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Why we recommend using checklists

Our customers all have access to the checklists in our Knowledge Bank user portal.  We have checklists for all areas of compliance around data protection and cyber security, as well as some practical ones for schools and trusts.  But why are checklists a good tool?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why Due Diligence is Important: Fake apps

We recommend completing due diligence on any third party suppliers that you share personal data with.  We recommend that you do this BEFORE purchasing, installing and using the product to share information.  Our Knowledge Bank platform has a Supplier Due Diligence Best Practice area to help with this and lists many suppliers that we have done some generic risk assessments on.  Ensuring due diligence is part of your procurement process for apps means that someone is less likely to

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  22. Guardians of Privacy: 9. Social Media and Morality
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  24. Guardians of Privacy: 8. Social Media Policies
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  26. Guardians of Privacy: 6. Posting Safely
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  29. Guardians of Privacy: 3. Social Media Channels
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  37. Guidance for the use of school email and applying email retention in schools
  38. CISA and UK NCSC Announce Joint Guidelines for Secure AI System Development
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  43. Records Management Best Practice Update
  44. Governors and Data Best Practice Area Update
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  46. What do I need to redact?
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  51. International Counter Ransomware Initiative 2023 Joint Statement
  52. Google for Education Resources: Helping IT Admins meet DfE digital and technology standards
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  56. ICO Reprimand: company suffered a ransomware attack
  57. The UK Online Safety Bill becomes an Act (Law)
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  59. The importance of software updates (PaperCut vulnerability and Rhysida ransomware)
  60. Public bodies and sensitive data
  61. Adding offline bulk training using the Certificates function
  62. Ransomware, extortion and the cyber crime ecosystem
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  74. Handling Freedom of Information Requests the right way
  75. Cyber Attack: Exam Boards
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  78. Where's Harry the Hacker?
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  80. Cyber Insurance in the Public Sector
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  86. Subject Access Requests (SARs)
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  118. Email and retention periods
  119. How Long Should You Keep Personal Data For?
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  121. How to Assess your Data Security
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  131. Transparency
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  133. SAR? ER? FOI?
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  137. FOI Publication Schemes
  138. SHARE: Avoid disinformation online
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