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Benefits of IBM Flash Storage for remote workforces

Discover how you can speed up the responsiveness of mission-critical systems & increase productivity with the IBM Flash Storage Family

What is Privileged Access Management and why is it important?

Discover the importance of Privileged Access Management (PAM) and its role in controlling important company information.

easyJet data breach and why the airline has fallen foul of its customers

Impacted easyJet customers are taking class-action lawsuits in response to their data being breached under GDPR legislation

Remote working and GDPR compliance

Discover how to remain GDPR compliant whilst working remotely and how to respond to a GDPR request when data is distributed

Tips to stay cyber secure during remote working

Increasing cyber secuirity for remote working. Our top tips for keeping your workforce cyber secure while working from home.

Remote workforce: Protect your rapidly growing attack surface

Read how employee-owned devices & home networks that are not protected by enterprise security controls have rapidly expanded many organisations’ attack surfaces

Cloud adoption is vital for business continuity during remote working

Cloud adoption is vital for business continuity during remote working. Read how businesses have had to adapt by adopting cloud principles.

Don’t give up the keys to the kingdom

Privileged Access Management often falls short of the required standards. Deploying a PAM solution can help companies take back control.

Faster, easier, less costly – new all-flash storage from IBM

Using products from the new FlashSystem family, Northdoor can help companies simplify data storage, reduce costs & increase resilience.

How Northdoor are supporting customers and staff during remote working

AJ Thompson Chief Commercial Officer discusses how Northdoor plc is supporting customers and staff during remote working.

IBM FlashSystem 9200 for multi-cloud storage

IBM FlashSystem 9200 with IBM Spectrum Virtualize hypervisor enables companies to virtualise existing arrays from IBM and other vendors.

Data Protection and GDPR Compliance

Northdoor outlines COVID-19 data protection challenges for remote working: Business Continuity, GDPR Compliance, cyber security services plus an offer.

Staying Cyber Secure: Top tips to keep your business safe during COVID-19

Tips to keep businesses cyber-secure during the pandemic as the result of unprecedented shift to distance working and new cybersecruity challenges.

How data discovery platforms are vital to protect your high-value data

Searching for sensitive unstructured data across the entire digital estate is a significant requirement to meet both contractual and compliance obligations

5 Tips For Effective Data Discovery and Classification

Five tips and best practices to help companies strategically plan and implement a flexible approach to data discovery and classification.

Recent cyber-attack shows the potential vulnerability of local authorities

AJ Thompson’s thoughts on how the public sector can fight back against cyber attacks using a robust, resilient approach to data protection.

Helping charities understand their cyber risks

Cyber Risk Assessment of the UK charity sector, a report that shows the state of the industry and provides targeted recommendations for improvement.

How Brexit will impact GDPR and other data regulations

With Brexit, how will the UK’s withdrawal from EU impact data regulations? In many ways GDPR & Brexit has clouded the main point of regulations.

Avoiding common pitfalls in conventional Data Warehouse Projects: The six golden rules for successful deployment

Six golden rules for avoiding the typical pitfalls encountered during conventional data warehouse projects & how to successfully deploy them.

Data warehouses done the right way

A blog post on the advantages of a proven, packaged, highly automated approach to designing and deploying a data warehouse.

Finding certainty in an uncertain world – preparing your IT systems for anything

IBM i 7.4 is an opportunity for users to step up the resilience and versatility of their business-critical enviroments to greater heights

Speed, agility and proven outcomes in data warehousing

Northdoor repeatable data warehouse solution, combinies highly skilled consultants with advanced tooling to enable speed, surety and adaptability.

Key considerations for businesses to safeguard their data - Third Party Risk

A checklist and some key considerations for businesses to secure data against third party risk under the General Data Potection Regulation.

Free SQL Server Security Tools

SSMS has tools to run a series of checks at server and database level to review potential security risks & assess what confidential data could be breached.

Getting to grips with cyber risk in the insurance industry

By providing insurers with crucial insight & recommendations, Northdoor shed light on how the insurance industry can improve their security posture.

