Blog & Insights Articles from Northdoor

Northdoor comment on the rise of cyber attacks in the charity sector. AJ Thompson CCO, Northdoor recommends cloud adoption for business continuity

Learn the importance of a robust IT infrastructure to your businesses, & take action to mitigate against unexpected occurrences

Discover how IBM FlashSystem 5000 combines cloud-like flexibility and pricing models with enterprise-grade performance, security and speed of provisioning.

Read about the state of cyber security in 2020 & discover how you can protect your business by guarding against the risk of a data breach.

Discover the huge costs of weak privileged access management & how to protect your business with IBM Security Verify Privilege Vault

Northdoor’s Cloud Managed Services can help your business gain the flexibility & cost-efficiency of cloud computing with minimal business risk

The key issues around cybersecurity in the insurance industry and advice to insurers on how best to protect their business.

Avoid leaving your data unsecure by learning from the largest cyber security breaches of 2020. Secure your data with Northdoor.

When your suppliers’ business continuity plans kick into action, it’s vital to ensure your data is protected against third-party cyber risks

With remote working on the rise, businesses are facing certain storage challenges. Read Northdoor plc’s Tom Richards’ take on it.

Discover how the IBM Storage Utility Offering allows you to pay only for the storage capacity you need. Read Tom Richards’ blog.

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

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

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

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

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

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. Read how businesses have had to adapt by adopting cloud principles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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