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COVID-19 the formal name for the flu-like disease that originated from the Wuhan area of China, and to date this has affected north of 80,000 people and killed almost 3,000 globally! The virus continues to spread around the world with fears rising it’s causing some major disruptions in all areas of industry; supply chain is going to be affected as the majority of parts come from the China regions. Also, people are cutting back their travel either personal holiday travel or business travels, the amount of people out there that have received the corporate email saying don’t travel due to COVID-19. H1N1 Was The LastRead More →

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Do you use GitHub? How do you ensure if GitHub was down for a reason that your developers could still gain access to their code but also how many people actually run their code from GitHub directly into their environment? Why do you need to backup GitHub? As mentioned above if something was to happen to access to GitHub and that doesn’t just mean a site failure from that end it could also mean internet connectivity or issues within your environment which stops the ability to gain access to GitHub. What if one of your developers or GitHub administrators brings down an important repository orRead More →

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One of the main principles of GDPR is the way in which personal data is processed, this means we must consider things like risk analysis, organisational policies, physical and technical measures. Later in the post I am going to touch on pseudonymisation and encryption and how these can be used to assist the measures to becoming compliant. The measures must ensure “confidentiality, integrity and availability” of systems, services and personal data. My favourite is there must be the ability to restore access and availability to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or a technical incident. Does this mean theRead More →

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I expect everyone has been experiencing the annoying calls and emails asking if you have been involved in an accident or you are entitled to something because of something even though neither has taken place. Well by all means this has not been done by breaking any laws! But these companies have obtained your information through some ways or means. With GDPR this should tighten this action from happening. One of the key points moving forward or after the 25th May 2018, consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous. It cannot be buried in lengthy terms and conditions. This will make it muchRead More →

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Hi Everyone, it’s that week we have been speaking about for the last year or so. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect this Friday (25th May) Hopefully this is not new news to anyone that must adhere to this new regulation, if it is then there are heaps of content out there and I summarised the Veeam efforts here in another blog post – Veeam & GDPR – The Journey to being GDPR Compliant Last week, Veeam had their annual conference VeeamON in Chicago, at the conference I was fortunate enough to team up with some fellow Veeamers to talk about theRead More →

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In this episode I hosted my good friend Paul Stringfellow. (Twitter @TechStringy) a Technical Director of a long established UK based  IT consultancy,  Gardner Systems plc. Michael and Paul talk about the topical threat of Ransomware and the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) You can find the recording here. We covered a very topical subject here in the UK regarding GDPR and how come next summer every business is going to have to adhere to these new regulations or face some heavy fines. First of all here is the opening introduction paragraph from the Information Commisioners Office (ICO) website. “This overview highlights the keyRead More →

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  What is Ransomware? What is ransomware? – A type of malicious software (Malware) which restricts access to a computer and/or the files on a computer until a ransom amount is paid. It’s something that is downloaded via email or file from the internet or passed between users much the same as a virus, this can be linked to a virus, malware, Trojan horse these are the same thing but a more evolved version. What is it going to do to a single computer or network? – it’s going enforce restrictions through encryption and prohibit access to certain areas of a machine or an environmentRead More →