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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.

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.

Script kiddies, human error, low-level criminals, disgruntled employees, serious organised cyber criminals, nation state-sponsored groups. When we talk about cyber threats, these are the ‘threat actors’ likely to be behind them.

Choosing the correct Software Escrow protection to fit your business can be a challenging task. With so many options out there, how do choose the protection which fits your needs?

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? 

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?

As we get closer to the third anniversary of the introduction of GDPR legislation we have witnessed the number and severity of fines for breach of GDPR steadily increase. 

Each year, the headlines in the media about cyber-attacks don’t change much, with ‘cyber-attacks are on the rise’ and ‘cyber-attacks are getting more sophisticated’ being just two we see most often.