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The Human Element You’ve just invested in some new infrastructure, and security features to lock down your firms data. Your IT guy has assured you that your security’s covered. But there’s one risk, the largest risk to any business, which has been unaddressed. The human risk. Human error Human error, is an unbelievably broad term […]

Clear Your Downloads On the majority of accounting firms computers there is a location hiding in plain sight, which contains an abundance of sensitive client information. Most firms don’t even realise that there is data stored here. But on every computer there is a Downloads folder, and on most peoples it balloons unmonitored to become […]

Saving Passwords in Browsers We’ve all been there. You sign up for ANOTHER website and have to create ANOTHER password… Luckily (or not as is the case) your browser comes to the rescue and says ‘Would you like me to save your password?’ You click save, and think that’s the end of it. You don’t […]

The Hackers Treasure Trove Email inboxes, and the treasure trove of information they contain, are now the number one risk for accounting firms. Any email that can be accessed externally by a phone or remote device is susceptible to hacking, and even emails still on a server can be at risk. One of the reasons […]

Why your firm needs to introduce passphrases The common thinking with passwords has generally been; the more symbols and alphanumerics, the more secure it is. We are now finding that this is irrelevant as we’re seeing passwords containing different symbols and alphanumerics being breached more and more frequently. The reason why is that characters don’t […]

This article is a follow up to the two factor – what and why article which overviewed what two factor is and why it’s coming to the accounting industry so rapidly. It is a quick two-minute non-tech plain-speak on how firms will approach two-factor in 2019 without impacting productivity. What is identity? “Identity” is the […]