confidentiality, but only as long as practical steps are taken to prevent data leaks and ensure compliance. Read on to learn more [...]

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Celebrating Excellence at the Surrey Law Society Legal Awards 2025

2025-11-24T10:29:19+00:00October 27th, 2025|Law|

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 [...]

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Client spotlight: MSP Organisation

2025-09-18T09:18:37+01:00September 18th, 2025|Company News, Cyber Security|

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 [...]

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Why IT outages hit professional services firms hard – and the simple strategy to avoid it

2025-09-17T20:43:10+01:00September 17th, 2025|Productivity, Security and Threats|

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 [...]

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SIM swapping fraud – why you NEED to protect yourself NOW

2025-09-12T10:49:43+01:00September 12th, 2025|Cyber Security, Security and Threats, Tips and Advice|

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 [...]

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Think you need a cyber security consultant? Check what your IT company is doing

2025-08-07T17:41:51+01:00August 7th, 2025|Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Tips and Advice|

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 [...]

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Accountex IT benchmarking results

2025-07-04T21:39:32+01:00July 4th, 2025|Accountants, Company News|

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 [...]

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What happened during Accountex 2025

2025-06-03T21:55:02+01:00June 3rd, 2025|Accountants, Company News|

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 [...]

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