In 2010 there was a volcanic eruption in Iceland. It was majorly disruptive, but for only part of society and business. This disruption was bad, but it was a trial run, for the times we now find ourselves in. International business travel, the transport of goods and hospitality were affected for some months. Airlines […]
Fraudsters fake the voice of a CEO to trick a manager in to transferring hundreds of thousands of pounds! Do you have a business culture that ensures staff would feel confident to challenge an order from the CEO? Do you have the checks and balances in place to deal identify and prevent this happening in […]
I suspect we’ve all experienced the feelings of despondency when we have been sitting in a training course that has switched us “off”? A poor trainer, poor material are typically the major causes but a poor training environment and contributes too. How interested we are in the topic is also a significant contributory factor in […]
Transformation takes many forms and is generally a misunderstood term. For me transformation is simply ‘changing’ your business from one thing to another. This could be from an underperforming business to profitable business, or much more fundamentally, changing your business from one type to another. Transformation is such a big topic I find it useful […]
Where we know it or not, but some of our personal data has already been taken from us and is available to those who will mis-use it. Last year a client paid an invoice for £11,500 and he soon realised that 2 important details were wrong – the bank sort code and account number! This […]
Its time to fight for your business! Fight for your freedom from the endless drudgery of 24/7 entrepreneurship. Time to fight for equality of resources with the biggest organisations on the planet. It’s time to join the digital revolution! And super charge what you and your business can do. I get really frustrated sometimes. Especially when […]
Industry has been waiting to see if GDPR had gone the way of other legislation/regulation – that is, it came in to force, but it was not constantly and persistently enforced so too many organisations didn’t pro-actively develop the processes and procedures they should have. Case in point, is the Data Protection Act of 1998. […]
Here at Cybata we are big fans of the Data IQ blog and here is a great aggregation post from them that highlights some of the great articles they have run this year. We’ll give you a quick insight and some detail on each, but its well worth popping over for a look yourself. A […]
Why should you consider employing a Virtual Data Protection Officer? There’s a pretty strong case… GDPR and data protection in general are complicated beasts. The regulations are in the form of a framework meaning that there has already been much debate as to what section refers to what. And worse, there are conflicting ideas about […]
