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2017-11-27 07:30:17

### Protect your Business, your Clients and your Supply Chain with the UK Government's Cyber Essentials Security Standard

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2017-11-20 15:09:02

### Are You Adequately Testing your Backup and Recovery Plans?

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2017-11-13 07:30:35

### Strategies for Surviving a Cyber Attack

Another month, another high-profile attack… or so it seems at the moment. The latest in the long line was US data firm Equifax – with a breach that affected more than 143 million American consumers. Even if you aren’t holding that much customer data, how do you recover from a breach like that?

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2017-10-30 07:30:53

### Trick or Treat? What sort of service do you get from your IT provider?

Last month we talked about our Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) feedback results – why we have it, what results we’ve been getting and what we can take from it.

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2017-10-23 11:19:35

### The Beginner's Guide to Cloud Security

As increasing numbers of businesses shift their workloads to the cloud, the security threat we face is changing. Where our data goes, the hackers follow – and now cloud attacks are on the rise.

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2017-10-16 09:35:51

### Protect Your Business from Insider Attacks

When we discuss cyber-attacks it often refers to those that come from the outside – the ones that are typically high profiles cases, such as malware, hacking, DDOS and ransomware.

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2017-10-05 10:02:23

### Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Results to date – how do you rate us?

At Grant McGregor, we have some important company values to ensure a great company culture for our people and so that they deliver a superb level of service to our customers.

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2017-10-02 13:19:10

### Two Thirds of UK Firms Hiring for GDPR - What are you doing?

GDPR comes into effect on 25th May 2018. It is set to improve the control EU citizens have over the data that organisations hold on them. As a result, it has huge implications for the way organisations manage their data – and the staff they are recruiting.

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2017-09-25 07:30:01

### Evidence Suggests Looming GDPR Is Still Being Ignored by British Businesses

Latest evidence shows that there remains a lot of confusion about GDPR and its likely impact on British Businesses, including around the role of Brexit. A new sense of urgency is required: the ICO has warned Brexit is no excuse and time is running out.

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