Is your return to work cyber safe too?
As UK business begins to return to a semblance of normality, we are seeing many of our law firm customers un-furloughing more of their staff in response to an uptick... Read More
Mark Lee / 28 July 2020
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When a datacentre isn’t just a datacentre
By Andy Lewis If you were to craft a wish-list of deliverables a Cloud platform might be able to deliver, it would look like this… As the first few law... Read More
Andy Lewis / 22 July 2020
10 Principles for Modernising Your Company's Technology
More businesses are understanding the need to modernise their technology and undertake a digital transformation. The legacy systems found in businesses today may have served a function a few years... Read More
Lee Savery / 01 May 2020
Why Managed Security is Cost Effective
The cyber threat to businesses remains ever-present, leading to organisations investing more in cyber security than ever before. According to Statista, large UK businesses spent an average of £277,000... Read More
Lee Savery / 17 April 2020
The F Word
By Mark Lee In addition to impacting all of our lives in previously unimaginable ways, the Coronavirus is bringing new buzzwords such as social distancing, self-isolating and now furloughing into... Read More
Mark Lee / 07 April 2020
How Cloud Computing is Helping Businesses Through Coronavirus
The Coronavirus pandemic has changed how everyone is living their daily lives, as countries have placed restrictions on people’s movements to fight the virus. The biggest impact has been... Read More
Charlotte Tobulevicius / 03 April 2020
The War on Coronavirus: What Part Can Businesses Play?
Like me, you probably first heard about Coronavirus as a minor news item in a faraway place in early January. At the time I didn’t give it a great... Read More
Mark Lee / 25 March 2020
Microsoft Teams vs Slack
Slack and Microsoft Teams are the leading collaboration applications for businesses today. Both have been designed to bring teams together - both in-house and remote workers - to boost productivity... Read More
Charlotte Tobulevicius / 28 February 2020
Embracing Collaboration with Microsoft Teams
You might think that collaboration in the modern workplace is surplus to requirement with the rise of remote working, but embracing collaboration and finding people who can work with others... Read More
Charlotte Tobulevicius / 14 February 2020
Biggest Cyber Security Threats to the Recruitment Sector
A 'Global Recruitment Insights & Data' study carried out by Bullhorn last year revealed that 32% of respondents identified cyber security and data protection regulations as a top operational challenge... Read More
Gilbert Kenny / 06 February 2020
Legal Tech Implementation Projects: They're a Cultural Thing
One of the aspects of the legal industry that has always intrigued me is how some law firms can enjoy huge success with an implementation of legal technology process and... Read More
Charles Christian / 24 January 2020
Data Thieves Raise the Stakes for Ransomware Defence in 2020
Whilst most of us were relaxing over the extended Christmas break, one group was hard at work. Ransomware attackers have caused chaos and disruption across the globe over recent years,... Read More
Stephen Peak / 13 January 2020
Technology and Generation Z
Thinking back to 10 years ago, could you have predicted how your business would evolve over the next decade? If I think back to 10 years ago, I was 11... Read More
Connor Silman / 12 December 2019
Cyber Security Skills Gap: What Can you do to Maximise your Resources?
The IT security sector is in crisis. The shortage of skilled professionals has become a crisis, as organisations across the globe struggle to find the people they need to keep... Read More
Stephen Peak / 13 November 2019
Flexible, Agile or Remote Working: Defining the Working Styles in a Modern Workplace
Remote working, working from home, agile working, flexible working… these are the broad range of terms and buzz words we’ve all come to hear a lot about over the... Read More
Charlotte Tobulevicius / 01 November 2019
Cloud vs SaaS
In computing, you’ll often hear two terms: Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS). As a business, you’ll have to decide what system to use to run your... Read More
Lee Savery / 21 October 2019
Remote Working: Taking Security to the Next Level
Over the past few years, remote and flexible working have come in from the fringes of business thinking to be regarded as mainstream workplace activities. In the UK and across... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 03 October 2019
MarTech: Making it Work for Your Business
There is an American marketing commentator and cartoonist called Tom Fishburne who published a piece on “marketing effectiveness” this summer. In the accompanying cartoon, one character standing by the inevitable... Read More
Charles Christian / 26 September 2019
Reasons Why Financial Institutions Should Implement Hosted Desktops
As technology evolves and software improves, financial institutions (FIs) are expected to embrace the disruption technology brings. As more industries move their day-to-day workflow onto cloud software, hosted desktops and... Read More
Lee Savery / 28 August 2019
A New Era of Regulatory Mega Fines: How SMEs Should Respond
The last couple of weeks have seen a flurry of regulatory activity in the data protection space, spelling an end to the GDPR honeymoon period and trouble for some big-name... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 25 July 2019
Cyber Security: What's it got to do with Finance?
