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Four questions to ask when implementing cloud software
- 09 Dec 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
As ICAEW issues a software adoption checklist for accounting firms and finance teams, here are some of the critical questions you need to ask of software vendors.
Foreign and AI threats grow
- 26 Nov 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Cyber espionage and foreign threats were a big topic this month, as the UK continues to focus on beefing up its national security and the resilience of critical infrastructure, operations and services.
The seven essentials of a good cyber strategy
- 16 Apr 2024
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Businesses can draw upon a range of recognised standards to lay the foundations of a cyber strategy – but keeping your organisation secure doesn’t stop there. Cyber security and GDPR consultant Paul Rolison outlines best practice measures for creating an effective cyber strategy.
Everything you needed to know about cyber insurance
- 14 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Cyber insurance has never been more crucial for businesses. Here’s a guide to what you should be looking out for when choosing a provider.
Hackers almost breached this firm’s systems. Here’s what they learned
- 13 Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Security experts at a mid-tier audit firm knew they had to act swiftly when they discovered an attempt on their own system, in which their servers were almost breached by cyber criminals, and used it as a lesson to bolster their own security and training across the business.
CORPORATE FINANCE FACULTY
Insights: In line online
- 10 Oct 2025
- Nicholas Neveling
- ICAEW
- Corporate Financier
Cyber attacks targeting M&A processes can have financial, reputational and opportunity costs for vendors, buyers and advisers. Dealmakers cannot afford to ignore the risks. Nicholas Neveling reports.
CHARITY COMMUNITY
Data protection – are you aware of the recent changes?
- 09 Oct 2025
- Kristina Kopic
- ICAEW
- Charity Community Newsletter
In June 2025, the Data Use and Access Act became law, marking the most significant change to UK data protection rules since GDPR came into effect. But what does this mean in practice, especially for charities, who often rely on data to understand their supporters, deliver services, and measure impact?
Cyber attacks cause disruption and bankruptcy fears
- 30 Sep 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
This month's cyber round-up covers large-scale attacks causing significant disruption and supply chain bankruptcy risks. We also look at the growing prevalence of insider threats in schools, and how AI enables malicious activities.
Cyber: key lessons from the recent hacks and breaches
- 31 Jul 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
This month’s cyber-security round-up covers major cyber attacks causing financial losses and data breaches, highlights the risks of poor data protection, stresses the need for strong cyber-security culture and reviews artificial intelligence-driven cyber-security advances.
HMRC turns the spotlight on GDPR provisions
- 21 Oct 2024
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
In Spotlight 65, HMRC has alerted taxpayers to issues with provisions for potential general data protection regulation (GDPR) fines or civil claims.
PRACTICE DEPARTMENT
Outsourcing and GDPR – getting to the facts
- 07 Oct 2024
- Advancetrack
- ICAEW
- Practicewire
There is much commentary around GDPR compliance and outsourcers…but can you cut through the sales pitches and get to the facts? Advancetrack explains what needs to be done.
Cyber round-up: March 2024
- 27 Mar 2024
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
This month we look at what can be learned from state-sponsored cyber attacks, how to avoid falling victim to increasingly sophisticated account takeover scams, and the ICO guidance on levels of fines for data breaches.
Accountability: building trust and ethics in the digital age
- 05 Mar 2024
- Gavin Aspden, PwC Partner and Professional Development Head
- ICAEW
New technologies are a force for good – they fuel innovation, improve efficiencies, enhance communication, and increase productivity – but they also raise new challenges that can be harmful. We’ve witnessed in recent years how technology has had undesirable consequences, with data breaches and online surveillance resulting in widespread concerns over privacy, security, and the spread of disinformation. This has eroded trust in businesses and institutions, while simultaneously knocking the confidence of businesses to fully embrace technological change.
Cyber month: why AI offers both security and threat
- 12 Oct 2023
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
The average cost of data breaches is increasing, particularly for smaller firms, while AI is increasingly used for both cyber security and malware.
Opportunities and risks follow ICO call for SME advice
- 20 Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
As the Information Commissioner’s Office urges accountants to help SME clients navigate data protection legislation, Matthew Wilkinson-Foster explains the opportunities and risks this presents.
ICO urges accountants to bolster SME data protection compliance
- 14 Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
The data protection regulator is calling on accountants to step up in helping their SME clients navigate complex data protection legislation, against a backdrop of further changes to the legislation.
Head in the clouds: cyber risks and data protection
- 28 Oct 2022
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
There is a common misconception that in moving to cloud-based systems, your technology environment is less secure. ICAEW’s Head of Data Analytics and Tech, Ian Pay, explores why this isn’t necessarily the case.
Will corporate data protection rules become less stringent?
- 04 Jul 2022
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Proposed law changes around corporate data protection measures appear to pave the way for a more relaxed regime – but is that really the case?
In the nick of time: EU grants UK data protection adequacy decision
- 29 Jun 2021
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
With the 30 June deadline approaching, the EU has agreed an adequacy decision for the UK, allowing the free flow of personal data from the EU to the UK to continue.
HMRC outlines late-filing penalty notices data breach
- 20 Apr 2021
- Tax Faculty
- ICAEW
ICAEW members in practice have been among thousands of agents who have received late-filing penalty notices which are not for their clients. HMRC has investigated and provided an update on what went wrong.
Data protection now the UK has left the EU: January 2021 update
- 04 Jan 2021
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Following the UK’s departure from the European Union, ICAEW Insights has the latest on how this affects GDPR and the sensitive issue of data protection.
TECH FACULTY
Managing risks through better design principles
- 01 Jun 2020
- David Lyford-Smith
- ICAEW
Organisations need to tackle the risks associated with adopting cognitive technology so that they can benefit from the potential efficiencies and insights that it can offer.
TECH FACULTY
Risks of cognitive technologies
- 01 Jun 2020
- David Lyford-Smith
- ICAEW
Key risk areas that have arisen from our research include inexplicability, data protection, bias and context, as well as wider automation risks. These areas include both larger-scale strategic risks around adopting cognitive technologies and tactical considerations that may affect specific projects.
EXCEL COMMUNITY
Saving to PDF in Office
- 20 May 2016
- Simon Hurst
- ICAEW
Blog post citing the case of a data breach by a hospital trust which made an Excel spreadsheet widely available and more data than intended could be accessed by double clicking on the live PivotTable. The author reminds users that such breaches can be avoided by saving the desired data to a PDF.
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