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  • The Business Owner’s Briefing: Reduce the Burden on Your Brain

    • 24th May 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Growth, Professional Services, Strategy, Technology
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    there are loads of tools available to you right now that can help free up your time, reduce interruptions and give you better focus. And many of them are already included with your Microsoft 365 subscription. We’ve written a business owner’s briefing to help you decide which ones could work for you.

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  • The Legal Sector: The Latest Updates in Cyber Security

    • 16th May 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Legal, Professional Services, ransomware, Security, Strategy
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    Mitigation against cyber crime, i.e. effective cyber security practices, is something that you need to be constantly vigilant about. This is especially true of certain sectors given the type and volume of personal data they manage: the legal sector is one of these. A recent review conducted by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) explored how

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  • How Your Solicitors or Law Firm Can Avoid Getting Fined £98k

    • 15th April 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Legal, Professional Services, Security
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    When people think about cyber-attacks, they tend to think about the high-profile attacks on large multinational organisations e.g., British Airways, Garmin etc. This tends to lull small businesses into a sense of false security believing that it won’t happen to them, which can be an extremely costly mistake in terms of time, money, and reputation.

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  • What Netflix and Lego did. But Kodak didn’t

    • 5th April 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Financial Services, Growth, Strategy, Technology
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    We’ve written a new guide about digital IT transformations. It’s an overview of what it actually means to digitally transform your business (with some case studies), and the basics you need to consider before you make any big decisions.

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  • The Effects of Reputational Damage for Financial Management Firms

    • 31st March 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business
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    American businessman and philanthropist, Warren Buffett, once said: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”   This quote couldn’t be more relevant today with regards to how much damage cyber-attacks can cause in as little as five minutes.  The devastating

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  • The Dangers of Not Having a Security Policy

    • 6th March 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Security
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    The Dangers of Not Having a Security Policy

    When it comes to IT security policies, you may think it’s not a necessity or would be too much hassle to apply one on your own. However, having one in place can help to protect your assets. Here’s some more information about what a security policy is and why it’s important for your workplace.  

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  • How to ensure your business’s spend on IT is an investment, and never an expense

    • 27th February 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Financial Services, Growth, Strategy, Technology
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    In the years we’ve been looking after businesses round here, we’ve noticed there are two different ways that owners and managers buy IT and technology. Some see it as an expense. Others see it as an investment

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  • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Insider Threats – All You Need to Know

    • 4th February 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Financial Services
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    Is your firm capable of defending itself against cyber-attacks? In today’s day and age, cyber-attacks are drastically increasing in number, scale, and aggression. Even a small attack can pose a huge threat and devastating results to financial services firms. Here at Compex-IT, cyber security sits at the heart of what we do, so, if your

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  • How To Keep Your Financial Management Firm’s Data Ultra-Safe During the Work From Home Revolution

    • 18th January 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Financial Services, Growth, Strategy, Technology
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    The working from home model has been readily and necessarily embraced by the financial services community and proven to have some real benefits. More efficient client engagement and people are happier and more motivated with a better work/life balance. However, this new way of working creates a new data security headache. You need to consider what would happen if a hacker was able to get into one of your team’s home network.

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  • A Basic Guide to Cyber Security for Financial and Wealth Management Firms

    • 11th January 2022
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Financial Services, Security
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    A Basic Guide to Cyber Security for Financial and Wealth Management Firms

    If there is one industry that we would expect to lead the way in cybersecurity, it’s the financial services sector. Considering the nature of the data they process and the amount of personal and business information they hold, they should be bastions of cyber-strength. So, it may come as a surprise to know that 70%

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