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SCC’s Head of Innovation, Dan Cartter, will speak at the Cyber Security: Business Insight Conference on Wednesday 17th October. The half-day conference, taking place at Bournville College, Longbridge, will host presentations and discussions that examine cyber breaches and their risk to brand reputation and customer trust. The morning will feature the presentation ‘Be on the...

It’s 4:30pm and you’re in the middle of a meeting when you’re interrupted by one of your technical architects. They want to let you know that they think there’s been a security breach so could you come down and help them check it out please? Before you can make your excuses however, they’re back in the room...

A survey of IT decision-makers has revealed that 56% believe their departments are struggling to adapt to an expanding role; this includes both adopting innovation initiatives while keeping core systems running smoothly. With digital transformation rife, IT departments around the globe are being forced to do more with the same resources. According to Insight’s annual...

SCC Chief Executive James Rigby has been shortlisted for a prestigious accolade at the Midlands Leadership Awards. The awards, created by TheBusinessDesk.com, aims to celebrate the people and organisations across the region who are role models for their teams and raise the bar for their competitors. The shortlist showcases the best qualities of modern leadership...

Most, if not all data centres, employ strong measures to help protect client information from unseemly access or use by unauthorised persons, either externally or internally. But with a world now firmly in the digital age, and a hacking community more sophisticated and complex, you may be wondering just how secure is your data centre?...

The Rigby Group, parent company of SCC, is on course to create a £1bn market value diversified business with EBITDA of £100million   07:00am, September 19th, 2018 Rigby Group (RG) plc, the parent company for a portfolio of family-owned and highly successful businesses operating across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, has published its final results...

SCC has made the shortlist for two categories at this year’s CRN Awards. The biggest channel awards event, taking place in November, will see SCC compete for the title of Reseller of the Year (£51m+) and Managed Services Provider of the Year. Winners will be announced at the prestigious ceremony on November 15 at Battersea...

As the evolution of cloud computing persists, numerous alternatives have been brought into light to contribute to this growth: grid computing, fog computing and edge computing to name a few. Having said this, talks of a multi-cloud approach has been on many business agendas and it does seem as though there are many positive things...

Europe’s largest independent Information Technology services business, SCC, is a Platinum Sponsor of the biggest ServiceNow event in the UK. The NowForum conference will take place at Royal Victoria Dock, London on 17-18 October 2018 and will feature keynote presentations and breakout sessions where delegates can hear the latest industry trends and ServiceNow innovations. SCC’s...

Legacy technology could be leaving the NHS open to cyber attacks, according to new research. The discovery was made by staff at Check Point Software, who found exploits in widely used fax machines that could allow hackers to spread malware through a malicious image file.  Check Point uncovered that malware could be coded into an...

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...

A new NHS approved £1.5m ‘Tele-Pharmacy’ has opened in Liverpool aimed at assisting people living with chronic care conditions to manage their medicinal needs through an artificial intelligent (AI) mobile app. ‘Now Patient’, developed by Now Healthcare Group, aims to support up to 15 million people living with long-term health conditions such as cancer, diabetes...