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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 Security
Security stimulus
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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Nicola CainCyber Security, Information Security, Cyber Security Risk Assessment, Information Security Risk Assessment, Cyber Resilience, Business Resilience, Technical & Organisational Measures, Supply Chain Risk, Supply Chain Security, Directors' Duties, Institute of Directors, Code of Conduct for Directors, GDPR, UK GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Article 25 GDPR, Article 25 UK GDPR, Article 32 UK GDPR, Article 32 GDPR, IoDComment
Cyber Security Awareness Month 2024
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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Nicola CainCyber Security, Cyber Resilience, Information Security, Cyber Month, Cyber Month 2024, #CyberMonth2024, Cyber Security Awareness Month, Cyber Security Awareness Month 2024Comment
Holiday packing list
Holiday packing list

With the summer holiday season in full swing, Handley Gill Limited’s specialist data protection and cyber resilience consultants consider the data protection and information security risks of staff taking data and devices used for business purposes overseas and the practical measures that organisations can take to safeguard data subject to border control powers.

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Nicola CainData Protection, PERSONAL DATA, UK GDPR, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, DATA PROTECTION ACT 2018, Cyber Security, Information Security, Data Controller, Data Processor, Overseas Travel, Data Transfer, Personal Data Transfer, Personal Data Export, Data Security, Border Control, Schedule 7 Terrorism Act 2000, Section 78(2) Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, Search, Seizure, Password protection, Encryption, Confidential Information, Confidentiality, Privacy, Digital PrivacyComment
Off the rails?
Off the rails?

Handley Gill Limited’s specialist data protection and ESG consultants consider the results of the Information Commissioner’s Office’s Cyber Security Incident Trends Report for Q1 2024 and the implications for Sir Keir Starmer’s new Labour government, calling for a greater understanding of and focus on cyber and information risk management by directors and trustees.

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Nicola CainCyber Security, Data Protection, Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024, Department for Science Innovation and Technology, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, Cyber Attack, Data Breach, Data Breaches, Data Breach Statistics, Data Security Incident Trends Report, National Cyber Security Strategy 2022, Directors' Duties, ESGComment
Security guaranteed?
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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Nicola CainData Protection, Personal Data, UK GDPR, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, Information Security, Cyber Security, Information Security Risk Assessment, Cyber Security Risk Assessment, Cyber Attack, Cyber Incident, Data Breach, Data Controller, Data Processor, Article 28 UK GDPR, Article 28 GDPR, Article 28(1) UK GDPR, Article 28(1) GDPR, Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024, Department for Science Innovation & Technology, National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC, Supply Chain Risk, Supply Chain Security, Vendor Management, Supplier Management, ICO, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, Data Security Incident Trends Report, London Tech Week 2024, LTW, LTW 2024, The Future of Security and Data, Cyber Resilience, Online HarmsComment
Washed-up or fallen down the plughole?
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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Nicola CainGeneral Election 2024, GE2024, Data Protection, Personal Data, Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Media Bill, Media Act 2024, Digital Markets Competition & Consumers Bill, Digital Markets Competition & Consumers Act 2024, Human Rights, Duty of Candour, Joint Committee on Human Rights, Education Committee, Commons Education Committee, Screentime impact on education & wellbeing, Science Innovation & Technology Committee, House of Commons Science Innovation & Technology Committee, Artificial Intelligence, AI, AI Governance, Governance of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill, SLAPPs, Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill, Criminal Justice Bill, European Affairs Committee, UK-EU Data Adequacy, Adequacy Decision, Cyber Security, Information Security, Cyber Resilience, Cyber resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructure (CNI), Commons Women & Equalities Committee, Non-consensual intimate image abuse, Revenge porn, Online Safety, Online Harms, DPDI Bill, OFCOM, Competition and Markets Authority, CMA, Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation, Data Protection Reform, UK GDPR, Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, Article 17 UK GDPR, Article 17 GDPR, Right to Erasure, Right to be ForgottenComment
Breach? Don’t preach! Take some good advice!
Breach? Don’t preach! Take some good advice!

Has a cyber incident got you in an awful mess and you don’t mean maybe? What if a data breach leaves you in trouble deep? From the hacker they warned you all about? You need some good advice… and an incident response plan!