It’s a common misconception that cyber security should be left to the technical teams within an organisation, when in fact it is everyone’s responsibility to be vigilant. After... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 23 July 2019
Remote Working is Not a Dirty Word
The legal sector is going through a fundamental disruption in terms of technology, with widespread adoption of law tech and increasing automation of legal services and processes. However, for those... Read More
Charlotte Tobulevicius / 04 July 2019
How to use Business Intelligence
The continued adoption of innovative lawtech and the increasing automation of legal services and processes will have a profound effect on the UK legal sector, according to a recent report... Read More
Andy Lewis / 17 June 2019
Legacy Applications: Are they Slowing Down your Business?
According to a recent study from The Law Society on the adoption of “lawtech” in the legal sector, the pace of technological innovation in the sector has been slower when... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 04 June 2019
GDPR One Year On: What have we learned?
Almost a year has gone by since the biggest change to Europe’s privacy laws in a generation came into force. GDPR turns one in May, and according to the... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 05 April 2019
How Flexible Working And Technology Is Empowering Women In Law
Introduction In this report, we focus on how women in one of the most competitive and male-dominated industries; law, are progressing in their careers and using technology to support them... Read More
Andy Lewis / 07 March 2019
Why Are Law Firms Ignoring AI?
AI has been a buzzword for a couple of years now, however the benefits of using this technology has historically been something for firms to “think about in the future”... Read More
Andy Lewis / 01 March 2019
Digital Threats In 2019
As we move through Q1 of the new year, what’s most noticeable in cybersecurity terms is the sameness of it all. Data breaches, ransomware outages, apocryphal warnings from leading... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 25 February 2019
In the Absence of Government Leadership, CNI Firms Can Still Improve Security
A new parliamentary report has some harsh words on the government’s handling of cybersecurity in critical national infrastructure (CNI). The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy says that... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 26 November 2018
Guest Blog: Doing Nothing is No Longer an Option For Law Firms
This week, we have another guest blog from Bill Kirby, Consultant at Professional Choice Consultancy. This time Bill talks about the uncertainty felt in the legal sector and beyond and... Read More
Bill Kirby / 05 November 2018
Magecart: Time to Focus on Web Security to Mitigate Digital Skimming Risk
When we talk about data breaches usually it involves stories of customer databases being compromised. But there’s another threat which could be just as damaging. Whilst not exactly new,... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 01 October 2018
Why Is Your Business Struggling To Retain Top Talent?
Many businesses have employees that live cutting edge home lives using their tablet and smartphone to shop, socialise and manage their personal finances. But then work Monday to Friday for... Read More
Mark Flynn / 25 September 2018
Artificial Intelligence In Action
Every decade or so, a new, game-changing technology platform changes the way the world works. From floppy disks to the cloud, fax machine to the iPhone, the technological landscape continuously... Read More
Mark Flynn / 24 September 2018
AI - The Next Big Thing and The Practical Ways It Could Be Applied In Your Business
AI is going to be the next big thing for just about everything in industry. This is backed up by the likes of the Bank of England stating the UK's... Read More
Mark Flynn / 10 September 2018
How To Protect Your Business From Hackers
It doesn't matter how much you spend on great cybersecurity technology, the people within your business are typically the weakest link when it comes to security. It might be an... Read More
Mark Flynn / 15 August 2018
How Will We Use Artificial Intelligence In The Future?
It has once again been a big month for AI with some really interesting things going on that are vitally important to how we will use AI in future. The... Read More
Mark Flynn / 07 August 2018
BYOD – The Six-day Monday to Friday Week?
The US research and consultancy firm, Global Market Insights estimates that the bring your own device (BYOD) market will be worth $367 billion by 2022. That’s up from $94... Read More
Howard Smith / 06 August 2018
The Fight Against Cybercrime
In recent months I’ve highlighted how big business and inter-government agencies need to work smarter and collaborate better if they are to successfully fight cybercrime. Therefore, it was good... Read More
Mark Flynn / 31 July 2018
What Does the Cybersecurity Skills Gap Mean for the Industry?
The cybersecurity skills gap has been one of the major issues in the industry for the past few years. The shortage has a big impact on how the industry behaves... Read More
Mark Flynn / 26 July 2018
5 AI Technology Terms You Really Need to Know
Artificial intelligence is the buzz word in the industry at the moment. However, there is a great deal of confusion due to the wide variety of terms being bandied around... Read More
Mark Flynn / 17 July 2018
Cybercrime: An International Threat!
This last week has been dominated by news of a big shift in cybercrime, the move away from a single person or small group in one location to cybercriminals forming... Read More
Mark Flynn / 10 July 2018
Artificial Intelligence Can Now Argue Back! But Is This A Good Thing?
This week’s news has once again been dominated by the subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The most exciting piece of AI news has come out of IBM, this week... Read More
Mark Flynn / 02 July 2018
Cost-Cutting & Agile IT, What's It All About?
The term Agile IT isn’t just another meaningless buzzword, it’s a whole new way of working. Focused on streamlining and cost-cutting, Agile IT is changing the workplace as... Read More
Mark Flynn / 11 June 2018
Three Tech Topics That Could Affect Your Business Today
Looking back over the last month, there are three major topics that jump out at me in the world of tech news and I have a sneaking suspicion they’ll... Read More
Mark Flynn / 07 June 2018
One Year on from WannaCry: Have Lessons Been Learned?
