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www.tenintel.com | June 2019 | Issue 6

How resilient is your organisation?

A recent financial research paper suggested submitting multiple reimbursements for A year has passed since the legislation for
58% of UK small and Medium sized the same thing. The amounts are usually GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018
Enterprises (SMEs) have invested in some little and often, enabling the employee to was officially implemented in the UK.
form of resilience during the past 12 months. subtly fly under the radar.
After an extensive annual audit by the
It is clear from these figures that business The preventative answer is to design and British Assessment Bureau, I am pleased
owners and managers are taking the implement an expenses policy with clearly to confirm our ISO 27001 Information
necessary steps to protect themselves defined guidelines – one that requires Security accreditation has been renewed.
against new challenges – including a dual signature process, questions If your organisation needs increased
Brexit, cashflow problems and financial expenditure and requests original receipts. resilience, whether it be fraud, cyber or
uncertainty. In times of financial difficulty, Using your time wisely during uncertainty data related, then please let us help you.
recession or uncertainty, business owners is a good opportunity to stabilise your
should look to cut costs to help their financial position and review your audits,
company become resilient. One key area processes and expenditure. Keep a keen
to look at is within the organisation itself.
eye out for details or anomalies – in
Expense fraud is the most common type our experience, suspicions of fraud are
of fraud and is a significant threat to a normally well founded.
business.
It has been a year since GDPR officially
Fabricated expenses can often be an easy went into effect – how was your GDPR Neil Miller
way for an employee to get reimbursed journey? Our journey continues daily, CEO, TenIntelligence
for personal purchases, by inflating their and we consistently test our data security neil.miller
mileage, client entertainment costs, or compliance. @tenintel.com

ISO 27001 certification gained by

TenIntelligence for another year

Neil Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Management System (ISMS) for our clients, The company was assessed across several
commended the team’s effort in staff and partners. It is very important we fields including relevant documentation,
maintaining our high standards of practise what we proclaim – I am delighted the scope of our ISMS, business continuity,
excellence and said: ‘‘Confidentiality, by the efforts of all our team.’’ risk assessments and internal procedures,
integrity and the protection of data as well as control checks appropriate to
continues to be of paramount importance our business and service provisions.
to our clients, and our successful re- Compliance will continue to be one of the
certification demonstrates TenIntelligence’s core values of TenIntelligence. We have
commitment to data security. My thanks an integrated compliance programme for
to our compliance team, for coordinating, every process, which continues to provide
implementing and improving our assurance for our clients. TenIntelligence
procedures over the last year.”
always strives for excellence and we are
Richard Bell, Chief Operating Officer, added: currently working towards ISO 9001:2015
‘‘TenIntelligence has a strong commitment Certification that sets out the criteria for
to adopting and enforcing the highest our quality management system and
standards in our Information Security assurance.

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