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Our expert consultants at Handley Gill share their knowledge and advice on emerging data protection, privacy, content regulation, reputation management, cyber security, and information access issues in our blog.

Posts tagged Cyber Resilience
Security stimulus

New guidance on good industry practice for directors issued by the Institute of Directors obliges directors and boards to identify and mitigate information and cyber security risks, and to prioritise business resilience, bringing a renewed focus to cyber resilience and supply chain security.    

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Cyber Security Awareness Month 2024

This Cyber Security Awareness Month, Handley Gill’s specialist consultants identify steps you can take to improve your organisation’s cyber resilience and highlight relevant content and free resources to support you to make Cyber Month 2024 your most secure yet.

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Security guaranteed?

To coincide with London Tech Week 2024, one of the key themes of which is ‘The Future of Security and Data’, and following the revelation in the DSIT Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024 that few organisations are conducting supply chain risk assessments, Handley Gill’s specialist consultants have published their Helping Hand checklist on conducting data processor / supply chain information security risk assessments which is informed by NCSC guidance.

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Washed-up or fallen down the plughole?

Following the announcement on 22 May 2024 of the snap General Election to take place on 04 July 2024, Parliament has been prorogued with effect from 24 May 2024 (meaning Parliamentary business is suspended thereafter) and will be dissolved with effect from 30 May 2024. The brief period between the announcement of the election and prorogation is known as wash up, when political parties must negotiate to pass outstanding Bills, or parts of them, or Bills fall. Prorogation also bring an end to the work of the various Parliamentary Committees. Handley Gill’s consultants consider which Bills have been washed up and which have fallen in the context of cyber security, data protection, online safety, artificial intelligence (AI), digital markets, content regulation, reputation management, open justice, access to information, human rights and ESG, as well as the work of Parliamentary Committees which were either rushed out or dropped.

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Licence to hack?

Home Office Minister Lord Sharpe has confirmed that, following intensive lobbying by pockets of the cyber security industry, the government intends to pursue the introduction of a statutory public interest defence to the offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (‘CMA’). Handley Gill Limited’s consultants consider the implications for cyber resilience, the protection of personal data and IP, and the ability of law enforcement to prosecute offences.

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CrapITa

Handley Gill’s data protection consultants consider recent supply chain cyber attacks, including the unfolding of the recent Capita and Zellis / MOVEit data breaches, and identify the steps data controllers should take when engaging data processors as part of their supply chain or giving third parties access to personal data, and the lessons to be learned for vendor management throughout the data processing lifecycle.

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On Hand April 2023

April 2023 edition of Handley Gill’s monthly digital newsletter, with all the latest developments in data protection (UK, EU and global), cyber security, AI and machine learning, content regulation, open justice, access to information, reputation management and digital markets regulation. Presented in a readily digestible digital format, those who prefer the traditional newsletter format can export the newsletter to pdf.

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On Hand March 2023

March 2023 edition of Handley Gill’s monthly digital newsletter, with all the latest developments in data protection, cyber security, AI and machine learning, content regulation, access to information and reputation management. Presented in a readily digestible digital format, those who prefer the traditional newsletter format can export the newsletter to pdf.

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What's missing from the Computer Misuse Act 1990?

Handley Gill Limited’s consultants respond to the Home Office consultation on proposals to revise the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to introduce additional powers for law enforcement bodies to takedown and seize domains and IP addresses and, require the preservation of data, as well as to introduce new offences and stronger sentencing for the copying of data. We also call for stronger cyber resilience legislation, through the introduction of minimum cyber security standards, while rejecting lobbying efforts for a blanket public interest defence to CMA offences. Finally, we advocate for stronger extra-territoriality of CMA offences and stronger sentencing powers and associated guidance.

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Too Many Phish in the Sea!

DCMS has recently published its Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2022, based on data gathered by IPSOS MORI over winter 2021/22, which reveals that businesses and charities continue to be under prepared to respond to inevitable cyber security incidents and data breaches.

In this post, we highlight some of the key findings of the survey and identify advice, guidance and free solutions to common cyber resilience shortcomings.

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