Privacy Polices – Common Mistakes

Oct 13, 2022 | Privacy Policies

I spend a lot of time looking at Privacy Policies, it’s one of the first pages I go to when I land on a website.  Now, before you judge me, it’s a great way for me to see if someone is my ideal client or not ! I can tell by skim reading a few paragraphs of their...

What is a Personal Data Inventory and why do you need one?

Oct 12, 2022 | GDPR

What is a Personal Data Inventory?   A personal data inventory is simply a record of all the personal data that you collect in your business. It’s often called a Personal data mapping exercise and works best using a spreadsheet or table. It’s like a stock...

Focus on fraud – What is CEO fraud and how to prevent it?

Apr 28, 2019 | Fraud

CEO fraud is so called because fraudsters impersonate the Chief Executive Officer, Finance Director or similar senior manager of an organisation, requesting a payment or bank transfer to be made, either by telephone or email.    The request is often based on urgency...

Human error and data incidents

Mar 9, 2019 | Data Security, GDPR

It’s only to be expected that there has been a significant increase in the number of data security incidents reported by The Information Commissioner’s Office in their recent quarterly stats.    The publicity around GDPR which came into force in May 2018...