Information Security
Read our free, impartial online safety advice for your business on information security. Below you will find advice on many topics including backups, data loss prevention and information access management.
Data Breaches / Security Incidents
Your organisation should have a process in place for managing and reporting events or chains of events that compromise the confidentiality, integrity or availability of its information....
Information Risk Assessments
In any aspect of business, it is impossible to safeguard against risks if you do not know what they are. Therefore, prerequisite to an information security strategy, is the preparation of an information risk assessment so that...
Information Access Management
It is vital to manage who has access to which information held by your organisation. This means physically enabling and restricting access to various information, and also having the ability to monitor who is accessing or has...
Data Protection Act
The Data Protection Act (DPA) in the United Kingdom is designed to protect the privacy and integrity of data held on individuals by businesses and other organisations. It ensures that individuals associated with an organisation...
Data Loss Prevention
Preventing your data from loss or falling into the wrong hands should be a key part of your IT strategy … and day-to-day housekeeping. The consequences of such events can include breaches of confidentiality, non-compliance...
Data Encryption
If your confidential data and communications (for example emails) are accessed by individuals or other organisations not authorised to see them, the consequences can be very damaging … fraud, identity theft, espionage and...
Backups
The information held on your computer systems and devices is probably irreplaceable. If it is lost or corrupted as a result of theft, being criminally compromised, physical damage or technical failure, your organisation faces...
