Staff Awareness Archive
Football world-governing body FIFA has admitted that its systems suffered a sustained phishing hack earlier this year. In March, more than 70 million documents and 3.4 terabytes of data were leaked to the weekly German news magazine Der Spiegel by …
When organisations look to initiate a GDPR compliance programme, the ‘people’ factor is often overlooked. Yet staff awareness and education are key components of any organisation’s GDPR compliance framework. Without an effective staff awareness programme, your organisation runs the risk of breaching the Regulation, which can …
The need for speed Data breaches can have serious financial consequences for organisations of all sizes. The faster a breach can be detected and contained, the lower the costs for the organisation. Having systems in place to help identify and …
The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has fined Heathrow Airport £120,000 for failing to secure sensitive personal data after a member of public found an unencrypted USB stick containing data about the airport’s staff. The data affected: The ICO penalty notice …
Organisations usually spend most of their security budget on technologies intended to keep cyber criminals out of their systems, but this overlooks their biggest vulnerability: human error. More often than not, data breaches are caused by – or directly linked …
Data from Lloyds Bank has revealed a 58% increase in BEC (business email compromise) attacks in the year to date. It is important to note that the “true scale of the problem is likely to be much larger” as this …
Another week, another example of an email using the Cc (carbon copy) field instead of the Bcc (blind carbon copy) field. This time, it was West Ham United Football Club. The email was sent to a group of supporters regarding ticket allocations for an away football match. …
Mid-sized organisations are at the ‘sweet spot’ of cyber security, according to Coalfire’s Penetration Risk Report. Unfortunately, that sweet spot applies to both organisations and cyber criminals in different contexts. After studying the most common vulnerabilities in small, medium and large organisations, Coalfire concluded that …
Data breaches caused by the misuse of email are becoming common, with a lack of appropriate staff training consistently to blame. The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) recently issued a fine of £200,000 to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse …
An organisation’s policies are at the heart of its business operations. They detail exactly how employees should handle certain issues, ensuring that everybody is on the same page and following agreed best practices. Effective policies are all the more important …
