May 24, 2021
In our March newsletter we discussed the Role of Policies and Procedures in the IT environment and stepped through the importance of clearly defining terms such as policy, procedure, standard etc. A common challenge, often encountered by organisations when drafting and reviewing a policy, is the use of wording that clearly reflects the policy’s intent and follows best practice. Words […]
February 02, 2021
Significant changes in working arrangements have occurred for many people during 2020, and as 2021 commences, further changes are very likely. In the last 10 months the COVID-19 pandemic drove an increased reliance on technology by organisations in order to ensure employees and customers could function through a very disruptive period. When announcing their most recent quarterly financial results Microsoft […]
September 09, 2020
The accelerated adoption of Working from Home practices in 2020 has seen numerous IT teams and service providers rise fantastically to the challenge of making systems and data more available to higher numbers of remote users. For many organisations the Remote Access Policy is now an increasingly important element of their overall security posture. To cater for today’s rapidly changing […]
June 11, 2020
Post-lockdown, many organisations will reopen offices with significantly reduced occupancy. According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is moving to permanently reduced occupancy and a formal remote working policy for new hires. Eventually about half of its 50,000 workforce will work remotely within 5 to 10 years. When we list some of the benefits of remote working, the drivers and rationale for […]
May 07, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic means remote working has become prevalent and will probably continue long after the crisis has eased. The increased cybersecurity threat inherent in remote working represents an opportunity to transform your workforce into a very powerful resource. In the fight to maintain robust cybersecurity, personnel can be galvanised into a team with a heightened awareness of potential threats and a means to note and report them.
March 30, 2020
As a CIO, IT Manager or Senior Executive you may experience a sense of mild panic at the prospect of high numbers of staff suddenly vacating the office to work remotely. That’s unsurprising but the world as we know it is changing due to COVID-19. The First Step is… The solution is preparedness. It’s never too late to formalise arrangements […]
October 30, 2019
A recent assignment we undertook for an unnamed organisation (we’ll call them Demonstration City Council (DCC) for the purposes of this article) required us to review and conduct a gap analysis of their existing IT policy material. In doing the analysis the most obvious gaps we identified were that DCC did not have any IT policies written for heads of department, team […]
September 10, 2019
We are pleased to announce the release of IT Policy System Version 19 which will ship as of November 1st to UK customers on support and maintenance contracts. New additions and enhancements being delivered in Version 19 are: Mapping of policy content to align with the Cyber Essential Plus requirements. A new introductory video is incorporated in the IT Policy System which […]
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