How the Government Will Reform Cyber Laws in the UK

2024-10-11T14:36:20+01:00October 11th, 2024|Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Law, Tips and Advice|

In the face of a startling increase in the sophistication and frequency of cyberattacks in the UK, especially against essential everyday services including water, energy, and transport, the UK government has confirmed their plans to strengthen the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulations to protect these essential and digital services from cyber threats. What [...]

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Cyber Security: Best Practices for Accounting Firms

2024-10-11T13:31:59+01:00October 11th, 2024|Accountants, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Security and Threats|

Impressive advancements in technology are made daily, including an increase in the sophistication of cyber security threats. As cyber criminals continue to become more advanced in their approach, an ever-increasing challenge is posed to accounting firms in particular. To ensure client data is secure, it is essential that accounting firms are aware of the [...]

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Cyber Security – How It’s Changed and How To Futureproof Your Business

2024-07-29T11:09:36+01:00July 29th, 2024|Accountants, AI, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Financial Services, Law, Tips and Advice|

The stability and security of IT systems may be something brought to your attention recently on a global scale; July 2024’s IT outage saw transport, healthcare, banks, and media outlets affected by an issue that originated with Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity company based in America. Whilst this particular problem wasn’t caused by a security breach, [...]

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Data security (and other) challenges you may not have considered when hiring an external contractor

2024-04-15T11:36:34+01:00April 15th, 2024|Compliance, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Productivity, Remote Working, Technology News, Tips and Advice|

Pro Drive recently undertook an exercise to look for a part time virtual assistant to help out our team with some administration work to free up more time to focus on working with our clients. However, what we expected to be a straightforward process became more challenging once we took into consideration our data [...]

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Pro Drive’s summary of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre annual review

2023-12-11T15:58:03+00:00November 29th, 2023|Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Energy, Security and Threats|

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has just released its annual review covering the period from 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2023. You can read the report yourself by visiting the NCSC website. However, if you are short on time, Pro Drive has summarized the key points that SME businesses should be aware [...]

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How to create a questionnaire to audit your suppliers’ cyber security in 15 minutes

2023-09-28T17:38:34+01:00September 28th, 2023|Accountants, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Security and Threats, Tips and Advice|

We recently wrote about the increase in ‘supply chain cyber attacks’ and how the UK and EU governments are terrified about their impact on the economy. If you are a professional services firm, you may be the target of a ‘supply chain attack’ with cyber criminals looking to use data you hold to run [...]

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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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I’ve got a security questionnaire from my client – what next?

2023-08-25T15:38:51+01:00August 25th, 2023|Accountants, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Security and Threats, Tips and Advice|

We recently wrote about the increase in ‘supply chain cyber attacks’ and how the UK and EU governments are terrified about their impact on the economy. This has been on the radar of larger businesses for some time, but now many firms in the SME sector are waking up to the potential threats from [...]

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The government is terrified about ‘supply chain’ cyber-attacks. And you should be too.

2023-08-25T15:37:34+01:00August 15th, 2023|Accountants, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Security and Threats, Tips and Advice|

The UK government has identified supply chain security as being a key risk to the UK economy. As reported by the National Cyber Security Centre, cyber-attacks launched on businesses via their suppliers have significantly increased, but very few businesses still review the cyber security of their suppliers. Why are supply chain attacks growing: Large [...]

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4 cyber security measures energy firms should implement

2023-02-07T12:26:35+00:00January 31st, 2023|Cyber Essentials, Cyber Security, Energy, Security and Threats, Tips and Advice|

Energy firms should have implemented these 4 cyber security measures – if you haven’t your business is at greater risk of a cyber attack. Companies producing, storing and transmitting energy are critical elements of the UK's national infrastructure. Unfortunately this means they have become significant targets for cyber attacks by both cyber criminal organisations [...]

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