“Business hours” has become an almost meaningless expression. More now than ever, customers expect to shop, bank and engage with businesses around the clock. Time zones are also increasingly meaningless, with the Internet driving forward a new era of globalisation. With e-commerce, automation, social networks and self-service, consumers and clients can make purchases, get in [...]
When you live and breath IT and information security, it is easy to forget that not everyone in your organisation is on the same page. Take ransomware for example. We - IT professionals - are actively monitoring the cyber threat landscape; we take a great interest in finding out about the latest threats. In fact [...]
Talking to my clients on a daily basis, it seems that many of them still think cyber crime only ever happens to somebody else! However, the reality is that cyber crime is now more profitable than the illegal drug trade. This is partly because entry into a life of cyber crime is a lot easier and less [...]
Here is the low down on two of the most common ransomware scams that you need to know about. The pay rise/redundancy scam Cyber criminals create an email that looks similar to that of a director. For example, joe.bloggs@acme.co.uk is changed to joe.bloggs@acme.com. Sometimes the email is also 'spoofed' so that it appears in your inbox as [...]
When a major IT incident occurs, disaster recovery and business continuity plans come into their own. With a cool head CEOs, CIOs, IT directors and other key people can do a lot towards limiting damage to the business, exposure to threats, and managing the outcome of the IT incident. As part of disaster planning it [...]
Most of us in the IT industry are constantly being reminded that the 'Internet of Things' is the next big thing. It is a concept that is somewhat perplexing for us IT people and no doubt more confusing for the wider public. We explored what the term means in a recent blog article essentially it is a [...]
What kind of business protection do you have in place? Public liability insurance, business premises and assets insurance, professional indemnity insurance? No doubt your business has a host of insurance policies, but what about your information technology – what’s protecting that? When something goes wrong - whether it’s a natural disaster such as flood or [...]
Pro Drive will be joining in at the Kelly's Cross Country Challenge on Sunday 16th October, located in the beautiful grounds of Loseley Park - the home of our offices. There are plenty of options from walks, children’s races all the way through to a half marathon for the energetic amongst us. Please come along and join [...]
Not many businesses or organisations can turn the sign on the door to ‘closed’, switch off the lights and forget about work until the following morning. In today’s world most business need to be ‘always on’, even when their business premises are locked up for the night. Other businesses are operating 24/7 anyway, with global [...]
Having read with interest a BBC article about the continued growth in the use of banking apps versus the ongoing decline in the use of web-based banking facilities, I started to wonder what this trend meant in terms of personal information security as well as any known effects on business. This could become increasingly relevant if the concept of [...]
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