Video: What Makes Nasstar Different?
At Nasstar, we are very proud of where we work, the service we provide to our clients and the teams we belong to. We’re a fast-paced, growing company with... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 12 November 2018
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Go Mobile, Stay Safe: How Organisations Can Mitigate the Impact of Missing Devices
IT security professionals need to have to 360-degree awareness when it comes to evaluating potential areas of cyber risk. Very often headline-grabbing nation state campaigns or sophisticated digital skimming operations... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 12 November 2018
Why is your recruitment business struggling to attract the rock stars needed to drive your business forward?
As a business leader, your number one priority is to uncover and develop the rock star talent needed to drive your business forward and when you've put those great teams... Read More
Mark Flynn / 05 November 2018
Three IT horror stories that will make you scream!
With today being Halloween, we look back on the three biggest IT disasters that have kept IT professionals up at night in recent years – and give advice on how to... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 31 October 2018
Guest Blog: MOD Warning for Law Firms
On the 9th of September I was reading the Sunday Mirror and saw the headline “MOD ‘Loses’ 60 Laptops” followed by “Security fears on military secrets” and “Losing stuff is... Read More
Bill Kirby / 22 October 2018
Guest Blog: Outsourcing - A Big Step Or Logical Next Move?
This week, we have a guest blog from Bill Kirby, director of Professional Choice Consultancy offering advice to firms on business issues from strategy, planning, business development, the effective use... Read More
Bill Kirby / 16 October 2018
How To Make Your Digital Workspace A Success
The digital workspace is a solution that enables employees to access the systems and tools they need from any device—smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop—regardless of location. However, when... Read More
Mark Flynn / 16 October 2018
Do You Know What The Basic Facts Are When It Comes To Cybersecurity?
There are three basic truths to keep in mind when it comes to cybersecurity. Firstly, no matter what, if you are connected online you are a target for criminals. Even... Read More
Mark Flynn / 01 October 2018
Common Cyber Security Attacks and How SMEs Can Fight Them
Small businesses are just as under threat from cyber security attacks as big businesses. There are some small business owners that believe they are just too tiny to be targeted.... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 24 September 2018
Nasstar’s Customers Recognised For Outstanding Achievements In The Professional Recruitment Sector
I’d just like to say congratulations to all those who made it to the 2018 Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) Awards For Excellence shortlist I was glad to... Read More
Mark Flynn / 18 September 2018
BA, Microsoft and TSB suffer IT meltdowns, what can be learnt from these disasters?
BA, Microsoft and TSB have all recently experienced spectacular IT failures and all of them seem to have exhibited the classic failing of poor planning, so let's reflect on each... Read More
Mark Flynn / 11 September 2018
Could AI Be Used To Fuel Cybercrime?
Cybercrime and cyber defence continue to evolve with new technologies and new methodologies. The first and most obvious next step is the integration of AI into cybersecurity. AI technology for... Read More
Mark Flynn / 04 September 2018
What Can We Learn From the Latest Cyber Security Reports?
It has been an interesting couple of weeks, it seems that everyone has decided to release their annual or quarterly reports on cybercrime at the same time. First up is... Read More
Mark Flynn / 28 August 2018
The Anti-Hacking Guide – 2018 Edition
In the homes of today, TV’s, kitchen appliances and sound systems can all be connected through our devices, which means they can also be hacked. Make sure to keep... Read More
Hollie Coote / 15 August 2018
Who Is the Biggest Threat to Your Cyber Security?
Cyber security Update: why rogue employees are your biggest threat, the impact AI is having on the cyber skills shortage and finally why you need to address the issue of... Read More
Mark Flynn / 06 August 2018
Can You Make Cost & Efficiency Savings With A Cloud-Based IT Strategy?
