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2020 Is Shaping Up - Badly Six months in and 2020 is on track to set a new data breach record. Healthcare, technology, software, social media and more have all been targeted by cybercriminals, reaping about 16 billion personal records. What’s Going On? It’s partly due to the coronavirus pandemic which gave cybercriminals new ways to mask threats. Phishing scams and social engineering were the most common threats. Online dating Online dating apps always seem to be built with security as an after thought, nothing like the security by design principle we’re all supposed to be adopting.

ICO Enforcements in the First Half of 2020

By Dave McKay in compliance

July 11, 2020

ICO Enforcements in the First Six Months of 2020 The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued the following fines in the first half of 2020. Interestingly, two of them were against individuals, not businesses. Two of the fines issued to businesses were for one half of a million pounds. Ouch. Decision Technologies Limited 2nd July Price comparison and technology company fined £90,000 for a contravention of Regulation 22 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

What Is Cyber Essentials?

By Dave McKay in cybersecurity

July 11, 2020

Demonstrate Your Commitment to Data Protection CyberEssentials is a government-backed and industry-recognised scheme. It helps businesses protect themselves against the most common cyber attacks and threats. Compliance to the standard ensures that a set of basic technical and organisational controls—that’s policies and procedures—are in place, providing a common sense and valuable level of protection. The National Cyber Security Centre manage the scheme on behalf of the government. What Is Involved?

A searchable copy of the GDPR

By Dave McKay in compliance

July 10, 2020

An Online, Searchable Version of GDPR The GDPR regulation can be impenetrable, off-putting, and downright intimidating. It’s 88 pages long … There are 11 chapters … There’s 99 articles scattered through those chapters … And there’s 173 recitals that you have to wrestle with too! Thankfully, Intersoft Consulting have put together an online, searchable and free copy of the GDPR regulations. You can search by word or phrase like “legitimate interest”, or by section name like “article 14”.

2020 Set to Break Records for Data Breaches

ICO Enforcements in the First Half of 2020

What Is Cyber Essentials?

A searchable copy of the GDPR

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