How Tessian is helping Coastal Housing prevent mistakes turning into data breaches We all know that we should protect our email systems against the onslaught of spam, malware and sophisticated spear-phishing attacks. It’s practically a career in itself to stay abreast of the latest trends in email compromise techniques, vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits. But what…
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Coastal Housing
Testing Coastal’s payment plan
Coastal’s head of community housing had an idea to help our community housing officers (CHOs) with arrears and came to me to help find that solution. We had some demos of current systems and we visited a few other HAs, yet we didn’t find anything that suited how we wanted to work. We sat down…
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A day in the life at Coastal Housing
I’ve worked at Coastal Housing for over seven years and over six of them I’ve spent in the IT department. Back in July this year, I was promoted to be team leader of our business partner team which had just been expanded to include two others – the ‘team’ had been just me for a…
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Purpose reigns
Should all projects follow a recognised methodology? Having recently become a Prince2 practitioner, I was convinced that yes, they should. And, as the saying goes, if all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail, in the blinkered view I had at the time I was sure that the project methodology of…
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A day in the life… at Coastal Housing
If I’m feeling lazy, my day will start around 8am with black coffee and a mailbox of backup and maintenance notifications. If I’m not feeling lazy, I’ll slope in around 9am after being good and going to the gym, by which time the notifications will have been attended to by our lead support analyst, Mat…
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Spotlight on gender in housing IT
Coastal Housing Group and Sovereign Business Integration Group look at how gender diversity in housing IT is changing in a traditionally male-dominated sector. Has the role of women in society ever been so hotly debated? From women’s suffrage to the recent gender pay gap headlines, the debate rages on. Recent reports have gone onto reveal…
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