As business leaders, your number one job in life is finding the rock stars and leadership talent to drive your business forward. Once you've put together a great team, the... Read More
Mark Flynn / 31 July 2018
Three Things Every Recruitment Business Needs To Know About AI
The 3 things every recruitment business needs to do to unleash the AI beast and turn their businesses into a world beater! This week I talked with Alistair Rynish, CEO... Read More
Mark Flynn / 24 July 2018
Taking the Cost out of IT in the Recruitment Sector
In a competitive market, being able to make savings and reduce operating costs means your business has the reserves available to take on new investment opportunities, expand your business or... Read More
Mark Flynn / 24 July 2018
Managing Change In A Dynamic Recruitment Industry
As an international recruitment business with offices in China, Mexico and Europe, and revenues of $88 million, First Point Group are leaders in their industry. With a focus on the... Read More
Mark Flynn / 09 July 2018
How Two Recruitment Business Owners Lost Over £150k Of Their Own Personal Wealth Due To A Classic Phishing Attack
The fact is 90% of all successful cyber-attacks start with a phishing email and in this article, I’ll share with you how two recruitment agency business owners were defrauded... Read More
Mark Flynn / 05 July 2018
Is the Recruitment Sector Ignoring GDPR?
We sat down with Steve Peak, Head of Continual Service Improvement at Nasstar, who (in his own words) is busy developing a worryingly strong interest in GDPR consultancy. Within Nasstar,... Read More
Stephen Peak / 02 July 2018
Security Vs Flexible Working: How can Recruitment Agencies Get the Right Balance?
Grovelands is a specialist recruitment and resourcing agency, focused on niche industries including the Financial Services, FinTech and Life Sciences sectors. DJ Marker, Finance Director at Grovelands, spoke to us... Read More
Mark Flynn / 27 June 2018
5 Reasons Why Law Firms Should Use Hosted Desktop
1. Productivity Small to medium firms will work on much smaller margins than huge conglomerates, meaning that every billable hour is crucial. With an internal server, you find that if... Read More
Andy Lewis / 21 June 2018
How Better IT Can Improve Business Performance For SMEs
With so many SMEs looking to streamline their processes, increase the ROI and reduce business risk, more small businesses are realising that better IT such as managed IT services is... Read More
Mark Flynn / 18 June 2018
Is Norman, The 'Psychopath AI' One Step Too Far?
The week’s news has once again been dominated by AI. But there’s a good reason behind that due to some very interesting developments in that sector. The first... Read More
Mark Flynn / 11 June 2018
Pausing To Go Faster? How Are You Preparing Your Business For The Future Of Cybercrime?
Looking to the future has always been high on the agenda in the business world, but in recent years it has become even more apparent that the preparations we make... Read More
Mark Flynn / 06 June 2018
GDPR and Security in the legal sector
As we’re nearing the GDPR go-live date, we thought it would be a good time to reach out to a few industry experts about what they are seeing and... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 04 June 2018
How To Future-Proof Your Recruitment Business
It has been another interesting week with a big focus on the recruitment sector. Preparing for the future with Brexit holding us in its pessimistic vice like grip is difficult... Read More
Mark Flynn / 30 May 2018
Cloud in the Legal Sector
There is now a general acceptance across the sector around cloud technologies as more and more firms get ‘comfortable with cloud’. And, as cloud offerings mature, and the legal sector... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 30 May 2018
Why A Digital Workplace Strategy Will Revolutionise Your Workplace
Firstly, it’s important to know what a digital workspace is. Simply put, it’s the merging of smartphones and tablets with collaboration tools such as Office 365. Tip: check... Read More
Mark Flynn / 22 May 2018
Innovation in the Legal Sector
A recent report into innovation in the legal sector found that although many firms recognise that technological innovation can help them to differentiate themselves from the competition, many practices are... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 21 May 2018
Technology in the Legal Sector
In PWC’s 2017 Annual Law Firms survey, firms said that one of their top two priorities across Business Support functions was improving the use of technology. And, the focus... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 16 May 2018
Are You Ready To Make AI A Success In Your Business?
