Monthly ArchivesJune 2017 - Storm IT Financial

Best Practices To Manage Hedge Fund Cybersecurity Risks As we’ve seen this week with another world wide ransom cyber security virus attacking corporate firms, cybersecurity is a critical business issue for hedge funds and other investment management firms too. The financial conse- quences of a cyber attack can be significant and could result in a […]

Why Alternative Investment Firms must not take GDPR compliance in the cloud, for granted More and more Alternative Investment Firms are storing data in the cloud and utilising cloud-based services than ever before. But many are failing to ensure that the data is secured or stored in a compliant manner, placing themselves and their investors […]

How Financial Firms can help mitigate the onerous tasks of GDPR responsibilities Most Financial & Alternative Investment Firms are busy making sure they are MiFID II compliant for January 3rd 2018 but Firms should also keep an eye on also complying with the onset of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) due May 2018, as data […]

MiFID II IT & Data Challenges: What Do You Need to Solve? After attending a few compliance & regulatory conferences this week and with delegates live voting polls suggesting 70% of buy side firms are “Getting there” with regards to them identifying but not yet acting on all the require- ments of MiFID II applicable […]

Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution. When do you need it? Alternative Investment Companies, big and small, that rely heavily on IT, should know that backup is not a luxury but a requirement, and having a duel failover solution (something Storm IT Financial advises all its clients on having) is impera- tive as we’ve seen this […]