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Tammy Buchanan

Lettings Best Practice Area

We've launched a lettings best practice area which brings together all privacy considerations around renting out a building or room in your organisation.

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Tammy Buchanan

Protecting your Social Media Accounts

We recently published a series of articles on all things social media, which also included information about protecting your social media accounts.  The South East Cyber Resilience Centre has recently published a blog about this:

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Tammy Buchanan

Cyber Incident Review: The Benefits

A cyber incident review is a process or analysis undertaken after a cyber security incident or cyber attack has occurred.  It involves analysing the event in detail to understand what happened, why it happened and how it can be prevented in the future.

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Tammy Buchanan

Free Cyber help, advice and training with the Cyber Resilience Centres

We have previously written about the Cyber Resilience Centres which are 9 regional centres in the UK which were part of a Home Office initiative to help strengthen the reach of cyber resilience across the community.
We recently met with Daniel Sykes, the Cyber Crime Protect and Prepare Office for the South East Cyber Resilience Centre, to ask
about how their services can help small businesses, schools and multi academy trusts.

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Tammy Buchanan

The Perils of Paper: The Printing Vulnerability

While visiting organisations during our data walks we will have a conversation with you about how printers are used in your organisation, we will discuss access controls and have a look around the print area and any recycling facilities.  Printing can be expensive as the cost of paper and toner has risen, but it can also be costly to your cyber resilience and your data breach security.

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Tammy Buchanan

Product Focus on Checklists : FOI

All of our customers have access to the DPE Knowledge Bank which has a Best Practice Checklist area.  Each checklist is designed to help you walk through all aspects of data protection.

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Tammy Buchanan

Product Focus on Checklists : DPIA

All of our customers have access to the DPE Knowledge Bank which has a Best Practice Checklist area.  Each checklist is designed to help you walk through all aspects of data protection.

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Tammy Buchanan

Cyber attack on a University

During February there have been a number of attacks reported on Universities in the UK.  There were reports of hackers attacking the universities of Cambridge, Manchester and Wolverhampton.  Systems were affected at all sites.  The disruption is the latest reported attack by Anonymous Sudan.  It is thought the attacks are related to the UK's support of Israel in the Gaza conflict.

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Tammy Buchanan

Cyber Attack on a School

The Misbourne School in Great Missenden had to partially shutdown in January due to a cyber attack.  The attack significantly affected its infrastructure and operations.

