How do I choose a secure smartphone for my business?

2023-09-08T11:58:49+01:00September 8th, 2023|Compliance, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security|

Choosing a mobile phones can be quite a personal decision – even when it comes to it being for business use.  In fact many smartphones being used for business purposes are in fact owned by staff and not the company. Most staff do not wish to carry a personal and business phone and businesses [...]

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Mobile Device Management – what it is and using it

2022-03-28T23:02:51+01:00November 2nd, 2021|Compliance, Cyber Security, Tips and Advice|

Mobile Device Management is being deployed by many organisations. If you are using your business mobile device and your company requires a secure way of protecting the data on it (for example if they need to be certified to the UK Government Cyber Essentials standard), they may choose to put controls on the mobile device [...]

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Why Working from Home Could Take Down Your Business – Beware These Security Threats

2020-10-27T10:07:24+00:00April 19th, 2020|Accountants, Business Continuity, Compliance, Cyber Security, Financial Services, GDPR, Productivity, Remote Working, Security and Threats|

Most business IT systems weren’t designed for everyone to be working from home at the same time — yet that is exactly what is happening right now across the country. In the rush to keep businesses operational, systems have been hastily scaled up to get people working remotely, without a second thought given to [...]

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Taking Care of the Essentials for Financial Services

2020-02-05T10:20:26+00:00March 28th, 2019|Compliance, Cyber Essentials, Financial Services, GDPR|

If you work in the financial services sector, you’ll already be well aware of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the various regulations and guidelines it puts in place to ensure financial markets are honest, fair and effective. The authority regulates more than 58,000 financial businesses from the largest banks, insurers and market infrastructure providers [...]

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Why Accountants Need Cyber Essentials…

2022-11-25T10:39:03+00:00November 27th, 2018|Company News, Compliance, Cyber Essentials, Security and Threats|

For those that may not be aware, there is a government backed standard for cyber security, called Cyber Essentials. It is, in simple terms, a way for businesses to demonstrate a responsible approach to cyber security, protecting both themselves and their clients. Cyber security is something we all need to take seriously: currently around [...]

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The post GDPR landscape: Our findings

2018-09-26T09:32:37+01:00September 26th, 2018|Compliance, GDPR|

With the panic over to ‘comply’ with GDPR, it is seen as becoming more of a day to day compliance matter.  Of course, this assumes that organisations have the correct processes embedded in their day to day business and their staff are trained on and aware of the implications.  We still find there are many [...]

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What is Cyber Essentials and why does my Law firm need to have it?

2020-07-16T09:21:13+01:00July 26th, 2018|Compliance, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, GDPR, Law, Security and Threats|

If you are reading this article there is a good chance you already know what Cyber Essentials is.  For those that do not, Cyber Essentials is a UK Government backed standard for business cyber security which helps you guard against the most common Cyber Security threats. In fact experts believe that by adopting Cyber Essentials [...]

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May 2018: A Game Changing Month for Data

2018-05-23T09:33:32+01:00May 23rd, 2018|Compliance, Tips and Advice|

From “I’m sorry to see you go”, to “Urgent: Take action NOW!”, inboxes around the world are awash with panicked attempts to comply with GDPR and hold onto as many customer contact details as possible. Some companies, such as JD Wetherspoon, opted to save itself the trouble and deleted the entire database. They made more [...]

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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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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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