What housing can learn from cloud architecture frameworks Our reliance on technology keeps growing, data has never been more valuable to running our business and the threat from bad actors has never been worse, hence cyber risk now sitting near the top of the list as one of the most concerning problems of our time….
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Infrastructure
Trust, training & cyber security
Phishing simulations are easy; measuring resilience is hard Many security-awareness strategies include internally-initiated phishing simulation campaigns to measure phishing reports and unwise clicks, seemingly to provide security awareness training. Here at Link Group, we believe a mature organisation should ask a more useful question: how effectively do we detect, report and mitigate actual phishing attacks?…
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Is your data ‘cyber ready’?
The data question you can no longer avoid Housing might not be formally classified as ‘critical national infrastructure’ but housing providers do provide services on which millions of people depend. They hold significant quantities of personal and financial information, support vulnerable residents, manage physical assets and increasingly rely on interconnected digital services and complex technology…
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Editor’s Notes – Are you ready for the red carpet?
The Housing Technology Awards 2026/27 are now open for your entries, so if you’re proud of your last project, pleased with your team’s work and/or keen to share your experience and knowledge with your peers, we’d love to receive your entry for our awards (conference.housing-technology.com/awards). We also know from our previous winners and runners-up how…
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Editor’s Notes: This Must Be The Place
After almost 20 years and 112 editions of this magazine, Housing Technology is finally running a geospatial technology-themed event with our launch of Spatial Matters 2026 in November. Given the fundamental importance of ‘place’ to every housing provider’s operations, assets and tenants, Housing Technology has long been bemused by the low adoption of geospatial systems…
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Do this but don’t do that…
Why acceptable use policies fail and how to make them work Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) are a familiar fixture in cyber-security governance. Traditionally, the policies detail ‘do’s and don’ts’ for technology use, often written in formal legal language and tied to regulatory compliance requirements. However, despite being technically thorough, many fail to achieve their ultimate…
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