Friday 15 September 2017

By Charlotte Cloud.   As data breaches increase in frequency and severity, technology will become an increasingly important line of defence

Tuesday 28 March 2017

The most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years   What is GDPR?   The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and was designed to harmonise data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way organizations across the region approach data […]

Monday 23 January 2017

In the technology world, buzzwords come and go. At the moment ‘Machine Learning’ is doing the rounds. In essence it is how a computer gets smarter, by using data to ‘learn’.   But how can these learned behaviours affect of daily lives?

Wednesday 10 August 2016

Staying safe online shouldn’t be a kamikaze mission. But as fraud attacks grow more aggressive by the week, merchants seem to be over correcting for the problem, starving their businesses of sales. Each eCommerce merchant sets their own controls for determining fraud. The problem is that legitimate customers often fall foul of these rules. So […]

Friday 5 August 2016

Theresa May, the UK’s new Prime Minister, is tasked with ensuring a smooth transition for Britain from the EU. As we are all aware, the British public voted 52% to 48% to exit the group – now known the world over as “Brexit”.  We all have strong feelings about this and how it will affect […]

Tuesday 14 June 2016

February 2016 saw the 10th Anniversary of chip & PIN in the UK. Over this last decade, chip & PIN has become an integral part of the way we make payments. Chip in PIN cards were first tested in the UK in 2003, when Barclaycard carried out the biggest trial of chip & PIN cards […]

Friday 27 May 2016

SkyParlour make teamwork and togetherness an integral part of all of our work. So much so that we introduce all new members of staff to ‘The SkyParlour Way’   We aim to lift our clients above the crowd across all communications channels using our mantra, The SkyParlour Way. Our team use this standard to develop […]

Thursday 5 May 2016

Business Rocks, a new event promoting Manchester as a major hub for technology arrived last month. Manchester is the city where the atom was first split, where Alan Turing conducted pioneering research that heralded the computer age and is now at the very centre of developing ground breaking graphene technology. So, new initiatives to continue […]