GDPR Compliance

Articles, guides and tutorials on GDPR compliance, covering data protection requirements, technical controls and legal obligations.

Fintech Software Development UK: FCA, Rails and Cost

Fintech software development is priced and scheduled like ordinary software development right up until somebody asks who is authorised to hold the money. At that point the project stops being an engineering exercise and becomes a regulatory one with an engineering component, and the timeline you had in mind stops being...

Healthcare Software Development UK: Compliance and Cost

Healthcare software development in the UK costs more and takes longer than equivalent work in any other sector, and the reason is not that the code is harder. It is that a substantial portion of the budget goes on evidence rather than features: clinical risk documentation, information governance, and assurance...

Cyber Essentials Compliance: A UK Vetting Guide 2026

Securing Cyber Essentials compliance is a major step for UK businesses looking to protect their server networks in 2026. This government-backed scheme helps companies demonstrate their commitment to data security to public sector buyers and enterprise clients, and maintaining these baselines blocks up to eighty percent...

GDPR Technical Compliance for UK Developers in 2026

ICO enforcement action against UK organisations rose sharply in 2024 and 2025, with fines totalling over £12 million across the two years for failures in technical security measures. The pattern in ICO enforcement notices is consistent: organisations that suffered a breach and could not demonstrate that they had...

Website Security Audit Guide for UK Businesses in 2026

A website security audit is a structured assessment that identifies vulnerabilities in your web presence before an attacker finds and exploits them. For UK businesses in 2026, this is not a theoretical concern. The DSIT/NCSC Cyber Security Breaches Survey reported that over 50% of medium-sized UK businesses experienced...