Will you
fail to
comply?
GDPR [General Data Protection
Regulation] comes into effect
on May 23rd, and its arrival has
turned the spotlight on how
companies collect, use and protect
their data. Essentially an update
to the Data Protection Act, ALL
organisations, large and small,
will be affected – are YOU prepared?
The amount of data every business holds and
uses varies, but even those who deal solely with
other businesses and handle minimal personally
identifiable information are not immune to either
the upcoming regulation or the reputational damage
and costly business interruption a cyber-attack can bring.
As the deadline looms, businesses are becoming
increasingly concerned at the cost of non-compliance,
particularly as the ICO will have the power to issue fines
in excess of £17m. Now is the perfect time to look at
your cyber security strategy and evaluate your data
management needs.
At razorblue we believe that every good cyber security
strategy should start with an assessment of your specific
circumstances. This is the first step of the ‘IT & Information
Security Circle’, a simple six-stage continual process that
razorblue uses to ensure that both business and technical
risks are discovered, assessed and reduced on every ‘pass’.
At the most basic level, you need to look at the sensitive
data you keep and critically assess it in terms of whether
you need it, whether you are even entitled to keep it, and
how you will process and store it.
At a technical level, data encryption, secure remote access,
and patch management are all key areas to explore. The
Information Commissioner has already levied significant
fines for breaches in all of these areas within the last few
months – many of which were to SMEs.
We offer a Cyber Readiness Health Check that looks at your
current systems and provides you with a clear snapshot of
the effectiveness of your cyber security measures.
Contact us to arrange your Health Check today
t: 0333 344 6 344
e: [email protected]
w: razorblue.com
Our cyber security cycle
Every organisation should expect to be hit by a breach at
some point. Security solutions can and will fail – and efforts
should be made to minimise the impact when it does
happen. Deploy multiple layers of technology to ensure
threats are caught and minimise the chance of human error
by implementing appropriate network segmentation.
razorblue has been helping organisations from different
industries across the North East to meet business IT
challenges since 2006 and is well-placed to offer practical
advice. We own and operate our own network and cloud
environment which al