hand holding a mobile phone with social media icons on it. Litus Digital logo and Data Protection Education logo. Guardians of Privacy: Navigating social media in educational settings in blue text.  A series of articles about social media, privacy and schools in black text.  Coloured pencils at the bottom

This article is one of a series written by Data Protection Education in collaboration with Litus Digital, a social media management company.  The articles came about from questions asked by Data Protection Education's customers, our own experience of working in education,  as school governors, parents and data protection professionals.  The articles raise questions about how social media can be used as safely as possible in a school environment,  security consideratio

hand holding a mobile phone with social media icons on it. Litus Digital logo and Data Protection Education logo. Guardians of Privacy: Navigating social media in educational settings in blue text.  A series of articles about social media, privacy and schools in black text.  Coloured pencils at the bottom

This article is one of a series written by Data Protection Education in collaboration with Litus Digital, a social media management company.  The articles came about from questions asked by Data Protection Education's customers, our own experience of working in education,  as school governors, parents and data protection professionals.  The articles raise questions about how social media can be used as safely as possible in a school environment,  security consideratio

hand holding a mobile phone with social media icons on it. Litus Digital logo and Data Protection Education logo. Guardians of Privacy: Navigating social media in educational settings in blue text.  A series of articles about social media, privacy and schools in black text.  Coloured pencils at the bottom

This article is one of a series written by Data Protection Education in collaboration with Litus Digital, a social media management company.  The articles came about from questions asked by Data Protection Education's customers, our own experience of working in education,  as school governors, parents and data protection professionals.  The articles raise questions about how social media can be used as safely as possible in a school environment,  security consideratio

hand holding a mobile phone with social media icons on it. Litus Digital logo and Data Protection Education logo. Guardians of Privacy: Navigating social media in educational settings in blue text.  A series of articles about social media, privacy and schools in black text.  Coloured pencils at the bottom

This article is one of a series written by Data Protection Education in collaboration with Litus Digital, a social media management company.  The articles came about from questions asked by Data Protection Education's customers, our own experience of working in education,  as school governors, parents and data protection professionals.  The articles raise questions about how social media can be used as safely as possible in a school environment,  security consideratio

hand holding a mobile phone with social media icons on it. Litus Digital logo and Data Protection Education logo. Guardians of Privacy: Navigating social media in educational settings in blue text.  A series of articles about social media, privacy and schools in black text.  Coloured pencils at the bottom

This article is one of a series written by Data Protection Education in collaboration with Litus Digital, a social media management company.  The articles came about from questions asked by Data Protection Education's customers, our own experience of working in education,  as school governors, parents and data protection professionals.  The articles raise questions about how social media can be used as safely as possible in a school environment,  security consideratio

Latest ICO Reprimand. Mr. S. Claus, Chief Executive Officer, North Pole Enterprises

REPRIMAND

To: Mr. S. Claus, Chief Executive Officer, North Pole Enterprises

Of: North Pole The Information Commissioner (the Commissioner) issues a reprimand to North Pole Enterprises (‘Santa Claus’) in accordance with Article 58(2)(b) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation in respect of certain alleged infringements of the UK GDPR. 
The reprimand
The Commissioner has decided to issue a reprimand to North Pole Enterprises i

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The City of London Police is warning schools across the UK to be vigilant against phishing attacks targeting school networks. Multiple schools have reported receiving suspicious emails containing malicious attachments that have infected their networks with malware.

Once infected, the school's email systems are used to send malicious attachments to other schools.

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The Data Protection And Digital Information Bill (DPADI)

This article is now obsolete - the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill was not passed in the last parliamentary session.

It might seem like only yesterday that GDPR, as part of the Data Protection Act 2018 became law, but already we have another change in the law coming our way.

This has been slow getting here - a consultation 'Data: a New Direction' was launched by the government on 10 September 2021 and since then, a Bill was introduced,

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The ICO has recently published a reprimand for a multi academy trust.  The reprimand was issued in respect of Articles 5 (1) (f) and 32 (1) (b).  An unauthorised third party utilised compromised credentials to access and encrypt their systems.

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The recent update to the Keeping Children Safe in Education Document obliges schools and colleges in England to “ensure appropriate filters and appropriate monitoring systems are in place and regularly review their effectiveness”.

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The IAPP recently wrote an article about how organisations and lawmakers are striving to protect the online safety of children and teens in today's advance digital environment.  They find themselves working to solve a 'puzzle' that tries to balance varying legal jurisdictions and cultural considerations.

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We have previously reported how the Rhysida Ransomware has focused on attacking the education sector.  Recently the CISA, FBI and MS-ISAC have released a new joint Cyber Security Advisory to disseminate known Rhysida ransomware indicators of compromise, detection methods, tactics, techniques and procedures identified through recent investigations.

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The Governors and Data Best Practice area has been updated with some new content from the Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies.  There is a training video: 'Protecting Yourself and Your School from Cybercrime' and a pdf of the slides from the video. There is input for school governors to highlight the risks presented by cyber crime and the resources and support available to help you improve your organisation's cyber security.

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As a data protection officer we are seeing a rise in the number of cyber attacks on organisations.  We often find that the fact an actual crime has been committed is sometimes overlooked in the panic and need to recover data and get operations back up and running.  According to the National Crime Agency (NCA) cyber crime continues to rise in scale and complexity, affecting essential services, businesses and private individuals.  Cyber crime costs the UK billions of pounds, causes

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The National Cyber Security Centre looks back at it's key developments and highlights over the last year in it's 2023 annual review. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, is the UK’s technical authority for cyber security.

