Sophie Meunier Archive
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) outlines six data protection principles that organisations need to follow when collecting, processing and storing individuals’ personal data. The data controller is responsible for meeting the principles and must be able to demonstrate the …
There’s a reason that phishing attacks are so successful. Millions of malicious messages are sent every day, vast numbers pass through spam filters and at first glance many of them appear genuine. Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report found that …
At IT Governance Europe, we believe that an ISO 27001 qualification is something that every cyber security professional should have. As such, we’ve made our ISO 27001 courses available in classrooms, online and in-house. These courses have been designed to …
A breach will happen, and you’ll need a plan in order to mitigate the damage and meet your compliance requirements. In this blog, we explain everything you need to know about managing data breach response.
The GDPR’s strict requirements for protecting personal data have been widely publicised – as has the power it gives to supervisory authorities to levy large fines against non-compliant organisations. However, we understand that implementing its requirements has been tough; you …
Documenting your GDPR compliance can be tough, but a little guidance and access to documentation templates can make things much easier.
Risk assessments play an essential role in information security, as they are the primary way organisations identify vulnerabilities and the ways data breaches can occur. The results of the risk assessment dictate defence strategies and are used by senior staff …
More than 6 million data records are compromised every day, and it would be foolish to think your organisation isn’t at risk of contributing to that figure. Cyber criminals look for vulnerabilities wherever they can find them, and you can …
Everyone is a potential victim, and sometimes you can have all the right defences in place and still be breached. But if you accept the inevitable, there’s a lot you can do to mitigate the damage. In the past few …
If you look someone up on Facebook or LinkedIn, you’ll be able to gather huge amounts of information about them without them ever knowing. Until recently, nobody seemed to think about the risks involved; it was just the way things …