Do insurers really understand their own exposure to cyber threats?

While insurers may help their clients prepare for the unexpected, they are not all doing the same when it comes to their own cyber risk strategies.

Find and protect personal data

Available as either a one-off scan or a continuous service, the Northdoor Data Discovery Service based on Geolang Technology is ideal for data governance

Digging up the dirt on data discovery

The blog introduces GeoLang’s Ascema Platform for Sensitive Data Discovery and the joint GeoLang-Northdoor service offering.

Social Engineering attacks: How you keep your organisation safe

A social engineering attacks could bypass all of corporate security defences within minutes. Find out what to look out for, and other prevention tactics

How Best To Secure Your SQL Server

The best way to ensure that a system is secure is to design it from the ground up with security in mind, so consider everyone interacting with a system.

SQL Server Performance Tips

SQL Server performance tips starts around the design. This blog covers some tips that will ensure your database performs to the best of its ability

The Insurance CIO’s Inbox

Richard Jefferies describes some of the internal emails the CIO would receive from their C-suite colleagues about digital transformation

Still running SQL Server 2008 R2 or later? You are missing out!

SQL Server latest version is a fully supported platform. Upgrade to take advantage of the latest innovation & improvements

Introducing SQL Server 2019

An overview of the new Microsoft SQL Server 2019 database engine features that bring innovative performance, security and compliance features and enhancements.

To the Cloud! SQL options in Azure

In this post, we provide an overview of the Northdoor services available to companies for running SQL Server and SQL Server databases in Azure.

Don’t panic: A practical guide to handling Data Subject Access Requests

By introducing automated data classification & our web-based DSARs response solution, organisations save significant time reducing the risk of non-compliance

Information alchemy: Transforming base data into business gold

By introducing automated data discovery & classification, organisations can rapidly transform raw data into business insight & competitive advantage.

Fight fraud with advanced multi-dimensional analytics

Rules-based anti-fraud measures can’t adapt fast enough to changing criminal tactics. Try flexible, intelligent, multi-dimensional analytics

Getting the balance right: securing systems without limiting user productivity

Northdoor stays abreast of the latest advances In cyber-security. IBM i 7.4 is the key to a more effective, agile security strategy

Take control of sensitive and personal data across multiple systems

Automated data discovery, classification helps companies understand what sensitive data they hold, for faster responses to Subject Access Requests (SARs)

Protecting critical data in the multi-cloud age

Using AI-powered automation, our solution accelerates backup, cuts costs & frees up IT personnel from low-level administration.

Your money or your data: why immutable data is key in the fight against ransomware

With immutable data backups from Northdoor, organisations can ensure that data is protected, and easy to restore in the event of a ransomware attack.

Are you placing your bets on the right technology?

Upgrade To IBM i 7.4 to gain new capabilities that enable unprecedented service continuity, working with Northdoor for a seamless transition

Leading change in the real world

In our latest blog, Richard Jefferies, Insurance Client Manager, explores key factors for consideration when managing change in the real world

Why a 360° view is crucial to monitor and mitigate cyber risk

The threat of cyber-attacks faced by organisations need a consistent approach to monitoring and mitigating cyber-attacks. We can help with your cyber defence planning.

Risk Assessment For Cyber Insurance

Organisations need to look at fast, acccurate, efficient pricing and risk assessment for Cyber Insurance Policies. AJ Thompson, Professional Security Magazine

GDPR Anniversary: Compliance Matters to Consumers

One year In, read what we have learned about how GDPR requirements have affected organisations and what still needs to be improved.

What is the London Insurance Market telling us?

Key Topics That London Market Insurance C-Level Executives Have Been Discussing At Some Events Of Multinational Insurers.

Backup – the number one enterprise application

Redirect skilled IT staff from low-level backup admin to truly protecting data with Northdoor AI-powered backup, delivers 99%+ success

Preserving unalterable copies of critical data

With the immutability of backed-up data, Financial Institutions will be able to rely on a copy of data to recover in a disaster.

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