The Housing Technology 2020 conference in March seems a long time ago now and for many of us, it was the last time we networked and shared a drink or two; it’s safe to say life has changed considerably since then! In our conference presentation, we cast our minds back to 2019, a year of…
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Infrastructure
Pragmatic data governance and protection
ParaDPO was one of the ‘IT accelerators’ at the Housing Technology 2020 conference earlier this year; this article is an abridged version of Neil Topping’s presentation at the conference. What we have been finding is that data protection officers (DPOs) are now leaving their posts because it has been over two years since GDPR came…
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Cyber security during a crisis
All organisations, including housing providers and their partners, have had to rush into greatly expanded remote working arrangements because of the Covid-19 lockdown. For some, this has meant expanding existing well-controlled processes. For others, it has meant a panic trajectory where they have had difficulty acquiring equipment and have faced staff resistance. Some staff have…
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Making the most of a bad situation
Source: Clear Safety Clear Safety has recently expanded from mainly providing health and safety consultancy in the education sector to supporting housing providers with key compliance stream such as asbestos, fire and gas safety, legionella management, electrical safety, maintenance of lifts and door entry systems. Clear Safety’s IT systems had already undergone a recent upgrade…
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IT risk management – Tracking, monitoring and mitigating
Housing Technology interviewed IT risk experts from Incline-IT, Northgate Public Services, Riskhub and Waterstons on what IT risks housing providers should be keeping a close eye on and how they can plan for and mitigate those risks. What are the IT risks specific to social housing? Trevor Hampton, director of housing solutions, Northgate Public Services,…
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The life of an IT service provider amid Covid-19
When undertaking disaster recovery tests, I would sometimes shock clients by suggesting that we would like to respond to a real-life disaster in order to really demonstrate our team’s ability to quickly and efficiently overcome this type of situation. In reality, I didn’t expect that such an opportunity would arise and when the global pandemic…
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