As featured in Business Lancashire January 2018 https://businesslancashire.co.uk/2018/01/17/everyone-needs-gdpr-ready-25th-may-2018/ At this time of year, it is customary to set a new year resolution. Normally something along the lines of “I will eat less and exercise more” in an effort to shift some of the extra pounds accumulated during the festivities. With a resolution like this, the aim is to have that … Read More
GDPR countdown: How do financial services strike the balance?
As part of HM Network’s regular series of GDPR countdown blogs, Director Martin McAleer explores the effect of the regulation updates on financial services companies. Financial Service companies will be experiencing a double bout of regulation updates with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) coming into force in January 2018 and GDPR in May 2018. This makes a heady cocktail for any … Read More
GDPR countdown: Making your staff ‘data aware’
As part of his regular blog counting down to the introduction of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Chris Hunter of HM Network focuses on what steps businesses can take to address their biggest data risk – their staff. Another few weeks have passed since our last encounter, and hopefully you’re making progress with your GDPR preparations with just 32 weeks … Read More
Device Security… are you taking it seriously?
Unless you have been living in an alternate reality recently, you will have heard about the WANNACRY malware attack. The one so big that it affected organisations around the world, including our very own NHS in the UK. It is important to note that it’s not just threats from the internet we need to be concerned about. We also need … Read More
War Games: Ferris Bueller meets Inspector Norse
If you are a similar age to me you might remember a film from 1983 called War Games starring a very young Matthew Broderick who later went on to play Ferris Bueller. The film was set in a pre “internet world” as we now know it. A young hacker unwittingly uses his computer and old school phone to hack into … Read More
Security: Are you in Control?
In 2015 the British internet and communications provider Talk Talk suffered one of the biggest security breaches on record in the UK. The financial details of thousands of customers, which included credit card details and bank account numbers, had been taken, all of which could be used to instigate further cyber-crimes. Cyber Attacks on SMEs That such a large household … Read More