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what's worth knowing?Cyber Questions for the Board
As cybercrime becomes the new normal Lead Executives and the Board need to ask some serious questions about their organisation’s Cyber Protection.
read moreRobots: Is it true that they are coming for our jobs?
It’s been known for a while that machine learning and artificial intelligence may replace some forms of work. This article expands on this theme.
read moreCulture – Culture is Trouble with a Capital ‘C’.
The Trouble with CultureCulture Organisations have yet to get to grips with culture. There is a commonly held idea that by stating values for the organisation, that everyone within the organisation will live up to those values. This idea fails since so many...
read moreGDPR legislation is here, comply now or face paying out significant fines
Enforcement of the GDPR Data Privacy regulations is with us now. Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner for the Information Commissioner's Office, again reminded businesses and boardrooms that all organisations processing personal data have to comply with the...
read moreAre you in the mood for writing? The challenge of report writing.
In the Mood for writing - yes? What even in these cold dark days? You must be special, because most of us struggle with writing, particularly when the weather is grim and the days are short. You've heard about it in the movies and you've probably felt it yourself....
read moreAuditors and Data Analytics.
Auditors and Data Analytics Getting up to Speed! Auditors are getting up to speed with the use of data extraction, data analysis and data matching. Furthermore, many audit teams decide during the planning phase of audits, whether testing should be driven by Computer...
read moreCyberattack and cybercrime floors organisations.
Cyberattack. It gives us no pleasure to say this, but on a Cybercrime course we ran in Scotland only three weeks ago we suggested that basic precautions against cyberattacks, such as keeping patches bang up to date, were often lacking in some of the organisations that...
read moreTraining Events by Mindgrove for you.
We've populated our events calendar with training events that Mindgrove will be running. See them by selecting the 'Upcoming Events' option from our training menu. Some of the events are in Manchester (typically city centre) and some in London (typically W1). Most...
read moreReport writing – the issues for auditors.
Report writing - love it or hate it? Most of us, at least when we start, struggle to write an audit report. The difficult stems from two issues: firstly we are not sure about the required content, even though our team has a template to help do this. Secondly,...
read moreLive events – upcoming Mindgrove Training Courses
We've started to add live events, and upcoming training courses to our site. So that there will be something to look at over the next few weeks. Our connections to our Twitter and Facebook accounts are now live too. And it turns out that our office cat Giles wants to...
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