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How can an FCA regulated investment firm tell if its IT provider is doing a good job?

For an FCA regulated investment firm, judging the performance of an IT provider can be surprisingly difficult. If employees can…

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What does a best practice IT environment for an FCA regulated investment firm look like?

For an investment firm, IT problems are rarely just IT problems. An outage can prevent people from serving clients. A…

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Passkeys: the next step beyond passwords. For firms who already take security seriously

If your firm already uses multi-factor authentication (MFA) and a managed password approach, you’re ahead of many organisations. However cyber…

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How to use Microsoft 365 to automate your data classification policies

For financial and professional services firms, data classification is no longer optional. With the growth of artificial intelligence in everyday…

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How to create a data classification framework

For professional and financial services firms, information is one of the most valuable and sensitive business assets. However their data…

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Why classifying data matters more than ever in the age of AI

We recently wrote about why having a framework for classifying your data is so important in the digital age and…

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Essentials controls that Financial Services firms should implement when using AI

Across the financial services sector, there’s enormous excitement about the promise of generative AI including tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot.  …

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How your IT team can be tricked into letting cyber criminals access to your IT systems

In recent months, cyber-attacks on high profile retail businesses including Marks & Spencer (M&S) and the Co-op have made the…

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