GDPR, in addition to the Data Protection Act, helps protect your customer’s data, but compliance can be complicated. The GDPR legislation is 261 pages long, but we can ensure you remain 100% compliant and avoid the hefty fines a data loss entails. Our Cyber Essentials accredited guidance and procedures can be followed by any business, large or small, and target improving internal procedures, IT security, and hardware monitoring.
GDPR legislation is in addition to the Data Protection Act. This legislation affects every business and individual that holds information, not only in the UK but also within Europe. While the document is 261 pages long, QLine IT can advise our Clients on how to ensure compliance.
GDPR compliance is not about spending money but about improving internal procedures, IT security, and hardware monitoring. QLine IT has staff qualified in GDPR compliance and has additionally gained Cyber Essentials accreditation.
Pay attention to your obligations under this legislation. The fines can be up to 20 million Euros. QLine IT can help you update your compliance for just a few hours of labour.
Can you answer YES to the following questions? If you answer no, then you need our help.
The ICO will ask these questions if you have a data breach.
Implementation of GDPR compliance is simple and is more about common sense. Ensure data is protected, only hold needed data, etc. Look at the media on which you store data, such as USB drives, DVDs, and cloud storage. Are these media formats encrypted? Do you have 2-step authentication (2FA) to protect your online accounts?
QLine IT can help ensure your GDPR compliance. Keep your data protected!
Data Encryption Security
Encrypting your business data is one of the strongest recommendations of the GDPR legislation and to this end, it is essential as a first line defence against data loss.
Encryption means “the process of converting information or data into a code, especially to prevent unauthorised access”. In everyday parlance, it means to lock your data.
Every computer we maintain is fully capable of continuing to operate to its maximum business potential whilst having its data fully encrypted.
Secure Passwords
With the new GDPR legislation making itself known, QLine IT has assisted our existing Clients to ensure they meet the new rigorous standards. There are many ways to keep your data safe however, the most obvious method is often ignored. Passwords are frustrating, they are difficult to remember, or to change or to think of a different password for each website and login. However, a good password could save you from identity fraud or prevent unauthorised access to your data.
The most common type of password used is a dog’s name, or a date of birth or a street name. Simply passwords are often guessable or easily cracked. Using a password that contains something personal to the user is the most insecure type of password.
The answer is a randomly generated password. The minimum length should be 8 characters.
Online software, such as https://passwordsgenerator.net will provide you with randomly generated characters to make your password secure, meeting industry password standards.
Obviously, you will never remember these new passwords, so we recommend using a secure password vault in which you can securely store passwords for all sites and profiles. A good password vault is https://www.stickypassword.com
If you change your passwords at least every 2 months, use unique passwords for each website and randomly generate your passwords, you will decrease the risk of fraud.
AV Malware Protection
In the sphere of IT, there are no greater causes of long term downtime than when your business is affected by a virus, malware or ransomware. Each of these pose their own individual set of problems but collectively they can all cost you critical company data, productivity and therefore time and money if not dealt with correctly; in fact, the threat of cyber-crime ranks higher than physical theft in a recent study of UK bosses’ biggest security threat to their business.
As a professional managed IT provider, QLine IT are advocates of always being prepared for such eventualities by never leaving a Client’s computer systems unprotected.
What is the solution?
Our comprehensive suite of IT AV malware protection software tools combined with an automated system which continually scans to identify and contain threats before they can cause damage to your business network is the best way to ensure your workflow can continue uninterrupted.
These safe guards come as standard with all QLine IT maintained hardware, we also offer complete off & on-site backup services so that even in the event of an attack occurring, your data is always fully recoverable.
