Information Commissioners Office issues reprimand to Durham based law firm

2023-11-03T19:46:59+00:00November 3rd, 2023|Cyber Security, GDPR, Law|

In a clear demonstration of its intent to take action against data breaches resulting from poor cybersecurity practices, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which regulates and enforces the UK's data protection laws, recently issued a reprimand notice to Durham-based law firm Swinburne Snowball & Jackson (SSJ). The notice was issued as a result of [...]

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Why you should act on cybersecurity threats

2022-03-29T17:50:56+01:00March 17th, 2022|Cyber Security, Energy, Financial Services, GDPR, Law, Security and Threats, Tips and Advice|

Due to the conflict in Ukraine the government, the ICO and UK cyber experts generally are all urging SMEs to act against increased cybersecurity threats. The situation in Ukraine poses an increased risk of cyber attacks to businesses and exacerbates the rise in cybercrime seen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, partly due to cyber criminals exploiting [...]

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Privacy policies & What’s up with WhatsApp?

2021-01-20T17:42:45+00:00January 20th, 2021|GDPR, Technology News|

Do you check what privacy policies, terms and conditions you’re accepting when you go online? You may have heard that WhatsApp has postponed its new Privacy Policy change to 15th May, because of protests from users. The story is below - but this highlights an interesting question about privacy policies and other terms and conditions [...]

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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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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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GDPR – What’s next…?

2018-07-09T11:52:43+01:00June 12th, 2018|GDPR|

So May 25th has come and gone. After a last-minute surge, you have stopped receiving those privacy notices (mostly), your junk email may have even gone down in volume - although the spam you really are fed up with is probably still there. So GDPR was a success, right? Now it’s back to business as [...]

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