Our latest entry in our Meet The Team series - Matt Watt from Account Management

Mark's first reflection on his training diary, eating habits and the early mornings

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council breached the Data Protection Act by losing an unencrypted memory stick containing the details of over 18,000 residents

I walked into a room full of equipment designed to test human (athletic) performance. No problem so far. But the audience of three (female) university students waiting to watch me suffer on a treadmill and a bike was scary.

We don’t just like to preach at Backup Direct…we explain how our very own disaster recovery plans were put into practice after a recent power outage at our managed offices

Blackberry’s recent data outage is a prime example of a badly handled situation. It staggers belief how things have got so messy with a complete failure of technology and customer communications.

Two organisations have taken action after they breached the Data Protection Act by failing to encrypt personal information on laptops that were later stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today.

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally destroying 10,000 archived records, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today.

In the UK more children and people under the age of 40 die of a brain tumour than any other cancer. Brain Tumour Research aims to raise at least £7 million per annum to significantly accelerate progress in UK brain tumour research, making a clinical difference and improving patient outcomes.

Sunday saw Mark (how strong is he going up hills!?), Nathan (Mr cool fast descender) and I (quite like the flat sections) complete a 150Km ride - the Bristol Belter.