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 | Uncategorised
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...
by Rick Marengo | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorised
How do you manage privacy and security for what is essentially a database mostly containing violent people. In many public and private sector operators, it has to be available to several hundred – probably over a thousand – field staff. Only then can your...
by Rick Marengo | Aug 25, 2022 | Audit, Data Retention Policy, FOI, FOI Public Disclosure Log, Reviews and Appeals, SAR
AXLR8 have clients with many years of data in their systems and so have provided tools to clean up their data manually. However, the job has become too large and the volume of information requests and SARs has risen to a point where an automated tool is justified....
by Rick Marengo | Aug 3, 2022 | FOI, FOI Public Disclosure Log
Once FOI (SA) and EIRs are logged (though not SARs and private or sensitive requests), they should be presented on a public website. The main reason for this requirement is transparency. Public authorities differ on whether they must do this and if so, what should be...
