Some recent blog posts on the Safe4 website have highlighted the importance of the Digital Legacy – to a great extent this has concentrated on the quantitative aspects of the estate that we will all leave behind. One of the key duties of an executor is to ensure that the value of all assets is […]
Almost all of us now use electronic systems to help to manage different aspects of our lives. Many of these are online, and use services based in what is known as “The Cloud”. Safe4 is a classic example of this, and uses the Cloud to good effect to make sharing and managing documents online possible […]
In conjunction with the Society of Will Writers, Safe4 have created a Digital Inheritance Vault to be launched at the Society’s annual conference on 5 and 6 October 2015 in Redditch, Worcestershire. The Vault will be available to members of the Society, who provide an extensive range of inheritance planning services to their clients: wills, […]
Dropbox users may have experienced some difficulty and inconvenience following their recent outage. However, Safe4 achieved another month of 100% availability in August. With the exception of very brief periods of pre-planned server maintenance, Safe4 has provided customers with continuous service for nearly 5 years. Using UK-based data centres that are accredited to the ISO […]
Unsurprisingly, more evidence is emerging all the time of fraud perpetrated by criminal gangs against law firms who do not manage transactions involving financial transfers securely. This article, published in The Times on Friday 4 September, highlights some of the causes. As ever, one of the root causes is the use of email to transfer […]
I imagine the very recent news that customer data has reportedly been stolen from Ashley Madison, a dating website, will send a few hearts fluttering and pulses racing. Without wishing to pass judgement on the company or people who use it, how much longer will it take for all manner of organisations to realise they […]
Customers across a number of different business sectors are using Safe4 to increasingly positive effect, both within their own businesses, and more importantly to get confidential information to external parties without risking the use of email. In addition to the overriding value to be gained by avoiding the inappropriate use of email, Safe4 customers are […]
July 2015 saw yet another record month for Safe4, with the highest monthly number of new users so far, and 100% availability. Average page response times were well under half a second, meaning that Safe4 customers and their clients were able to gain very rapid access to the service at all times. Safe4 remains one […]
Much has been made in recent times of the benefits that can be derived from cloud computing. In fact the speed of growth in use of “the cloud” has been one of the major factors in the IT industry for most of the last decade. But how safe is cloud computing? Traditionally a profession that […]
Safe4 has been enhanced again by the addition of stringent password strength checks for new users, and the ability to download some system reports directly into a .csv file for further analysis and manipulation. This will be further improved by extension to all reports in the near future. At Safe4 we are constantly seeking ways […]
