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Tammy Buchanan

School Focus: The Vale Federation | Aylesbury

The Vale Federation is made up of two special schools, Booker Park and Stocklake Park who have worked with Data Protection Education for a number of years on compliance and data protection. They are based in Aylesbury and are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

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Tammy Buchanan

DfE Dealing with Subject Access Requests (SARs) Guidance

The DfE have recently published updates to their Data Protection toolkit.  Previously there had been very little guidance in the toolkit about how to respond to Subject Access Requests.  There is now a specific section on this and an extra update about responding to other data rights requests such as changing, deleting or restricting of personal information.

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

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