  1. Learning from Data Breaches
  2. Windows 11 security ineffective against attacks on old devices
  3. Trust Initial Plan for Data Protection Compliance (for Multi Academy Trusts)
  4. International Counter Ransomware Initiative 2023 Joint Statement
  5. Google for Education Resources: Helping IT Admins meet DfE digital and technology standards
  6. Resistant Cloud Backups
  7. Top Ten Cyber Security Misconfigurations
  8. Lettings Best Practice and Guidance
  9. ICO Reprimand: company suffered a ransomware attack
  10. The UK Online Safety Bill becomes an Act (Law)
  11. October is Cyber Security Awareness Month: 25. Server Security
  12. Considerations when migrating to a new MIS
  13. The importance of software updates (PaperCut vulnerability and Rhysida ransomware)
  14. Public bodies and sensitive data
  15. Adding offline bulk training using the Certificates function
  16. Ransomware, extortion and the cyber crime ecosystem
  17. ICO: 10 Step guide to sharing information to safeguard children
  18. Schools under Cyber Attack: September 2023
  19. Cyber Resource: The Cyber Resilience Centre Group
  20. Email and Security: ICO recent guidance
  21. Help after a Cyber Attack/Incident
  22. Social Media Policy
  23. Data Protection and Cyber Security (Inset Day) Training Ideas
  24. Changes to Microsoft Free Licensing for Schools
  25. What to do in the event of a Cyber Attack
  26. Cyber Crime: AI Generated Phishing Attacks
  27. Handling Freedom of Information Requests the right way
  28. Cyber Attack: Exam Boards
  29. VICE SOCIETY - Ransomware attacks on schools
  30. Using Tags if you are a group of organisations in the DPE Knowledge Bank
  31. Where's Harry the Hacker?
  32. Be Cyber Aware: USB Sticks
  33. Cyber Insurance in the Public Sector
  34. Types of Cyber Attacks: DDos Attack (Microsoft DDoS Attack in June)
  35. Cyber Attack: Manchester University
  36. Cyber Attack: Leytonstone School
  37. The ICO Reprimands a school
  38. Be Cyber Aware: Firewalls
  39. Subject Access Requests (SARs)
  40. Be Cyber Aware: Cyber attacks and transparency. A no blame culture
  41. Cyber Attack: Dorchester School
  42. Knowledge Bank Role Types: Admin, Staff and Trustee
  43. Types of Cyber Attacks: Password Attacks
  44. Be Cyber Aware: Why regular software updates are important
  45. Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2023
  46. World Password Day - May 4th
  47. Cyber Attack: Wiltshire School
  48. Keeping your IT systems safe and secure
  49. Types of Cyber Attacks: DDoS Attacks
  50. Types of Cyber Attacks: Phishing
  51. Types of Cyber Attacks: The Insider Threat
  52. Why your data is profitable to cyber criminals
  53. Using WhatsApp in Schools
  54. The Changes to Data Protection in the UK
  55. Knowledge Bank Updates
  56. Types of malware and how they are linked to data protection
  57. Striking Data Breach
  58. Windows Server 2012 & 2012 R2 Retirement
  59. How to contact us for support, subject access requests, data breaches and FOI's
  60. YouTube breached child protection laws
  61. How a school fought back after a cyberattack
  62. Types of Cyber Attacks - Credential Stuffing
  63. January Cyber update - How Can Schools Help Prevent Cyber Attacks?
  64. End of Windows 8.1 Support
  65. Assigning courses to staff using to-dos
  66. How the Record of Processing Can Help You
  67. Information Security Basics: What are VPN's?
  68. What does a Data Protection Officer Do?
  69. Are you ready for a Data Breach?
  70. Blog: Best Practice on the Retention of Child Protection Information
  71. Carrying out Supplier Due Diligence
  72. Email and retention periods
  73. How Long Should You Keep Personal Data For?
  74. The Education sector now at highest risk of cyber attacks
  75. How to Assess your Data Security
  76. Schools Blocked from Using Facial Recognition Systems
  77. Sharing this year’s Nativity play online
  78. A quick introduction to the Phishing Simulation tool
  79. The Children's Code
  80. Recording vaccination of staff
  81. B&H FoI: Racist/religious incidents/bullying
  82. Cyber Attacks
  83. Protocol for Setting Up and Delivery of Online Teaching and Learning
  84. Class Dojo International Data Sharing
  85. Model Publication Scheme: Amendments, Improvements and Updates
  86. Child friendly privacy notices
  87. Transparency
  88. Parents and students covertly recording conversations
  89. SAR? ER? FOI?
  90. Secure file transfer of files using Royal Mail
  91. Emergency contacts and consent
  92. Key elements of a successful DPIA
  93. FOI Publication Schemes
  94. SHARE: Avoid disinformation online
  95. Best Practice for Managing Photos and Video
  96. New Drip Feeds: Recognise and Respond to Subject Access Request
  97. When to contact the Data Protection Officer?
  98. National child measurement programme
  99. Make sure DPE is your registered DPO with the ICO
  100. Compliance Manager released
  101. Headteacher fined for breach of data protection legislation
  102. Emails – good practice and minimising the risk of a data breach

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