If there is just one standout theme for this week then it has to be - are you ready? Are you ready to make AI a success in your business?... Read More
Mark Flynn / 14 May 2018
GDPR: What Is The Impact On Your Business? (Webinar)
UK organisations will soon face a stark choice: comply with sweeping new European privacy rules, or risk the wrath of regulators and new fines of up to 4% of global... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 16 April 2018
Known Software Vulnerabilities: Your Biggest IT Security and Business Risk?
If the notorious Equifax breach of 2017 taught businesses anything, it’s what can happen if you fail to patch known vulnerabilities promptly. In fact, it’s no exaggeration to... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 16 April 2018
Security vs Usability In Smartphones - The Trade Off
With facial scanning, touch ID & voice recognition technology coming as standard in most new smartphones, are we swapping mobile security for mobile accessibility without even knowing it? Take a... Read More
Hollie Coote / 03 April 2018
Think Partnership, Not Just Business Relationship
In a recent Nasstar blog, we explored ways to supercharge your relationships with suppliers. We looked at some of the pillars of a client/supplier relationship and how to get... Read More
Howard Smith / 26 March 2018
Nasstar Talks Prevention and Detection to LPM Magazine
There are steps that firms can take to secure their data, whether staff are in the office or on the go. Nigel Redwood, CEO at Nasstar tells LPM how firms... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 19 March 2018
2017 Was The Year That Cloud Became The New Normal, So Why Are Some Industries Refusing To Look Skyward?
According to research conducted this year, worldwide revenue from cloud services is set to grow to over $200 billion by 2020, but some sectors are still dragging their feet when... Read More
Hollie Coote / 19 February 2018
Legal IT Landscapes: What's Going On In The World of SME Legal IT?
Nasstar is delighted to have sponsored this year’s Legal IT Landscapes survey, a comprehensive review which assesses whether SME firms have an IT strategy that’s fit for purpose... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 16 February 2018
Law Firms Exposed: New Research Reveals a Growing Cyber Threat
If you work in the legal sector there could be bad news lurking just round the corner. Law firms are not only coming under increasing scrutiny from cyber-criminals keen to... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 14 February 2018
How GDPR Will Impact Data Management Practices
On May 25th 2018, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become implemented into legislation and this means that for all those within the IT and data management industry,... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 30 January 2018
Tough Lessons: What We Can Learn from the Carphone Warehouse Saga
I’m not a huge fan of ambulance chasing in PR. As an IT journalist my inbox is usually full of vendor pitches looking to profit off the back of... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 15 January 2018
The Legal Battle of the Year: Security Vs Mobility
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 / 08 January 2018
The Cyber Security Year Ahead: Brace Yourself for a Bumpy 2018
Along with New Year's resolutions and the back-to-work blues, January is traditionally a time when security vendors release their predictions for the 12 months ahead. There’s always a fair... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 02 January 2018
The Twelve Days of Christmas Technology Roundup
From the medical innovations saving lives, to the dangerous cyber-criminals threatening them, take a look at the twelve tech topics that dominated the headlines this year. 1. Revolutionising road trips... Read More
Hollie Coote / 14 December 2017
Businesses Braced for Christmas Fraud Blitz Shouldn’t Forget About Data Security
Welcome to the most wonderful time of the year … if you’re an online fraudster. Police estimate that UK shoppers — and by implication, the businesses they shopped with — lost a... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 12 December 2017
Your 10 Point Plan for GDPR Readiness
With the deadline to GDPR fast approaching, check out the ten questions every data-driven CEO should be asking. GDPR. It’s the buzzword on everyone’s lips, but are you... Read More
Hollie Coote / 25 October 2017
The GDPR: An Opportunity Not a Curse for Firms
As the countdown to the May 2018 GDPR compliance deadline continues, the headlines are becoming increasingly frantic. There’s just seven months to go before maximum fines of 4% of... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 17 October 2017
What Operators Need to Know About the Latest EU Security Directive
If you mention the words “EU”, “compliance” and “cybersecurity” to most UK IT and business leaders, the chances are they’ll assume you’re talking about the General Data Protection... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 10 October 2017
Beyond Ransomware: MongoDB Attacks Highlight the Challenge of Securing the “Weakest Link”
Is there such as thing as a cyber ransom attack which doesn’t involve ransomware? Do vendors need to do more to prevent users making basic cybersecurity mistakes? Are IT... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 27 September 2017
Advantages Of Data Centre Outsourcing
Discover why it is best for your business to use a provider with their own Data Centre. There are many advantages of data centre outsourcing for your business. Benefits of... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 12 September 2017
Cyber security: Can your firm really afford to do nothing?
