Many people have contacted us about the ‘General Data Protection Regulation’ and its implementation. What is GDPR? The GDPR is an EU Regulation which is being brought into effect across Europe by May 2018. By the very nature of being…
ISO 27001 Certification has many benefits, time with external auditors can be well spent testing the effectiveness of your Information Security Management System. However, the prospect of increasing the length of an external audit is not likely to be met…
Introduction Introducing any standard to any organisation is always a challenging task. Introducing an Information Security standard to a start-up can be even more tricky. Small size companies, especially start-ups are often at the stage where procedures not robust, well…
It has long been an established convention that an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is required to protect servers and networking equipment in the event of power outages. IT Managers spent their time monitoring the battery health and load to ensure…
Over the first weekend of April 2016 news began to emerge of another data leak. However this one seemed different, the media were already reporting it as the biggest data leak in history and there appeared to be implications for…
Following the break down of the Safe Harbour Agreement last October (2015), it looked difficult for EU and US authorities to agree a new deal to ensure adequate safe guards for personal data transferred and processed in the US. Despite…
Risk Management firm Assent have announced the public launch of Risk Assist, a service desk that provides support to companies on a variety of issues including information security, health & safety, the environment and quality management. Assent Director Robert Clements…
What is Remote Gambling?The Gambling Act 2005 defines remote gambling as gambling in which person(s) participate by the use of remote communication including the internet, telephone, television, radio and any other kind of electronic or other technology for facilitating communication.…
That Our Software Product & Infrastructure is secure? Sometimes software companies talk about ISO 27001 like a badge that can applied to a product, however the standard defines an Information Security Management System and therefore does not contain specifications for…
