Once again, to mark Data Privacy Day (or Data Protection Day in Europe), we have released a new update to the Data Privacy Periodic Table – our industry-renowned open project to create a regularly-updated digestible guide to the confusing world of data privacy. You can download the latest version of The Data Privacy Periodic Table, here. This is its sixth update, and roughly three and a half years after its launch in September 2018, what have we learned?

2020 was a lot of things. Unexpected. Tough. Frightening. Frantic. It was also revealing. Most CIOs were asked to enable ways of working and doing business that they had not considered necessary before. Others had maybe always known such moves were wise, but had never been able to dedicate the time, resource or budget to such endeavours. Or, ironically, had never been able to prove the business case. Either way, too many were caught under-prepared.

Today Calligo announces it has completed its fourth acquisition of 2020 – and ninth in three years – with the purchase of Network Integrity Services, a UK-wide IT managed services provider specialising in managed IT, cloud and security services with locations in Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester and Hemel Hempstead.

What if all your employees lost access to their data and tools right now? What if every platform you use to communicate with your staff and your customers went down right now? Companies rarely get an advanced warning that a disaster is about to strike. There is no time to prepare, and no time to protect your company from the fallout. That time has passed, and for companies without a business continuity plan, all that is left to do is lament how poorly prepared they were.