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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.

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.

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.

Advancements in technology are creating a huge shift in the way we as end users are incorporating critical applications into our organisations. Locally installed on-premise applications which require huge financial and time outlays to purchase and integrate are being replaced with SaaS applications delivered through a third party hosting partner. 

What are phishing scams? In this article, Adam Boland of SES explores the various types of phishing attacks and the steps you can take to defend against them.

European Cloud Computing giant OVH have announced last week that a major fire has destroyed one of its Strasbourg data centres and damaged another. The disaster is estimated to have brought more than 3.5 million websites offline. 

As we begin 2021 it is important to reflect on 2020 and the challenges we faced, preparing us for what lies ahead as we get back to what many describe as “the new normal”.

Effective from the 23rd February we are contacting each customer to confirm the company name change. From 2005 we have been trading as Financechain Limited t/a SES Software Escrow Solutions, company registration number 3551656.

Do you understand the potential risks of third party developed, cloud based applications? Last week we shared a piece of content discussing some of the dangers of becoming reliant on unprotected third party applications and within minutes of sharing it one customer was already on the phone to us. 

What is a Software as a Service (SaaS) model? And what are the benefits of a SaaS Escrow Agreement? Adam Boland of SES explains the steps you can take to protect your business critical applications delivered through a SaaS model.