From time to time I am engaged to help organisations in the UK and in the EU make decisions about where their data is stored, how it is accessed, and how to keep things as stable as possible over the next few years. This was a dizzying mess until 2025, and in 2026 there are some big decisions coming. Organisations need as much certainty as they can get for making decisions which are expensive to change in the future. ...
I have been lead implementer of the main security and privacy standards several times each. These can seem intimidating, but properly used they improve security overall, and can help a business run more smoothly. From a pragmatic, business point of view: These standards are about writing down the actual rules of your business relevant to security and privacy, and then writing down how you improve these rules, and recording how well they work. All businesses can benefit from challenging their working habits and practices, and since privacy and security touch most parts of a business, this is an opportunity to review how the business works before something goes wrong. From the point of view of both Computer Science and Information Management Science: ...