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Email policies may well be something that your company overlooks in terms of creating rules for employees. However, you might be surprised to know the importance of email policies, especially written policies, and how they can protect you in terms of liability and...

Mobile devices are becoming more and more popular recently, and they make working life a lot more straightforward. However, many mobile device users are blissfully unaware of the potential dangers surrounding them. Of course, a lot of the time this lack of knowledge...

If you have to buy laptops for a number of your employees you may be tempted by the cheaper models. However, these cheaper laptops may come with risks that could make the cost saving a false economy. This is due to a flaw in the bundled software that comes with some...

We are constantly warned about how important it is to protect our data and prevent hackers from accessing it. However, nowadays we are also told to encrypt so much that it might make you question whether you need to encrypt absolutely everything that you store, send...

You might think that cyber insurance is just another way for companies to make money out of businesses. However, according to one of the UK’s leading lawyers, cyber security could play a vital role in data protection policies, even though only one third of companies...

Unfortunately, all hard drives have a shelf life, all of them will die eventually. Even if it isn’t a catastrophic failure that is the issue, a security breach may also lead to data loss. This means that it is vitally important for you to ensure that your data, both...

We are all aware, or so we presume, of the importance of having adequate antivirus (AV) software on our computers and laptops. AV software detects, prevents and disarms any malware, or viruses, that may be on your device and while it won’t necessarily solve all...

For most people, free Wi-Fi whilst out in public would pose very few if any possible problems at all. In fact, for the majority, it’s great: you can check your emails, check your social networking sites and even get some last minute work done in shopping centres,...

New regulations that are proposed across the 28 EU countries mean that organisations must be extra vigilant when it comes to data security. The concerning thing is that many companies are not even aware that they are losing data, let alone what type of data it is that...

It is expected that there will be issues connected with data security in any type of system that stores data online. However, throughout each year, there are more and more data security issues that we are warned of and it can be difficult to realise which pose a...