ICO Receiving 500 Breach-Related Calls a Week Since GDPR Took Effect

The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been receiving 500 calls pertaining to data breaches since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect.

Speaking before hundreds of senior business leaders at the Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI’s) fourth annual Cyber Security Conference, ICO deputy commissioner James Dipple-Johnstone revealed that of the 500 breach-related calls received weekly by the Office, a third of them aren’t warranted or pertain to events that don’t qualify as data security incidents.

https://securityboulevard.com/2018/09/ico-receiving-500-breach-related-calls-a-week-since-gdpr-took-effect/

Hopefully we are more diligent in Jersey and more thoughtful about what we escalate

The Jersey OIC has good guidance here
https://www.oicjersey.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018.03.13-Guidance-on-Breach-Reporting.pdf

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UK Business Leaders Warned About Cybersecurity - Jersey needs to be prepared too

British business leaders need to extend their cyber security defenses beyond the threat posed by Russia to other states and criminal syndicates, one of the UK’s leading spymasters has warned.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Ciaran Martin, chief executive of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of the communications intelligence agency GCHQ, said that while Russia remained a serious threat to businesses, Iran and North Korea, as well as international cyber criminals, presented equal if not greater risks.

https://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/expert-comments/uk-business-leaders/

Adapt Consulting Company has been working with TechColab and a number of other Cyber Essentials organizations to create a CE Toolkit of tools, templates, training and scripts to apply Cyber Essentials compliance to SMEs and Charity Businesses.

With the States of Jersey now suggesting Cyber Essentials is mandatory, it's a good time to get prepared.

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