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Nicola CainCyber Security, Information Security, Cyber Incident, Cyber Attack, Data Protection, Personal Data, UK GDPR, DATA PROTECTION ACT 2018, Article 33 UK GDPR, Article 34 UK GDPR, Article 33 GDPR, Article 34 GDPR, Incident Response Plan, Breach Response Plan, Data Breach, Data Breach Reporting, Data Breach Response, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, Data Security Incident Trends Report, Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024, Cyber Breaches Survey 2024, Cyber Insurance, Department for Science Innovation & Technology, DSITComment
AI regulation in the UK: in out in out shake it all about
AI regulation in the UK: in out in out shake it all about

Handley Gill’s consultants analyse the Government’s response to its consultation on the White Paper ‘A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation’, published on 06 February 2024, and its implications for AI developers and UK creators, business and the public, identifying the steps the Government has committed to take.

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Nicola CainAI, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill, A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation, Department for Science Innovation & Technology, AI Governance, AI Regulation, AI Risk, AI Risk Assessment, AI Safety, EU AI Act, AI Act, AI Regulation White Paper, House of Lords Communications & Digital Committee, Large Language Models & Generative AI, Large Language Models, LLMs, Generative AI, Ofcom, Information Commissioner's Office, Information Commissioner, ICO, EHRC, Equality and Human Rights Commission, CMA, Competition & Markets Authority, Digital Markets Competition & Consumers Bill, Data Protection & Digital Information Bill, DPDI Bill, Data Protection, Discrimination, Bias, Cyber Security, Ofsted, Office for Product Safety & Standards, AI Regulatory Principles, 5 AI Regulatory Principles, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, CDEI, Responsible Technology Adoption Unit, Employment Law, HR, Human Resources, Recruitment, Automated Processing, Automated Decision Making, Safety Security & Robustness, Appropriate transparency and explainability, Fairness, Accountability & Governance, Contestability and redress, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights, IPR, Misinformation, Disinformation, Online Safety Act 2023, AI Management Essentials Scheme, AI Security, AI Safety Institute, Human Rights, Human Rights Act 1998Comment
AI acceleration
AI acceleration

Handley Gill’s specialist AI and data protection consultants summarise the House of Lords’ Communications and Digital Committee’s report on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, which calls on the government to act at pace to address the real and immediate risks posed by artificial intelligence.

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Nicola CainAI, Artificial Intelligence, House of Lords Communications & Digital Committee, A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation, Large Language Models & Generative AI, Report on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, AI Regulation, AI Risk, Competition, AI Safety, AI Safety Summit, AI Training Data, AI Training, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, AI Risk Assessment, AI Risk Assessment Framework, AI Safeguards, AI Guardrails, AI Governance, Discrimination, Bias, AI Liability, Cyber Security, Counter Terrorism, CSAM, CSAE, Disinformation, Misinformation, AI Standards, AI AuditComment
On Hand July 2023
On Hand July 2023

July 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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Nicola CainData Protection, PERSONAL DATA, UK GDPR, UK GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Cyber Security, CONTENT REGULATION, Content Moderation, Reputation Management, Libel, Slander, Open Justice, Malicious Falsehood, Misuse of Private Information, Privacy, Data Privacy, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Markets Regulation, Access to Information, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Adequacy Decision, US Adequacy Decision, EU-US Data Privacy Framework, Trans-Atlantic EU-US Data Privacy Framework, Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, Freedom of Expression, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech, Information Commissioner, Special Purposes, Special Purposes Processing, Journalism, Journalism Code, Journalism Exemption, Data protection and journalism code, Facial Recognition, Right to be Forgotten, CBPR Form, Global Cross Border Privacy Rules Forum, Pornography, Surveillance, Biometrics Commissioner, Surveillance Camera Commissioner, Digital Markets Act, Data Subject Rights, DATA SUBJECT ACCESS REQUEST, DSAR, SAR, Retained EU Law, Human Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, Article 8 European Convention on Human Rights, Article 10 European Convention on Human RightsComment
Licence to hack?
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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Nicola CainCyber Security, Cyber Resilience, Hack, Hacking, Computer Misuse Act 1990, CMA, CMA 1990, CMA offence, Home Office, Lord Sharpe, Lord Clement-Jones, Sir Patrick Vallance, Pro-Innovation Regulation for Digital Technologies Review, Data extraction, Public Interest, Public Interest Defence, Computer Misuse Act 1990 Call for Information, Computer Misuse Act 1990 Consultation, CMA working group, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, CFAA, Department of Justice, US DoJ, Good-faith security activity, Legitimate cyber security activity, Section 170 Data Protection Act 2018, s.170 Data Protection Act 2018, S.170(2)(c) Data Protection Act 2018, S.170 DPA 2018, Unlawful obtaining of personal data, Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 107 Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, S.107 Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988, S.107 CDPA 1988, Copyright, Consultation Response, Statutory defence, Hansard Volume 831 Column 993 03 July 2023, Computer Misuse Act 1990 defence, CMA defenceComment