In January 2018, you’ll no longer have to pay any extra charges added for paying with your debit or credit card, because the government is stopping businesses from adding surcharges. A surcharge is an additional fee or payment. The change…
On 3rd January 2018, the revised MIFID II (a combination of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation) will come into force. Launched in response to the financial crisis, MIFID II is one of…
GDPR Will be Implemented in UK. U.K. to maintain its world-class protection of people’s personal data. Organisations need to understand GDPR Requirements including: Designating a Data Protection Officer (DPO). It has been reaffirmed in the Queen’s speech that the UK…
Risk Management Consultants Assent tell us why Your ISO 27001 Certification Days Could be About to Increase. ISO 27001 Certification has many benefits, time with external auditors can be well spent testing the effectiveness of your Information Security Management System. However, the…
The increasingly popular BS 10500 Anti-Bribery Standard has progressed to International level with release of ISO 37001 in October 2016. 20 national delegations from the five continents contributed to the development of the new ISO standard. Annex SL and Integrated…
Over the first weekend of April 2016 news began to emerge of another data leak. However this one seemed different, the media were already reporting it as the biggest data leak in history and there appeared to be implications for…
Traces of ‘cyber insurance’ or insurance coverage for digital risks within IT infrastructure started to be seen in policies as long ago as the 1980s. One of the first such policies was electronic computer crime insurance. In fact, the author…
The PSC (Persons with Significant Controls) Register is set to replace the current annual return form as of June 2016. As this will be on public register via Companies House, organisations should inform all everyone’s details which will appear on…
UK based Certification Body, the British Assessment Bureau, are warning eager small businesses to check the small print before starting the journey towards ISO certification, due to a large number of certificates being rejected due to them not being backed…
Following the break down of the Safe Harbour Agreement last October (2015), it looked difficult for EU and US authorities to agree a new deal to ensure adequate safe guards for personal data transferred and processed in the US. Despite…