SES Blog

As the world begins to reopen and we move on from the COVID 19 pandemic towards a “new normal” how has your approach to business continuity changed?

Not a week goes by where we don’t see a headline in the press mentioning something along the lines of “sophisticated phishing attack” or “new phishing attack approach”.

As part of our continued commitment to providing the highest levels of information security standards available in the UK Software Escrow industry, SES has achieved recertification of ISO: 9001 and ISO: 27001.

As we move on from the COVID-19 pandemic and return to the “new normal”. Darragh Lavin of SES explores how business continuity plans and the need to protect software assets has changed.

Join our survey "Understanding Your Cyber Security Landscape: 2021" for your chance to win an Executive Cyber Awareness session with the CEO of our Cyber Security partner, Protection Group International; usually charged at £3,000.

According to IBM’s 2020 Cost Of A Data Breach Report, the average total cost of a successful breach in 2020 was $3.86 million. Can you afford not to put a robust Incident Response Plan in place? 

Investing in critical applications is an exciting time for businesses, thinking about how they will streamline operations, help us generate more revenue and free up our time to focus on higher-value tasks.

Have you considered who would redeploy your software application in the event of a release? This often overlooked aspect of software resilience is one of the most important to consider. In the unfortunate event your supplier is no longer available to support your application and the Software Escrow agreement is called upon

Have you set out your business continuity plan to protect your organisation against unforeseen circumstances? The majority of businesses rely on 3rd party developed applications to perform business critical functions within their organisation. Whilst using these external suppliers provides major benefits to your organisation

What steps do you take to maximise your business continuity against unforeseen circumstances? This short series explores the protections SES has developed to provide our customers with guaranteed business continuity in the event your software supplier is unable to support your business critical applications.

Having a disaster recovery plan to protect against unforeseen circumstances is essential to getting your business back online should the worst happen. With that in mind, how do you test that the recovery plans you have invested in are robust enough to guarantee that your critical applications can be swiftly and accurately redeployed in the event of a release?

What is Penetration Testing and how does it protect your business? Adam Boland of SES explores how Penetration Testing enables you to identify weaknesses in your organisation’s cyber security.