As more housing providers migrate to the cloud, they’re gaining access to a wealth of tools and services that should benefit both their tenants and their businesses. However, when moving to the cloud, any organisation must overcome a few initial challenges that they might not have faced using a traditional IT set-up, and these hurdles…
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Infrastructure
Spotting the signals of an impending cyber-breach
It’s hard to know what’s more challenging for housing providers these days – coping with the increase in the scale and complexity of cyber threats or managing the security tools to contain them and the noise they create. From talking to Sophos’s numerous housing clients, it’s clear that their IT environments are as complex and…
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Poplar HARCA’s validation of Aico environmental sensors
Poplar HARCA knew it needed to make its residents’ homes safer, greener and healthier, and it was also looking for better ways to manage its housing portfolio. The beginning – Tech, meet human ingenuity It all started when Peter Marcus, Poplar HARCA’s assistant director of research, development and transformation, wanted to prove that the air-conditioning…
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Making the most of your Microsoft platform
At the Housing Technology 2023 conference, we discussed how housing providers are embracing Microsoft technologies to future-proof their organisations, using examples from our own customers because we knew that the results spoke for themselves. Whether you are streamlining the processing of landlord certificates, automating your authorisation-to-recruit process or improving your mobile working, there is a…
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Data-led security at Notting Hill Genesis
In today’s hyper-connected world, with multi-faceted cloud services operating in a private, public or hybrid ecosystem, network appliances such as firewalls, routers, switches and other similar devices have become an essential part of our IT environment. They help us stay connected, protected and efficient but at the same time, they generate an enormous amount of…
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South Ayrshire Council takes on Egress Prevent & Defend
South Ayrshire Council is now using Egress Prevent and Egress Defend to improve security, cut costs and remove complexity from its tenant-facing operations and services. In order to deal with the sensitive personal and financial information it holds on its tenants, the council wanted to have a secure network completely separate from its main corporate…
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