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As businesses look towards what their long-term future will look like post-pandemic, it’s vital to explore every way possible to add flexibility to how they operate. This applies to how people work, where they work and when they work, and increasingly, it’s employees that are calling the shots in how these new working models are...

The British Government has a target of a 68% reduction of emissions by 2030 and by 78% by 2035. Its goal is for net-zero emissions by 2050. Just as the Government has outlined its net zero ambition, corporate organisations are setting ambitious targets for reducing their carbon footprint and increasing sustainability. One of the biggest...

In the classic Only Fools and Horses scene, Trigger proudly reveals he has used the same broom for 20 years, boasting: “This old thing has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles!”. Much like Trigger’s broom, legacy IT systems, some dating back to the 1970s, are often held together with sticky plaster fixes, posing...

The ICO has started to enforce GDPR and impose fines for non-compliance and many universities are still struggling to close down all their vulnerabilities – they will need to act soon, or risk being exposed to penalties. In May 2018, the University of Greenwich was fined £120,000 by the UK Information Commissioner following a “serious”...

It can be easy to take document security for granted. Before we began to digitise our work documents, they are often physically stored in filing cabinets or archives. We now upload documents and files to the cloud without thinking twice about it. Research shows that nearly two out of every three global businesses – 65%...

Data safety is paramount, and encryption may be a significant step in order to keep you safe. So what is it and what should you encrypt? Your business doesn’t deal with highly confidential data, so you don’t need to encrypt your data, right? Wrong. Although ‘data encryption’may sound like something that only happens in institutes...

We’ve all heard the word ‘cookie’ banded around, especially in the wake of GDPR, but sadly in the IT world, this one is not made of chocolate chips. Many people are still unfamiliar with the exact meaning of the word cookie and more importantly, the cookie law. Here, SCC explains exactly how cookies work, and...

It’s been just over one month since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into practice, but already, some businesses have fallen foul of the new legislation.   Since May 25th, the watchdog that oversees the regulation has received more than 1,300 complaints and businesses have logged 60 breaches of people’s personal data with the watchdog....

An expert has warned that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may cause businesses to pay ransom demands from criminals as they could be a cheaper option when compared with GDPR fines. George Kurtz, chief executive of ­cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, said that “the price of admission of ransomware just went up” after the introduction of...

The advent of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) should bring with it some feelings of reassurance and heightened security. However, some cybercriminals are using it to their advantage in order to exploit unknowing users. According to the Independent, fraudsters have been posing as banks over email and using GDPR as an excuse to extract...

You must feel exhausted from the abundance of emails over the past few days containing the subject line ‘We’re updating our privacy policy’. But the truth is, these companies have no choice but to show 100% compliance to the new legislation as if they’re not, from today, they could face fines of up to €20...

A new survey conducted by security and systems management company Tanium indicates that 40% of businesses feel more exposed to cyber attacks than ever before – and there is good reason for it. The truth is it’s easier than ever for someone to become a hacker and with GDPR just around the corner, it is vital...