When it comes to cyber crime, there’s certainly no shortage of threats out there. These can affect all parts of your IT infrastructure: endpoint, network, servers and the cloud.... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 01 September 2017
Global IT spend to reach $1.5 trillion by 2022
The number of businesses embracing and updating new technology is expected to increase in the next five years. It is expected by 2022 the global market for data centres, software,... Read More
Tanzeel Akhtar / 22 August 2017
As IoT Becomes a Business Necessity, How Can IT Leaders Keep Their Organisation Safe?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the world, one device at a time. There will be an estimated 8.4 billion connected “things” in use this year, helping businesses... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 08 August 2017
Cyber Security for SMEs: A Practical Guide To Protecting Your Business
Do you think cyber threats only affect large enterprises? Think again! Phil Muncaster talks about how to keep key data and systems safe from harm in our latest practical guide... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 03 August 2017
How To Stay Safe Online
According to new research by recruitment finance provider, Sonovate, IT security professionals are currently the most sought-after workers in the UK’s growing jobs market. The growth for such roles... Read More
Ellen Bowers / 31 July 2017
Why VCs continue to see potential in cloud computing
Investors love throwing money at technology start-ups. Recent statistics show venture capital (VC) fundraising has picked up steam with technology gobbling up most of the funding. Last year European VC... Read More
Tanzeel Akhtar / 13 July 2017
How To Choose The Best Cloud Solution For Your Business
Every business needs a cloud solution but choosing the right one for yours can be tricky thanks to the large amount of options available. If implementing a cloud solution is... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 10 July 2017
Why Professional Services Firms Are Moving To The Cloud
The cloud debate is over for SMBs. There’s no longer a discussion about whether or not to move to the cloud, because most businesses have already done it. In... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 20 June 2017
No One Is Delivering True Hybrid Cloud…But We Are
Everyone is talking about hybrid cloud delivery, but who is actually delivering true hybrid cloud solutions that seamlessly integrate public and private cloud environments with your software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, such... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 19 June 2017
How Technology Has Changed The Recruitment Sector
I was recently asked about the ways in which I believe technology has changed the recruitment sector over the past 10 years; an interesting subject as it’s a sector... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 31 May 2017
Cybersecurity In The Recruitment Sector
It’s said that the lifeblood of any recruiter is their candidate data. The lists, the contact information, the CVs – it’s all valuable IP. Without this data, how can... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 30 May 2017
Countdown to GDPR: One Year to Go Until Deadline D-Day
In exactly a year’s time (25 May 2018), UK organisations will face a stark choice: comply with sweeping new European privacy rules, or risk the wrath of regulators and... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 23 May 2017
Cloud Nine Security
Nasstar's CEO spoke to Legal Practice Management magazine this month about the changing cybersecurity landscape and how firms can prepare. Given the large scale ransomware attack on the NHS and... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 17 May 2017
GDPR And The Legal Sector: Separating Fact From Fiction
At the moment, everywhere I turn I am met with yet another article scaremongering about the latest General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I've heard stories of fines for non-compliance of... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 02 May 2017
Calling All Board Members: It’s Time to Seek Cybersecurity Help
We all know that organisations up and down the UK are facing an ever-growing threat from cyberspace. But just how big is the scale of this threat, and how well... Read More
Phil Muncaster / 27 April 2017
The Hacker Will Always Get Through - If You Let Them
With hacking and cybersecurity now pretty much constantly in the news, the question is: will the hacker always get through? For example, at the time of writing this piece, an... Read More
Charles Christian / 11 April 2017
GDPR - Time to Act?
