Author: Mike Puglia

With data collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicating that almost 50 per cent of Great Britain’s workforce was working from home in mid-April, and with many organisations looking to consider permanent remote working models as the lockdown eases, the need to effectively manage a secure and compliant remote workforce is increasingly vital.  Yet, that mass migration to working from home has inevitably made achieving these goals more challenging. Of the 2,000 home-working British people surveyed in recent research by IT support company, ILUX, for example, one in ten believed that their expected working practices are not GDPR compliant.  But the issue is not…

As the dust begins to settle on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) following it coming into force last month, thoughts begin to turn to the potential ramifications of a breach in these GDPR compliant times. Not least of which the heavy fines which are a staggering €20m or 4% of annual turnover – whichever is greater. But companies doing business in the E.U. should also be concerned with the fact that they must notify customers of a data breach as soon as it happens, which could lead to untold reputational damage. In today’s climate a data breach can be…