by Rick Marengo | Nov 24, 2023 | Information Governance, SAR, Uncategorised
If you have to provide one of these Spreadsheets, we have helped a council do so already. So we can provide a short cut for you to fill in those columns with the open SARs at start and end of month. Please contact Support@axlr8.com for a ten minute (discrete) Teams...
by Rick Marengo | Sep 8, 2023 | Audit, Data Retention Policy, Data Sharing Agreements, FOI, Information Governance, IRMS RoI, SAR, Security
AXLR8 MessageStore has been implemented live on client systems for IRMS audit trail for 15 years but the product already evolved and improved in commercial clients beforehand. This article shows the experience we can bring to linking the electronic conversations with...
by Rick Marengo | Sep 4, 2023 | Audit, IRMS RoI
Most would agree with the following for request handling systems the productivity improvements obtainable will depend upon three things. The number of requests (SARS, complaints, enquiries, fault reports, etc.) The time saved answering them The cost of labour/hour All...
by Rick Marengo | Jun 5, 2023 | Uncategorised
Implementing two systems this month and the subject of Exemptions arises. AXLR8 have tacit permission to copy the exemptions from another authority and put them in our model system along with standard documents, bank holidays and IR Types for their jurisdiction. One...
by Rick Marengo | Mar 26, 2023 | Uncategorised
I was contacted on Friday by a customer to inform me that they were changing their old webiste CMS to Drupal and could we help the migration team with the AXLR8 PDL API (the software that allows integration of their public website to the AXLR8 IRMS). That brought back...
by Rick Marengo | Mar 3, 2023 | Uncategorised
Having played with this and researched the products and services available, we can see the opportunities in the long term. Redacting DSARS or any PII removal is a skilled and often very time consuming task. The questions we look at in this article are. How does AI...
by Rick Marengo | Feb 10, 2023 | Uncategorised
I was just checking for dragon attacks on the City of Edinburgh Public Disclosure Log. Thanks to the FOISA (2002) we can confirm these facts before visiting for a city break. This is the link at time of writing but soon we will be moving it to a new delivery...
by Rick Marengo | Jan 28, 2023 | Uncategorised
Delighted to announce we have achieved this year’s much tougher new CE+ standard audit (see more here). AXLR8 Cyber Essentials Plus 2023-2024 Now attending to the latest penetration testing actions updated for this quarter and making sure we keep our client data...
by Rick Marengo | Nov 8, 2022 | Accreditations, Audit, Cyber Security
AXLR8 have passed the new CE certification for November 2022 through November 2023. Pen Testing Now we are commencing Our Pen Testing working with a specialist company who will be working through the process. Cyber Essentials Plus renewal In December we will be...
by Rick Marengo | Oct 2, 2022 | Uncategorised
I sat in on an online meeting of FOI advocates in Scotland last Wednesday (SPIF*). It will certainly inform our product development. Public Disclosure Will this become encouraged or even mandated. Private classes of requests such as SARs and sensitive FOI...