Guy Deterding, managing director of Nasstar For Recruitment, talks to Recruitment International about what the new General Data Protection Regulations mean for recruiters, and why they should start preparing now.... Read More
Guy Deterding / 07 April 2017
IS IT A CLOUD? IS IT A HACKER? NO, IT’S A SPOF!
At the beginning of March this year, Amazon Web Services suffered a spectacular outage that not only brought down a sizeable chunk of the public cloud in the United States... Read More
Charles Christian / 16 March 2017
Guy On The Big Screen
Nasstar's Recruitment Division Managing Director, Guy Deterding chatted to Employment Innovation TV at the recent Recruitment Agency Expo 2017 about what makes us stand out from the crowd as a... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 07 March 2017
Top Female Tech Influencers – Why Female Mentors Matter in Tech
In an industry with a huge diversity problem and the gender pay gap widening it is no wonder that the number of women embarking on a career in technology is... Read More
Ellen Bowers / 06 March 2017
10 Jobs Created by Tech That Didn’t Exist 10 Years Ago
2017 is well and truly are here, most of us have probably failed miserably at keeping our resolutions, and are already counting down the days to Christmas when the diet... Read More
Ellen Bowers / 25 January 2017
Nasstar Prophecies : 2017 Recruitment Edition
Welcome to the 2017 recruitment edition of the Nasstar Prophecies, where head of Nasstar For Recruitment, Guy Deterding, makes a valiant attempt to predict the future of the recruitment industry... Read More
Guy Deterding / 18 January 2017
I’ve seen the future of tech, and it’s flexible
Does anybody remember Minority Report? It’s the movie about a police unit that can arrest criminals before they commit a crime. It deals with ‘precrime’. Lovely word. Minority Report... Read More
Sandra Vogel / 09 December 2016
The Biggest Stories About Women in Technology in 2016
In the year where PayPal held an all-male panel on gender equality in the workplace and failed to see the irony, women working in technology appear to have the odds... Read More
Ellen Bowers / 18 November 2016
Why You Don’t Need a New Recruitment CRM
As leader of a recruitment business you’re probably used to hearing your managers complain about their CRM, mainly that it does not support the way they do business. They... Read More
Guy Deterding / 09 November 2016
4 Ways Office 365 Will Change The Way You Work
Most people’s eyes will cloud over or their brows will furrow when you mention the phrase ‘IT solutions’, as for many businesses having an in-house IT solution that fits... Read More
Ellen Bowers / 31 October 2016
The Unexpected Benefits Of ‘Working Open’
It’s funny. If you believed a lot of management consultants, all you need to do is pay people more and you get the best people lining up at your... Read More
Doug Belshaw / 28 October 2016
How Internet Hate Causes Change
The internet is a public medium, it allows everyone a voice, giving a mouthpiece to everyone with a secure Wi-Fi connection. The internet is a ground-breaking interactive marketplace of ideas,... Read More
Ellen Bowers / 21 October 2016
The Cloud Vision and Next Generation Technologies
Every year Nasstar holds its Stakeholders Forum meeting, which is an opportunity to gather our top 30 clients from across the group in a room together for a two day... Read More
Lydia Cooper / 23 August 2016
Service Management – A glimpse of tomorrow..
Visionary leadership with respect to Service Management is not about planning for the changes tomorrow but about shaping the day after tomorrow. Service Desks of Tomorrow Service Desks are thought... Read More
David Flacks / 22 August 2016
The Easy Avoidance Of A Very Real Risk
According to Land Registry statistics there are still 4,500 law firms that do conveyancing. It is generally a risky business with clients and referrers demanding a quick response and... Read More
Guise Bule / 29 June 2016