Effective 2 January 2020 The ACCC has indicated, on 14 November 2019, that it does not object to Australia Post’s draft notification proposing increases to Ordinary Small and Large Letters prices, which will increase the Basic Postage Rate from $1.00 … Read More
Hi. Mark here. If you are a customer of mine and I’ve sent you this link, then I highly recommend you take a few minutes to read the following article and take any action appropriate to you. Data breaches are … Read More
Disclaimer; Markis did not complete this work for the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation. At the time of this artical, a job of this nature would have been too massive for our current production equipment. It would have been completed by a … Read More
Interesting story I came across tonight; A woman in Maine, USA receives 500 letters from United Healthcare within five days I work with and process very large, complex databases regularly, and the article had me speculating about how this could … Read More
Ten years I’ve been using a large two state print supplier and unfortunately my current experience is their standards have dropped dramatically in the past three years. This printer phones maybe twice a year asking how they can see more … Read More
Transferring over to the NBN. It has taken a month to transfer over to the NBN; two NBN technician visits, new cable install, new modem and router hardware. Our ISP technician visited yesterday to connect the landlines but unfortunately due … Read More
I take data protection and privacy very seriously. 2019/06/03 Markis implemented Data Erasure Standards to Australian Government Standards; https://markis.com.au/implementation-of-data-erasure-standards-to-australian-government-standards/ 2018/12/03 Markis implemented a custom air-gapped production facilities for minimising and effectively eliminating any hacking and malicious cyber activities for processing, … Read More
Many governments and companies have industry standards for software-based overwriting that removes data from storage devices. From Monday 3rd June, 2019 Markis has implemented Australian Government ICT Security Manual 2014 – Controls as set out by The Australian Cyber Security … Read More
Occasionally, new customers will ask what do I do with their data. In my mind it would be IRRESPONSIBLE for a new customer NOT to ask. It is a fair question and I am always happy to answer it. I … Read More
Picture this: Walking into a production room and saying, “Ok, let’s start a mail out.” Lights switch on, machines switch on, servers and computers boot, software looks for a database and begins processing it, a digital job folder is created, … Read More
