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Opening your inbox first thing in the morning can feel overwhelming. Meeting invites, follow-up requests, and “quick questions” pile up before you’ve even started your day. It’s easy to lose hours reacting to emails [...]
The accountancy sector is changing rapidly with private equity backed firms growing rapidly from acquisition and creating competitive pressure on smaller practices. At the same time, recruiting and retaining staff remains a challenge and [...]
Microsoft have announced Microsoft 365 Copilot Business, launching 1st December 2025, designed for organisations with up to 300 users. At launch this contains the same feature set as the full Microsoft 365 Copilot but [...]
UK law firms face the delicate challenge of embracing AI innovation without compromising the confidentiality standards their clients rely on. AI has an extremely wide scope and is capable of an extraordinary range of [...]
Whilst the Online Safety Act might initially only seem to be aimed at social media and big tech platforms, it has important knock-on effects for UK law firms, especially when it comes to data protection, client trust, and [...]
The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) makes it safer for consumers and businesses to purchase software and hardware products with a digital component. To understand more about what this means for UK law firms, [...]
Microsoft Copilot can be a powerful tool for legal work, but it carries inherent risks for client data. Law firms can still safely use Copilot and other AI tools without risking client confidentiality, but [...]
Last week Pro Drive IT was delighted to attend the Surrey Law Society (SLS) Legal Awards 2025, held once again at G Live in Guildford. As providers of specialist IT support to the legal [...]
Our Managing Director, Bruce, recently caught up with Philippa Keith, CEO at MSP Organisation. MSP Organisation is a UK-based corporate services group that provides a wide range of specialist services to help businesses succeed. [...]
For all companies, downtime related to IT is costly and frustrating. For Accountancy and Law firms that charge by the hour it's worse as you're getting hit twice. You still have to pay your [...]
SIM swapping fraud is one of the fastest growing areas of cybercrime with reports doubling year on year, according to Action Fraud, the UK national reporting centre. What is SIM swapping? A SIM swapping [...]
By Matt Taylor, Technical Director I attended an event recently where a speaker on a panel session told the audience of small / medium business owners that they needed to engage the services of [...]
Passwords alone are no longer enough to protect accountancy firms from the increasingly prevalent threat posed by cyber criminals, with everything from phishing to brute force being resorted to by cyber attackers to access [...]
HMRC is the UK tax, payments, and customs authority. As a governmental body, HMRC holds a significant quantity of confidential personal data and financial information. Unfortunately, this makes impersonating HMRC a prime choice for [...]
Maintaining relationships with other businesses is essential in modern business. From vendors and suppliers to contractors and partners, businesses must maintain strong relationships with a wide variety of companies in order to stay efficient [...]
Fraudsters tricking others out of their money is nothing new. In fact, it’s been happening for thousands of years, with the first recorded instance of insurance fraud occurring in Greece in 300 BC. However, [...]
With an advanced toolkit of cyberattacks methods at their disposal, cyber criminals are continually finding new ways to deceive computer systems and access sensitive legal data. From targeting junior lawyers to the use of [...]
With every passing day, the techniques and technologies used by legal fraudsters are becoming increasingly sophisticated and convincing. In particular, deepfakes are becoming a significant threat, with fraudsters using these advanced technologies to commit [...]
Reflecting back on Accountex 2025, we summarise the emerging tech trends and the results from this years Pro Drive IT in Accounting Benchmarking Survey. Accountex is the premier event for accountants, finance professionals, and [...]
Our Technical Director, Matt Taylor, summarises the 2025 Accountex exhibition and latest Pro Drive IT news from it. In May Pro Drive returned to Accountex for our 2nd year exhibiting there. For those of [...]
