UPDATE 9th June 2020: Our Central Admin office has now relocated to CEME Campus. See our Contact Page for Details. We’re pleased to announce that our central admin team has moved to The Hive in Southend on Sea, supporting our…
The ICO has published a blog post to ‘clarify how the fees that data controllers have to pay to the ICO are changing’; however the post provided no actual figures for the new fees. Currently organisations who process personal data ‘notify’…
As the Digital Minister, Matt Hancock announces the expected Data Protection Bill which sets out the UK’s approach to the European General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), a separate consultation is published on plans to force organisations to demonstrate they have…
Roles referencing SHEQ in the title or description have developed in recent years and are formed of 3 distinct disciplines. 1. Safety and Health An established compliance area, occupational health and safety management is governed by several pieces of UK…
Companies are often confused about what is required of them when it comes to providing human resource for Health and Safety. While small & medium sized enterprises might assign Health and Safety duties in addition to an existing job role…
All organisations generate information about their Customers, Staff, Suppliers, Finances and so on. It can become confusing when trying to decide what would be an ‘appropriate’ length of time to retain the information kept within an organisation. Of course, such…
It has been reaffirmed in the Queen’s speech that the UK Government will implement the EU General Data Protection Regulations despite pending Brexit negotiations. There is now just under a year until the May 2018 deadline for EU member states…
Introduction The General Data Protection Regulations represents the most significant Data Protection reform in nearly 20 years, and we were interested in how organisations were preparing for such a significant change. We invited our existing customers, visitors to our website…
Even the best-organised Information Security Management Systems can suffer unfortunate non-conformances when certification auditors are on site. Here are five of the trickiest ISO 27001:2013 controls – in my opinion: 1 Tailgating Many organisations share a building or main entrance…
The recent global ransomware attack which has a major impact on the NHS appears to have exploited a vulnerability in the operating system of many computers across the I.T estate, this was exacerbated by the continued widespread use of Windows…
