Don't risk your business with IT Security & Compliance - You need to meet ever-increasing security and compliance demands

Secure IT systems are vital for your business security, privacy and GDPR – as part of our service we can help you avoid non-compliance, hefty fines and reputational damage.

With the UK GDPR (substantially similar to EU GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 form the regulations in the UK for collecting, processing and storing personal information.

Complying with these regulations is a real challenge for small businesses. In most instances the personal information is low risk such as name and address detail. However, in some cases we’ve dealt with, organisations are dealing with sensitive data such as medical information.

Organisations are require to take reasonable steps to protect personal information they hold. In the event of a data breach, evidence that this risk based approach has been taken can be vital.

Hexagon IT holds ISO27001 the international standard for an information security management system. This provides a good focus for the technical and operational requirements to reduce the risk of a breach. However, this is a significant undertaking (we know from achieving it). It fits us as we process and store significant amount of information on behalf of clients in our cloud systems. However, it doesn’t lend itself easily to small business.

We’ve worked with a number of small businesses and not for profit organisations who process personal data some of it sensitive medical information. They need a simple but effective method to establish and crucially maintain compliance.