What Makes a File Sensitive? How to Identify Risk Before Sharing
A harmless-looking spreadsheet can become sensitive once names, pricing or project details appear. This guide shows how to classify risk before a file leaves your organisation.
Articles by Michael Byrne
How to Handle Subject Access Requests Without Losing Control
A subject access request can expose every untidy corner of a filing process. See how to locate the right data, protect third parties and keep evidence of what was shared.
How to Build a File Audit Trail That Stands Up to Scrutiny
Knowing that a file was sent is rarely enough. A credible audit trail should show who accessed it, what happened next and which details remain available months later.
Secure File Sharing in Education: Protecting Student and Staff Data
Student records pass between teachers, families, support services and outside organisations. Each handoff creates a fresh access question, and email rarely answers it well.
Is Google Drive Putting Your Intellectual Property at Risk?
Google Drive is familiar, quick and easy to share from. Those same qualities deserve closer attention when a folder contains designs, formulas or commercially sensitive work.
Cyber Insurance and File Sharing: Are You Really Covered?
A cyber policy may pay after an incident, but it cannot tidy weak access controls or recreate missing records. This guide looks at the questions insurers may ask about file sharing.
Secure File Infrastructure: What Every CTO Needs to Know
File exchange often grows through exceptions, workarounds and whatever tool was quickest at the time. CTOs need to know where control ends once information leaves the network.
The Future of LegalTech: Secure Document Sharing for Law Firms
Case files can be confidential, urgent and far too large for email. This article examines how LegalTech can make document exchange more controlled without burying lawyers in admin.
Beyond Encryption: Protecting Intellectual Property from Quantum Threats
Encrypted files may be collected today in the hope that future computing can open them. See how separating and anonymising data changes the problem an attacker must solve.
Secure File Transfer Compliance: What Regulators Expect
Regulators rarely stop at the word encrypted. They may ask who received a file, why access was allowed, what evidence remains and whether staff followed a consistent process.