When Brexit came into effect on January 1, 2021, it also affected the protection and transfer of data between the UK and the EU. If up until the end of 2020, data protection within the UK was regulated by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), then as of this year, adhering to the regulation is no longer mandatory for the UK.
Black Book Market Research in 2019 revealed that over 93% of healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach since Q3 2016.
In their recently published security bulletin, Kaspersky predicts that next year will see an increase in attacks against the fields of medicine and pharmaceuticals. This will force healthcare organisations across the world to contribute to security much more, especially in the UK which is among the first countries in the world to have just started with vaccinations.
There are a multitude of tasks to complete when migrating to the cloud but the benefits for cost saving and time are significant when properly optimised. There are three important steps to consider when migrating to the cloud. 1: plan & prepare, 2: choosing your cloud environment and 3: migrating your data & applications.
For some employees, remote working can be the most convenient thing of all, while for others, it is a terrible torture. But one thing is for sure – it is a lot more insecure than working in the office for everyone.
Although the importance of cybersecurity has been talked about more and more, then it is important to note that the most hideous incidents that reach public awareness via media still only form just the tip of the iceberg. Cyberattacks are showing strong signs of a constant growth trend and have become a daily part of the increasingly more laborious jobs of IT systems managers.
ADM Interactive has supported diversity since its founding. That means that for over 20 years now, we have given priority consideration to people and their characteristics in everything we do. We have always supported diversity because we are convinced that it is an important factor in increasing employee satisfaction. And if our employees see that we actually care about them, then they are more motivated in turn.
The Estonian Defence Forces Defence Hackathon 2020 saw participants working to create exciting solutions in 48 hours, all with the same goal – to increase Estonia’s defence capabilities. MedKiosk was chosen as the winner from among the 11 participating teams. Additionally, one team will also be able to finalise their idea at ADM’s monthly Big Friday event.
For the third year in a row, ADM Cloudtech won the British government’s cloud services framework procurement in all categories and was once again added to the national database, which enables the Estonian company to bid for the UK’s national cloud service procurements via a simple, automated process in the future.
Over 100 different people work at ADM Group, each with their own unique background and different characteristics. For us, it is important that our employees are happy and that the cooperation between us goes smoothly, without any obstacles, as this is the only way for us to create truly smart solutions. One important prerequisite for this is diversity.
According to Estonian Founders Society, the startup sector is growing at a rate of at least 20% per year. Right now, according to the data available, around 5000 people are working in this sector and we will need an additional 1000 new experts a year on top of the existing growth.
Market researcher Synergy Research Group released its results for Q1 2020, which show that public cloud infrastructure vendors gained the most from the start of the year.
ADM Cloudtech joined MSPAlliance, an international consortium that brings together cloud computing businesses and managed service providers. Joining the consortium helps solidify ADM Cloudtech’s position in every country where the company is actively operating.
There are three main reasons why online services and online stores cannot manage sudden traffic spikes.
One of the main problems that arises with having to work from home is a lack of computers to work with. Most of the time, companies try to resolve this issue by allowing their employees to work from their home computers, hoping that they will be able to get the job done with those. Alternatively, the company will purchase a huge number of laptops as quickly as possible and set those up according to the company’s requirements.
When work and entertainment all move online, then it not only puts people’s patience to the test, but also technology. When children had to start online schoolwork and parents remote work on Monday, then it became clear quite quickly that the creators of existing systems were not prepared for such a sudden load increase. Since the virus is affecting all countries, then not even the biggest service providers were safe – not only was eKool in Estonia experiencing technical difficulties for a short while, but even Microsoft’s teamwork solution Teams and its messaging platform were affected.
Amazon’s cloud service AWS selected ADM Cloudtech to join their Public Sector Partner Program, which is the next step in Cloudtech’s strategic plan of offering a wider selection of services to the public sectors in Estonia, the UK, Germany and other European Union countries.
“Data is one of our most valuable possessions and people should treat protecting it much more seriously than they do right now. And companies who do not take it seriously must start honestly admitting what they do with the data they collect,” said the CEO of ADM Cloudtech, Klemens Arro.
In the beginning of December, Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference took place in Las Vegas. At the event, more than 77 new products, services and functionalities were introduced. This meant a lot of news on topics such as security, artificial intelligence as well as quantum computers. ADM Cloudtech’s CEO Klemens Arro picked out eight new services introduced at re:Invent 2019 that he believes are especially important.
Today, the Estonian Human Rights Centre introduced its brand-new Human Rights Report, which supplies an overview of the state of human rights issues in Estonia in 2018-2019. The compilation and publication of the report was sponsored by ADM Group, Swedbank and private donors.