Entries by digitalpathway

Who is the biggest risk to your company’s Cyber Security?

When an employee doesn’t care about cyber security It doesn’t matter how thorough a business’ protective measures are, employees remain one of the biggest risks to an organisation’s digital security. In some cases, it is not that employees don’t care about digital security, but that they don’t fully understand it. An experiment in London’s financial […]

Do you know if your emails are secure?

Of all the millions of emails sent each day, how many senders even think about whether their messages are secure? Traditional email has the confidentiality level of a postcard – anyone involved in its transport can easily read it. Lack of care becomes even more of a problem when the sender is attaching confidential or […]

When Familiarity Breeds Complacency – How to Identify Authentic Emails

For many, a daily routine exists from the moment they sit at a desktop or take their first swipe of a tablet. It involves identifying important emails in your inbox and disregarding the spam. In most instances, this is a tedious yet simple task. We click on emails from contacts we know, or from an […]

Cybersecurity: What are Insurers Looking For?

Nicola Laver investigates how low firms can satisfy their insurers that their cybersecurity and anti-commercial crime strategies are robust. Given that research has shown that cyberattacks on UK  law firms increased by nearly 20% between 2014-2015 and 2015-2016, robust cybersecurity strategies are vital issues; furthermore, 73% of the top 100 law firms in the UK […]

The Imitation Game: Keeping Safe From Phishing Emails and Websites

A poorly written, plain text email requesting sensitive information arrives in your inbox from a sender you have not interacted with before. Without much thought you delete the email, writing it off as bogus. Further down you come across an email with the subject: Update Your Account Information. In the sender column is your bank’s […]

What Do You Need to Know Before Buying Cyber Insurance?

What do JP Morgan, Sony, eBay, Yahoo, Three, and Talk Talk have in common? In the past two years, these companies have all been victims of cybercrimes and have experienced widespread media attention as a result. An increase in cybercrimes, followed by an increase in media reporting of breached businesses, and moves towards tougher regulatory […]

GDPR: Are You Ready?

Having recently attended Legalex, the UK’s largest legal event for lawyers and law firms, it is clear the sector is not fully prepared for the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) due to come into effect in May 2018. During round table discussions about the preparations firms are making in advance of the GDPR, responses ranged […]

CYBER SECURITY PRIORITIES FOR 2017

Cyber security is generally agreed upon as a protection of electronic information, the ICTs that support cyberspace. It is also protection in a number of spaces including personal, professional, and even national. Sometimes, all three of these can interconnect into a cyber nightmare because one element was vulnerable to being attacked, which in turn had […]

The GDPR and Everyday Breaches

In just 12 months’ time, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect, replacing the UK’s current Data Protection Act. These new regulations will have a significant impact on the way data is managed. The consequences of failing to comply with the GDPR are significant, with fines of up to 4% of […]

Learning from a cyber attack

New research also reveals that two thirds of UK businesses have no official ransomware policy to guide employees in the event of an attack. Organisations must protect and educate their users, says Tankard There are many reasons organisations do not follow the latest software releases but what seems to constantly fail, is the “thought process” […]