Mike Donoghue

Mike co-founded Economit in September 2011. Working as a Fractional CIO for Economit’s clients, Mike is very much at the forefront of the business.

A Straightforward Guide to Ambient Computing

By Mike Donoghue

We’re at the start of the ambient computing era. The topic has been floating around since the 1990s, but ambient computing is starting to come to the surface and increase in usage, popularity and awareness. Ambient intelligence has managed to find it’s way into the everyday objects we own. It wants to become a part […]

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Information Commissioner’s Office – Is your Business Registered?

By Mike Donoghue

If you own a business, I’m sure you’re aware of the GDPR legislation back in May 2018, and the concern which became prevalent across all industries – whether the legislation was applicable to them, and what they had to do in order to comply. The problem Today, it seems that most organisations believe that they […]

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Maintaining a Register of Data Processing Activities

By Mike Donoghue

Depending on the size of your business, the GDPR may require you to maintain a register of data processing activities; but what activities should you record and does this apply to you? It can be daunting to know where to start in finding out what GDPR requirements apply to your business; therefore, it can be […]

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Ensuring your Sensitive Data is Safely Removed from Cloud Services

By Mike Donoghue

Cloud services offer solutions to a myriad of business problems, and more businesses of all shapes and sizes are choosing to adopt cloud solutions for its flexibility, efficiency, accessibility and strategic value. Do you want to securely share that sensitive document with a partner organisation; or easily manage your company accounts and payroll? Go ahead […]

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New Clients, Accreditations and Ventures – An Update on what Economit has been up to.

By Mike Donoghue

The last couple of months have been an extremely busy time for Economit in terms of onboarding new clients, obtaining accreditations and delivering a premium service to existing clients. A really profound aspect of this past couple of months is the new data protection regulation (GDPR). I’ve recently become the Virtual DPO to 3 new, […]

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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing

By Mike Donoghue

Cloud computing can be simply described as the action of taking services and moving them outside of an organisation’s local servers or personal devices to access them via the internet. The services are usually used and paid for on an as-needed or pay-per-use basis. The Key Types of Cloud Computing Public Cloud These are owned […]

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