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The sun glinted off the gold metal head of C-3PO, forcing General Leia to shield her eyes. “I think we need to change the colour of these units to something less reflective. We need to campaign to make that another New Republic directive,” she told her assistant. He nodded and tapped her instructions into his hand-held computer. Leia went on: “There are lots of rules and regulations we need to change now that the Empire is gone. We need to ask the senate to ban force choking

Kryten threw down the spanner and sighed. “There’s never enough time to do the repairs we need when I have all this extra paperwork to do,” he said, shaking his head. “Space-worthiness certificates, proof of pilot training, proof of manual handling training, cargo manifests…” The Cat smiled: “Why do we need to do all that paperwork? There’s no one left to check up on us! It’s just, you, me, Lister…” Kryten sighed: “And Rimmer.” “Ah!” The Cat said. “Rimmer. He’s making you adh

Gavin put the phone down and shook his head. “We’re not ready. We’re just not ready,” he muttered, throwing in his coat and stalking out of the office. He walked down through the town to Barry Island, past Marco’s cafe, down to the makeshift grotto. Neil The Baby stood outside with fake antlers on his head. “All right Uncle Gavin?” he asked. Gavin shook his head: “Not really, Neil. Is your mum in?” Neil nodded: “She is, but you know the rules…” Gavin nodded back and handed ov

Nadia stormed out of the house meeting and slammed the door. “I cannot believe that Laszlo!” she said, baring her vampire teeth. “I come in with some fantastic ideas about running the vampire theme park we’re building in England, and he just huffed and said he was leaving it all to some piece of fruit!” She transformed into a bat and flew out of the window. “I need some space away from my husband!” she shouted as she left. Colin Robinson opened the door, left the room, and sh

Fleabag looked at her sister’s terrible haircut and looked back at the camera. “Hair is everything,” she said. Claire sniffled on the park bench. “Come on,” Fleabag said. “We’re going to see Anthony…” **** In the salon, Anthony looked at the picture in Claire’s hand. “So this is what you brought me and this is what I gave you…isn’t it?” he said. “Yes, Anthony,” Claire and Fleabag said together. Defeated. Outside, Fleabag looked to camera. “He always does th

If you're in the process of implementing an information management system to meet the requirements of ISO 27001 then one of your major...

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The Finding It may be beneficial to encourage [the shredding company] to gain a UKAS accredited ISO 27001 certificate, to further...

The Finding Laptops are encrypted. Policy ISP 11 should define encryption levels. Some Context to the Finding It is normal to use...

The building manager stood in front of Nakatomi Plaza with his mouth open. “It looks like a battlefield,” he said. A car had smashed...

As it's 1st December, you've kind of got to sing "five gold stars" as though you were singing the line "five gold rings" in the Christmas...

The Maltings Document Storage Solutions Ltd (MDSS) specialises in the provision of document storage, scanning and destruction. They have...

John Hammond took the tour group to the main control room. “Everything is run from here, all the security is computerised, so everything...

The War Operation Plan Response (WOPR) computer played out all the scenarios. The noughts, the crosses, always tying the games. Then, it...

Professor Peach leaned back on the bunk in his cell and started reminiscing. “It was 50 years ago now, of course, and so much has...

Are you sure about that? Once upon a time in 2018 when there was heightened awareness of the need to implement data privacy and...

Obi Wan Kenobi pulled back his hood. “Hello, there,” he said, looking straight at the head Jawa standing in front of him. The Jawas said they’d had enough of travelling around Tatooine looking for scrap technology and second-hand robots to sell on. They wanted a more profitable business, tendering for droid reclamation services for Landau Calrissian. The trouble was, Calrissian wanted to make sure there were no legal problems with anyone he dealt with. All his subcontractors

One of the biggest changes brought in by the General Data Protection Regulation was the increase in fines for data breaches. Since its implementation in 2018, the maximum fine has risen from £500,000 under the Data Protection Act 1998 to 20 million euros or 4% of worldwide annual turnover, whichever is the highest. In the past three years, the UK regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office, has imposed several large financial penalties for businesses which have breached

Three years ago, one of the biggest changes to data protection legislation in our lifetime came into force in the UK. The General Data Protection Regulation became legislation in 2018, bringing with it tighter rules for the gathering, sorting, and processing of personal data. This month, our blogs will focus on information security, how GDPR changes things, and what penalties businesses and other organisations have faced for data breaches. This week, we look at the three impo

Across the UK, thousands of organisations and businesses have employees working from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In our last...