A little over a year ago hundreds of thousands of computers around the world were hit by a mysterious malware outbreak. For many, it was their first experience of ransomware... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 04 June 2018
How Machine Learning Is Benefitting Businesses Everywhere
Machine learning and AI is transforming cyber defence strategies & customer management worldwide. Find out how it’s revolutionising the way we live and work. Imagine living in a world... Read More
Hollie Coote / 04 June 2018
The Legal Battle of the Year: Mobility Vs Security
The start of a new year is always an interesting time in the legal market. Family lawyers are often run off their feet with the spike in divorce applications and... Read More
Andy Lewis / 26 February 2018
Supercharge your supplier relationship
When you start work with a new managed IT service provider (or any other outsource supplier for that matter), you’re at the beginning of what should be a long,... Read More
Howard Smith / 12 February 2018
Closing the Gender Gap in the STEM Industry
Over the last decade, it has been reported that the number of women working within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics industry is largely absent, with the level of female... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 15 August 2017
Basic security hygiene tips that can protect your identity in the Cloud
In a world where we are sharing more and more of our data, documents and personal lives online, ensuring that our identities are protected is crucial. A recent blog by... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 14 August 2017
How Does Nasstar Protect Your Services?
Cyber security is not something you can do once and forget about - there’s no shortage of threats out there which can affect all parts of your IT infrastructure:... Read More
Stephen Peak / 02 August 2017
GDPR - The Cost Effective Response
You will have seen endless streams of advice on the coming of GDPR, warning of the huge fines that will be forthcoming if you don’t comply. Many of these... Read More
Guy Deterding / 26 July 2017
Parliament Cyber Attacks Prove Passwords are No Longer Fit for Purpose
In cybersecurity, as with life in general, the temptation to stick with the status quo frequently triumphs over attempts to move on, upgrade and advance. Each time we witness a... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 07 July 2017
An Introduction To The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The thing that jumps out when anyone mentions the General Data Protection Regulation is that monstrous twenty million euro fine (or 4% of your global turnover) if you get caught... Read More
Guise Bule / 14 March 2017
Private Equity And The Tech Romance
There is no denying the tech space is the most revolutionary sector in 21st century business and one which is attracting increased investor interest. For a long time private equity... Read More
Tanzeel Akhtar / 02 March 2017
Brexit, Technology & The Commercial Property Market
Since the vote to Brexit in June last year commercial property has taken a battering but despite the slowdown the sector is being revolutionised with the emergence and adoption of... Read More
Tanzeel Akhtar / 03 February 2017
Thought Leader Series : The Art Of IT Outsourcing
Welcome to The Art Of IT Outsourcing, part of the Nasstar Thought Leader series of articles and webinars, joining us for this edition is Nasstar CEO Nigel Redwood in interview... Read More
Nasstar Marketing / 01 February 2017
The Flatter Organisational Structure Of The Future
We live in an in-between period where old orthodoxies are dying, new ones have yet to be born, and very few things seem to make sense. ( Ziauddin Sardar) We may... Read More
Doug Belshaw / 23 January 2017
PropTech: When Technology Crashes Into The Property Industry
What do you get when you mix the hottest money making sector in the known universe with a dash of geek? Hint: it's got nothing to do with Hollywood sitcoms.... Read More
Nigel Powell / 15 November 2016
Security Fatigue? Maybe It’s Time to Physically Isolate
New research from US standards body NIST suggests that a weariness and reluctance to deal with computer security is exposing users and the companies they work for to unnecessary risk.... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 24 October 2016
IoT Series: Risks In The Connected Workplace
In the near future, the connected workplace will help companies and their employees thrive by tracking workplace activity, space and equipment utilisation, and individuals’ work habits. Data from connected sensors... Read More
Jonathan Camhi / 26 September 2016
Emerging Tech: Personal Calendar Assistant AI
Guess how much of your precious time is wasted getting a meeting on your calendar. On average, scheduling a meeting involves eight emails, which you have to track over 2.... Read More
Gina Hall / 26 September 2016
IoT Series : Rise Of The Data-Driven Workplace
A company can have the best product or service, the most efficient operation, and great leadership, but its success often comes down to the routine behaviours of its employees. Day... Read More
Jonathan Camhi / 08 September 2016
Focus on Big Data In Recruitment
Nasstar PLC proudly presents an introduction to big data in the recruitment industry. In this video members of Nasstar's recruitment division discuss how big data is being used in the... Read More
Guise Bule / 15 August 2016
Why Law Firms Must Embrace ‘The Cloud’
There is a huge dichotomy between the typical law firm IT Director struggling to ‘keep the lights on’, commissioning more and more storage as the demand for data grows exponentially... Read More
Nasstar Marketing / 29 June 2016