07 February 2019
Our financial services survey on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance found that financial services firms aren’t fully confident in their DPO or resource.
Read more07 February 2019
To gain insight into how the financial services sector is managing ongoing GDPR compliance the financial services team at RSM recently conducted a survey in the sector to take the pulse in relation to level of confidence in key areas. Over the coming weeks we will be sharing insights from our GDPR experts on the key findings.
16 July 2018
The GDPR enforcement deadline of May 2018 has been and gone – but that’ doesn’t mean that it’s done and dusted, that was simply the tip of the iceberg for data privacy. Organisations who become complacent about maintaining GDPR compliance are very much in danger of falling foul of it.
20 April 2018
The report issued this week by the Public Accounts Committee on the Wannacry cyber-attack which affected the NHS last year highlights the scale of the challenge needed to improve cyber security across the NHS. According to the report, the attack could have had an even more serious impact on the NHS if it had not happened in the summer, or on a Friday, or had the kill switch not been discovered so soon by a cyber security researcher.
21 February 2018
New figures from the FCA show that reported data hacking attacks against financial services companies have quadrupled in the last year.
29 January 2018
The number of cyber-attacks against financial services companies reported to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has risen by more than 80 per cent in the last year.
24 January 2018
A new survey published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has revealed a worryingly low level of awareness of new data protection rules which come into force this May.
04 September 2017
The introduction of a beneficial employee benefits package in addition to standard salary is one of the most effective recruitment and retention tactics. What employee benefits does your academy offer?
08 August 2017
We are seeing open source software becoming more common in day-to-day business. Most applications you use have implemented open-source code to some extent so that it more effectively suits an organisation’s IT operating environment.
20 July 2017
Elizabeth Denham has flagged the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation as a significant future challenge for her office in the Information Commissioner’s Office annual report.
