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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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Tammy Buchanan

Major cyber-criminal gang Lockbit brought down by UK Law Enforcement

The NCA (National Crime Agency) has infiltrated systems belonging to LockBit - the UK has led an operation to disrupt what is thought to be the world's largest criminal ransomware group.  For the last four years, the LockBit group has been hacking into thousands of businesses, schools and medical facilities around the world.

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

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