Archive for 2019

Alphabetti Spagetti is a problem

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We’ve recently joined a Cyber Security forum, to keep up to date with threats from the Interweb:  the stuff of nightmares for IT security people.

(Of course, they themselves can also create headaches – things unexpectedly stop working when a so-called ‘patch’ is installed, because they hadn’t accounted for “Terry in Finance” linking to an old, but desperately needed programme on another server).

But these people are your guardians, the keepers of the keys: it is they who will protect you, and ...

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ICE is not just for Gin and Tonic

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Sipping on a pre-prandial ice-cooled G&T has been a big part of appreciating the unusally pleasant bank-holiday weather this year.  But whilst enjoying the great outdoors, the ICE I’ve been thinking about is the GDPR kind. That is, the “In Case of Emergency” information gathered by many employers from their staff.   A few of our clients have been asking about it:  what are the ‘rules’?  how to I justify it? what do I have to tell people?

We’ve all got ICE ...

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New Year, New Horizons

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JEM is pleased to welcome the addition of 7 Scottish hotels under the management of the ICMI group to our portfolio of service customers.

After working with a variety of hospitality providers in 2018 looking at their GDPR preparedness, including the ICMI family, it was great to be asked to offer a support function to these businesses. Although each one is different in their execution, the principles remain the same – there is staff data, supplier data and guest data: all ...

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