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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Why Multi-Factor Authentication is Essential for Modern Accountancy Firms

2025-07-11T10:54:57+01:00July 29th, 2025|Accountants, Company News, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Tips and Advice|

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 [...]

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Protecting Your Firm and Clients from HMRC Phishing Scams

2025-07-11T10:50:45+01:00July 25th, 2025|Accountants, Company News, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Tips and Advice|

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 [...]

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Top Cyberattack Approaches Threatening the Legal Industry

2025-07-11T10:27:55+01:00July 15th, 2025|AI, Company News, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security|

With an advanced toolkit of cyberattacks methods at their disposal, cyber criminals are continually finding new ways to deceive computer systems and access sensitive legal data. From targeting junior lawyers to the use of sophisticated AI, it has never been more imperative for law firms to be astutely aware of the danger of cyberattacks [...]

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How the Government Will Reform Cyber Laws in the UK

2024-12-10T21:35:07+00:00October 11th, 2024|Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Law, Tips and Advice|

In the face of a startling increase in the sophistication and frequency of cyberattacks in the UK, especially against essential everyday services including water, energy, and transport, the UK government has confirmed their plans to strengthen the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulations to protect these essential and digital services from cyber threats. What [...]

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Cyber Security: Best Practices for Accounting Firms

2024-12-10T21:42:18+00:00October 11th, 2024|Accountants, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Security and Threats|

Impressive advancements in technology are made daily, including an increase in the sophistication of cyber security threats. As cyber criminals continue to become more advanced in their approach, an ever-increasing challenge is posed to accounting firms in particular. To ensure client data is secure, it is essential that accounting firms are aware of the [...]

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Cyber Security – How It’s Changed and How To Futureproof Your Business

2024-07-29T11:09:36+01:00July 29th, 2024|Accountants, AI, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Financial Services, Law, Tips and Advice|

The stability and security of IT systems may be something brought to your attention recently on a global scale; July 2024’s IT outage saw transport, healthcare, banks, and media outlets affected by an issue that originated with Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity company based in America. Whilst this particular problem wasn’t caused by a security breach, [...]

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Data security (and other) challenges you may not have considered when hiring an external contractor

2024-04-15T11:36:34+01:00April 15th, 2024|Compliance, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Productivity, Remote Working, Technology News, Tips and Advice|

Pro Drive recently undertook an exercise to look for a part time virtual assistant to help out our team with some administration work to free up more time to focus on working with our clients. However, what we expected to be a straightforward process became more challenging once we took into consideration our data [...]

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Pro Drive’s summary of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre annual review

2023-12-11T15:58:03+00:00November 29th, 2023|Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Energy, Security and Threats|

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has just released its annual review covering the period from 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2023. You can read the report yourself by visiting the NCSC website. However, if you are short on time, Pro Drive has summarized the key points that SME businesses should be aware [...]

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How to create a questionnaire to audit your suppliers’ cyber security in 15 minutes

2023-09-28T17:38:34+01:00September 28th, 2023|Accountants, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Security and Threats, Tips and Advice|

We recently wrote about the increase in ‘supply chain cyber attacks’ and how the UK and EU governments are terrified about their impact on the economy. If you are a professional services firm, you may be the target of a ‘supply chain attack’ with cyber criminals looking to use data you hold to run [...]

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