Safe4 are delighted to announce that they are to work closely with IT Farm, a Manchester-based specialist cloud services provider. With a long history of offering cloud services in the UK, IT Farm have been providing high quality outsourced IT support services, including hosted desktop and telephony solutions, to the professional services sector in the UK. […]
The Safe Harbor data privacy agreement between the US and the EU was deemed to be ineffective in 2015, and was subsequently replaced with a Privacy Shield arrangement – which is still considered by many to be inadequate. Recent announcements by the new US administration suggest that the internal data privacy laws in the US […]
Further upgrades and enhancements to Safe4 are being introduced, as version 4.6 of the secure document delivery and storage service is released. As well as a series of significant improvements to both security and performance, the new release also provides a comprehensive refresh to the user interface for most parts of the system. The key changes […]
Almost everyone who has an email account will have received large numbers of unsolicited emails from an unknown sender requesting that the recipient “click here” to gain access to a website or service that offers something of interest or value. Some of these are laughably inept, and are so obviously scams that they can be […]
The Safe4 Conference 2016, held at Dartmouth House in London in November, proved to be a highly successful day. A very high-profile UK public service client, a leading international bank, an organisation specialising in training and talent development, and a membership organisation serving the will-writing and inheritance planning profession all gave presentations at the event, and […]
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is looming. This EU-originated legislation will come into force in 2018, and already many UK organisations are becoming aware of the impact that the new regulation will have. The imposition of heavy fines and the more onerous responsibilities placed upon data controllers and data processors are concentrating the minds of […]
Safe4 has been evolving steadily since launch in 2010, and the latest release is delivering some valuable enhancements. As well as a series of underlying improvements to performance and security, some specific changes in functionality are included in this version: The maximum number of failed login attempts has been set at 5, after which the […]
Safe4 launched the Digital Inheritance Vault at the Society of Will Writers Conference in October 2015, and this has subsequently been presented at many of the Society’s regional group meetings. Members have been taking up the vault as a means of helping their clients to manage their inheritance plans and digital legacy, and many are […]
It is no major surprise to learn that a major email service provider has been hacked – again – and that millions of people have had their personal information exposed to criminals. This is highlighted in an interesting article in The Times, published today. What is still very unfortunate, however, is that a large number […]
Many millions of people now are using online systems that are hosted in the cloud. However, do we all know what that means, or the location where our vital information is being held? The dramatic rise in the use of social media in the last decade has meant that a vast amount of personal information […]
