When I am first introduced to a potential software project the over-riding thought is almost always, “how don’t you already have this?”. Its shocking to me how many companies still use office-type applications to run major parts of their business. I have had cases where personal data, stock control and financial data are stored on […]

In a recent survey carried out to determine the main obstacles businesses and organisations face when considering migrating to the cloud – this is the most common response by far! * It seems the majority of organsations are aware of the benefits of cloud and particularly AWS as a cloud provider but most are concerned […]

It emerged on Wednesday of last week that UK Telecoms company TalkTalk, had been hacked and this latest data breach could potentially expose both personal and bank details of its 4 million customer base. The company has since went on the offensive, defending its data security and suggesting that it would rank better than its […]

Many organisations that collect data online tend to be a quite lax when it comes to data protection, particularly small businesses (SME’s) and voluntary organisations. Up until now there was a very simple reason for this – there was never any major risk in not engaging with regulation as it was quite vague and generally unenforceable […]