Category: Data Protection
IT News and updates from the Your IT team
Your No. 1 New Years Resolution: Backup; Backup; Backup!
New Year is a time where many of us set ourselves new goals and challenges. It might be to clear out the garage or loft. Maybe to shop around for a cheaper energy deal. Or to finally join the gym and drop a few pounds. We set these goals to try and improve our productivity,… Read full article
Test Your Data Backups
Most businesses are aware of the need for data backup. Without it they risk losing important files in the event of a hard drive failure or cyberattack. Yet having a backup in place isn’t enough: it’s important also to test your data backups. You must ensure that you are able to restore that essential data… Read full article
2019 Internet Security Threat Report
Data for the report comes from Symantecs Global Intelligence Network, which records events from 123 million attack sensors worldwide. Data for the report comes from more than 157 countries worldwide. The report runs to 61 pages. To save you reading through everything we’ve summarised it, picking out the most relevant and important information. Formjacking Formjacking… Read full article
What are Backup, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity?
Nobody can guarantee that a businesses IT is 100% safe and secure. Things go wrong. This might be a minor issue such as a deleted file, or a major problem such as a server failure or cyber-attack. Your data is precious, and, in the event of an issue, you’ll want to be able to get… Read full article
GDPR – The Story So Far
GDPR went live on the 25th May 2018. As most (sensible) people predicted the world didn’t end, nobody was fined £20m odd and businesses did not drown under the weight of people unsubscribing to their emails. So, what happened? You may have noticed that you became extremely popular in the lead up to the 25th… Read full article
Is GDPR the end of Bring Your Own Device?
Bring Your Own Device Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is now an accepted part of our business lives. There are a number of advantages to be gleaned in allowing BYOD but the major disadvantages revolve around security. With the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), data security is more sharply in view than ever. But… Read full article
How Your IT can help with GDPR
We’ve spent the past few months trying to explain that GDPR is not an IT issue. But we still get emails from customers that say things like “Can you explain how you will make us GDPR compliant please?” (not a direct quote but pretty close!). Firstly, to reiterate GDPR is NOT an IT issue, it’s… Read full article
Getting Started With GDPR
Over the past 12 months we’ve offered plenty of opinion about the new General Data Protection Regulations. Whilst there is still plenty of uncertainty around the GDPR one thing is without any doubt. You need to ACT! Doing nothing is not an option but we know that often, when it comes to something new, getting started… Read full article
Oh No, it’s another GDPR Blog.
The new General Data Protection Regulations come into force on the 25th May 2018. You cannot fail to have heard off and/or read about the ‘biggest change to data protection in the past 20 years™’ so what we don’t want to do is rehash the same old information. If you’ve not heard of it before… Read full article
An overview of the new General Data Protection Regulations
The new General Data Protection Regulation comes into force in May 2018. This is a complex and lengthy piece of legislation that will apply to any business that currently has to comply with the Data Protection Act in the UK. We’re leaving the EU so we don’t have to worry about this…… Wrong! The GDPR… Read full article
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