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2022 has been a difficult year for cyber security, with many organisations struggling to get to grips with the security challenges of working safely in a decentralised workplace. As the Cyber Security Breaches Survey highlights, 39% of businesses report having cyber security breaches or attacks in the last 12 months.  

More and more organisations are realising the benefits of achieving compliance with an international security standard, and more specifically the ISO27001.It’s a standard that was first released in October 2005sowhy is thisstill relevant today?– It continues to be largely drivenby client requirements, the desire for a competitive advantage or simply wanting to ensure the most robust security practices for the company and its stakeholders. 

UK based telecommunications organisations will need to get their cyber security up to scratch when a new security framework comes into effect this October.

In the world of cyber security, every year seems pretty long.

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The first fines issued under GDPR will hardly become storylines for the next blockbuster movie, however they could make an appearance in a Netflix or Prime original documentary - provided that they’re spiced up a bit. OK - quite a lot.

Does your company have a sizeable budget for paying out fines, compensation and the cost of litigation? If you don’t then you really need to consider the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

GDPR poses numerous challenges for businesses and will require a complete review of policies and procedures, contracts, processing activities and IT to assess compliance.

One of the noticeable trends of this year has been how boards are becoming more closely involved in cybersecurity. It’s being driven by a combination of factors: new rules such as EU GDPR are forcing many organisations to pay closer attention to protecting their information, and the issue is kept top of mind by high-profile data breaches like Yahoo and LinkedIn, or incidents like the largest ever distributed denial of service attacks against Krebsonsecurity and OVH, which took place within a week of each other this Autumn.

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