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.

#DPPC24

If you couldn’t make it to the Information Commissioner's Office's (ICO's) Data Protection Practitioners' Conference 2024 (DPPC24), missed a session, were double-booked, couldn’t choose or want to delve deeper into the issues raised by any of the following sessions, Handley Gill's specialist data protection consultants highlight our related content.

Duty free?

Handley Gill Limited calls on the Institute of Directors to amend its proposed voluntary Code of Conduct for Directors of UK companies to reflect risk management as a core tenet of responsible business and to promote business resilience across supply chains, to help UK plc win the war on cyber crime and safeguard the UK’s people, property and prosperity.

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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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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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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