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  1. Product Focus on Checklists : Redaction
  2. Major cyber-criminal gang Lockbit brought down by UK Law Enforcement
  3. Why Due Diligence is Important: Fake apps
  4. Product Focus on Checklists : CCTV
  5. Product Focus on Checklists : Clear desk
  6. Product Focus on Checklists : Commitment to compliance
  7. Product Focus on Checklists : Photos and video
  8. Product Focus on Checklists : Passwords
  9. Product Focus on Checklists : Information Classification
  10. Safer Internet Day 2024
  11. Kent Councils Data Breach
  12. Free cyber training for staff
  13. DfE Digital Standards Update
  14. The Mother of all Breaches
  15. ClassCharts Possible Data Breach
  16. Where is your data stored?
  17. IAPP looks at AI privacy risks
  18. If you suspect a financial scam .....
  19. Guardians of Privacy: 16. Social Media Checklist
  20. Guardians of Privacy: 15. Navigating Social Media in Educational Settings Summary
  21. Guardians of Privacy: 14. Social Media and Cyber Bullying
  22. Guardians of Privacy: 13. Social Media, Copyright and Intellectual Property
  23. Guardians of Privacy: 12. Social Media and Going Viral
  24. Guardians of Privacy: 11. Staff Social Media Accounts
  25. Guardians of Privacy: 10. Social Media and Cookies
  26. Guardians of Privacy: 9. Social Media and Morality
  27. New Resources for Schools from the ICO
  28. Guardians of Privacy: 8. Social Media Policies
  29. Guardians of Privacy: 7. Social Media Data Retention
  30. Guardians of Privacy: 6. Posting Safely
  31. Guardians of Privacy: 5. Social Media and Consent
  32. Guardians of Privacy: 4. Social Media Access Control
  33. Guardians of Privacy: 3. Social Media Channels
  34. Guardians of Privacy: 2. Law and Regulations
  35. Latest ICO Reprimand. Mr. S. Claus, Chief Executive Officer, North Pole Enterprises
  36. Phishing attacks targeting schools - alert from City of London Police
  37. The ICO reprimands a Multi Academy Trust
  38. Guidance for the use of school email and applying email retention in schools
  39. CISA and UK NCSC Announce Joint Guidelines for Secure AI System Development
  40. Data Protection Tips for Early Years Settings
  41. Children's Privacy around the world is a puzzle
  42. Trust Initial Plan Checklist Update
  43. Update on Advisory for Rhysida Ransomware
  44. Records Management Best Practice Update
  45. The Crime in a Cyber Attack and a Data Breach
  46. What do I need to redact?
  47. NCSC Annual Review is published for 2023
  48. Learning from Data Breaches
  49. Windows 11 security ineffective against attacks on old devices
  50. Trust Initial Plan for Data Protection Compliance (for Multi Academy Trusts)
  51. International Counter Ransomware Initiative 2023 Joint Statement
  52. Google for Education Resources: Helping IT Admins meet DfE digital and technology standards
  53. Top Ten Cyber Security Misconfigurations
  54. Lettings Best Practice and Guidance
  55. ICO Reprimand: company suffered a ransomware attack
  56. The UK Online Safety Bill becomes an Act (Law)
  57. Considerations when migrating to a new MIS
  58. The importance of software updates (PaperCut vulnerability and Rhysida ransomware)
  59. Public bodies and sensitive data
  60. Adding offline bulk training using the Certificates function
  61. Ransomware, extortion and the cyber crime ecosystem
  62. Get a DPE Badge for your website!
  63. ICO: 10 Step guide to sharing information to safeguard children
  64. Cyber Resource: The Cyber Resilience Centre Group
  65. Email and Security: ICO recent guidance
  66. Help after a Cyber Attack/Incident
  67. Social Media Policy
  68. Data Protection and Cyber Security (Inset Day) Training Ideas
  69. Changes to Microsoft Free Licensing for Schools
  70. What to do in the event of a Cyber Attack
  71. Cyber Crime: AI Generated Phishing Attacks
  72. Handling Freedom of Information Requests the right way
  73. Cyber Attack: Exam Boards
  74. VICE SOCIETY - Ransomware attacks on schools
  75. Using Tags if you are a group of organisations in the DPE Knowledge Bank
  76. Where's Harry the Hacker?
  77. Be Cyber Aware: USB Sticks
  78. Cyber Insurance in the Public Sector
  79. Types of Cyber Attacks: DDos Attack (Microsoft DDoS Attack in June)
  80. Cyber Attack: Leytonstone School
  81. The ICO Reprimands a school
  82. Be Cyber Aware: Firewalls
  83. Be Cyber Aware: Cyber attacks and transparency. A no blame culture
  84. Cyber Attack: Dorchester School
  85. Knowledge Bank Role Types: Admin, Staff and Trustee
  86. Types of Cyber Attacks: Password Attacks
  87. Be Cyber Aware: Why regular software updates are important
  88. Cyber Attack: Wiltshire School
  89. Keeping your IT systems safe and secure
  90. Types of Cyber Attacks: DDoS Attacks
  91. Types of Cyber Attacks: Phishing
  92. Types of Cyber Attacks: The Insider Threat
  93. Why your data is profitable to cyber criminals
  94. Using WhatsApp in Schools
  95. The Changes to Data Protection in the UK
  96. Knowledge Bank Updates
  97. Types of malware and how they are linked to data protection
  98. Striking Data Breach
  99. IPR Protection Email Scam
  100. Windows Server 2012 & 2012 R2 Retirement
  101. How to contact us for support, subject access requests, data breaches and FOI's
  102. YouTube breached child protection laws
  103. How a school fought back after a cyberattack
  104. Types of Cyber Attacks - Credential Stuffing
  105. January Cyber update - How Can Schools Help Prevent Cyber Attacks?
  106. Assigning courses to staff using to-dos
  107. How the Record of Processing Can Help You
  108. Information Security Basics: What are VPN's?
  109. What does a Data Protection Officer Do?
  110. Are you ready for a Data Breach?
  111. Carrying out Supplier Due Diligence
  112. How Long Should You Keep Personal Data For?
  113. The Education sector now at highest risk of cyber attacks
  114. How to Assess your Data Security
  115. Schools Blocked from Using Facial Recognition Systems
  116. The Children's Code
  117. B&H FoI: Racist/religious incidents/bullying
  118. Cyber Attacks
  119. Protocol for Setting Up and Delivery of Online Teaching and Learning
  120. Class Dojo International Data Sharing
  121. Model Publication Scheme: Amendments, Improvements and Updates
  122. Child friendly privacy notices
  123. Transparency
  124. Secure file transfer of files using Royal Mail
  125. Emergency contacts and consent
  126. Key elements of a successful DPIA
  127. FOI Publication Schemes
  128. SHARE: Avoid disinformation online
  129. Best Practice for Managing Photos and Video
  130. New Drip Feeds: Recognise and Respond to Subject Access Request
  131. When to contact the Data Protection Officer?
  132. National child measurement programme
  133. Compliance Manager released
  134. Headteacher fined for breach of data protection legislation
  135. Emails – good practice and minimising the risk of a data breach

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