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  • The 5 Step Plan to Prepare and Protect Your Financial Planning and Wealth Management Firm From Cyber Crime

    • 4th May 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Financial Services, Growth, Professional Services, ransomware, Security, Strategy, Technology
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    You’re regulated by the FCA. The nature of your business means that you’ll retain very sensitive client data. Therefore, the onus falls on you not to just protect your own critical data, but the financial and personal records of your customers, too

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  • WATCH how easy it is to give away your login details

    • 28th April 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Financial Services, Security
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    You must have heard of phishing scams. Even if you’re not sure exactly what they are, you’ll know they’re to be avoided. Simply put, a phishing scam is an email sent under the pretence of being from someone else. Like your email, bank, or Amazon, or another place online where you have an account. They

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  • WATCH why it’s so important to update your software

    • 21st April 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Financial Services, Security
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    We know computers are a pain, but they’re also very important. 10 minutes updating a device now could save you days or weeks of lost time should the worst happen. It’s frightening to think that a whopping 60% of data breaches could have been avoided if someone had taken the time to run the update

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  • WATCH as a computer is infected with ransomware

    • 14th April 2021
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Financial Services, ransomware, Security
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    Have you heard of ransomware? It’s where all of your business’s data is encrypted and held to ransom by criminals. They demand a huge fee to release it. In fact, I’ve just been reading that the average ransom fee demanded has shot up in the last year. A threat intelligence team in the USA revealed

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  • Why Working with a Smaller IT Provider/Support Company is Better for Business

    • 27th October 2020
    • Posted by: Mark Dodds
    • Category: Business, Financial Services, Professional Services
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    Remember the last time you had to call a large company for a support query? They probably assigned you a ticket, promised a resolution, and left you to wait, leaving you feeling about as human as the ticket number itself. It may even have been your IT support provider. The larger a company gets, the

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