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.
Read MoreTo 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.
Read MoreHandley 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.
Read MoreDCMS 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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