All computer hardware and operating system vendors are still in the process of fixing the meltdown and spectre flaws.

But what exactly are these flaws and how do they affect your business?

As everybody knows, procuring goods or services (for individuals, large or small organisations) is a vital function which requires some effort, commensurate with the scale of complexity of the purchase.

Apart from email does your business use cloud services?

If so, are you in control of the data and services, and is the data safe and secure?

Are staff taking it upon themselves to sign up for apps that put data in the cloud?

The main purposes of policies and procedures are to protect your business and make it work better.

When they do this well, they are taken for granted.

When people have a problem with them, they tend to complain and refer to them as bureaucracy or ‘red tape’.