Passwords alone are no longer enough to protect accountancy firms from the increasingly prevalent threat posed by cyber criminals, with everything from phishing to brute force being resorted to by cyber attackers to access confidential information and steal funds. Serving as just one answer to the high demands of modern cyber security, multi-factor authentication [...]
HMRC is the UK tax, payments, and customs authority. As a governmental body, HMRC holds a significant quantity of confidential personal data and financial information. Unfortunately, this makes impersonating HMRC a prime choice for cybercriminals. HMRC cyberattacks centre around phishing. Opportunistic cybercriminals masquerade as HMRC, often using emails, texts, or phone calls, with a [...]
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 [...]
Pro Drive IT recently ran a roundtable exercise titled “How to avoid cyber annihilation of your firm”, which as the name suggest was designed to educate the attendees on the cyber security risks to their business and to give them some practical advice and tips on how to respond if (when!) an incident occurs [...]
If you are a regular follower of this blog or our newsletters, you will have noticed that we have published a lot of content on Microsoft Copilot and more generally on generative AI over the past 12 months. So why are we so excited about Copilot? Well, generative AI as a whole makes the [...]
Pro Drive IT, a leading provider of IT support and cybersecurity services for businesses in London and the Southeast and a specialist in working with Accountancy Practices, is excited to announce their participation in the upcoming Accountex London Exhibition taking place on 14th and the 15th May 2025 at ExCeL London. The Accountex Exhibition [...]
We recently wrote about the danger of impersonation scams and highlighted how generative AI is making these scams more convincing, in particular ‘Vishing’ which usually centres around telephone based scams. A more recent development, particularly worrying for professional and financial services firms, is voice cloning. This might sound like something from the Terminator but [...]
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