In a world where so much of what we do takes place online, data privacy has become a massive global issue. If your company handles someone’s data, then your company has a responsibility to respect and protect that data. Global privacy laws are being strengthened all the time in order to protect citizen’s rights to […]
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This month we celebrate 8 years of 2|SEC Consulting. To reminisce, I have been looking at some penetration test reports we took on when we started out. Before you wangle the GDPR data retention carrot at me, these reports are of course redacted with information kept for statistical purposes only. What I’m seeing, is that
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The largest fine to date of £500,000 has been charged by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to Equifax for its data breach. The loss of personal data has affected 15 million Britons. The cyber-attack was carried out in 2017 which means it does not come under the more recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However,
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The imminent GDPR is a timely reminder that all organisations should be proactive in their management of their data – both hardcopy and electronic. However, new storage proposition, the explosion of cloud services and creeping growth of shadow IT has meant that organisations are collecting and processing ever larger electronic data sets. At the same
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The deadline for the GDPR is less than 2 months away. On the 25 May 2018 compliance for the new regulations will be expected from all businesses. The ICO is providing regular updates on its website to help businesses. However, whilst many companies are preparing for this, there are still some common concerns that we are
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Preparing for GDPR compliance Webinar date: Thursday 12th April 2018 Webinar time: 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM The 2-sec data protection and privacy team is hosting a webinar on the GDPR to brief on the steps organisations can take with only two months to go. We’ll be covering the latest advice from the ICO
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GDPR surgery: Briefing on the latest guidelines from the ICO 7.30 am to 10.00 am: Thursday 8th February 2018: FREE What’s new, what’s clarified… and what’s changed? AGENDA 7.30 Registration and Breakfast served 8.00 Welcome 8.10 Paul Gribbon, Practice Leader, Data Protection 9 – 9.30 Q&A Session 9.30 – 10.00 Networking To register, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gdpr-surgery-tickets-42420789724
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Luke Vile – our Cyber Security Operations Director has been featured in The Telegraph. He was speaking to Oliver Pickup, Telegraph journalist. The article content is included below. Do staff have too much data access and what should a company do if a breach has been detected? How securely are today’s businesses treating all
A whitepaper by CenturyLink Emea has just reported that only 25% of legal sector IT decision-makers said their firms were GDPR ready, despite one in five having experienced an attempted cyber-attack in the past month. Why is there so much apathy surrounding the GDPR, even though there is only six months to go until the
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