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Why Cyber Essentials is a good starting point

[fa icon="calendar'] Nov 7, 2019 3:09:44 PM / by Neville Armstrong posted in Security, Ransomeware, incident response, CISO, Security

 

This week the Government launched a review to find out what’s needed to make UK business leaders take cyber security seriously. In our view, a good place to start is the government’s Cyber Essentials scheme, which is based on advice from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ.

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Five steps to enterprise security

[fa icon="calendar'] May 22, 2019 2:51:39 PM / by Caroline Houlden posted in Security, Ransomeware, incident response, CISO, Security, Ransomware, Cloud Security

 

If you were looking for help to improve your business’s cyber security, a good place to start would be the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, whose role is to keep the country secure against cyber attacks. So when they provide free advice, you’d expect most businesses to be rushing to implement it. However, you’d be wrong. The NCSC has developed a security tool to help organisations protect themselves against the most common cyber threats, but although it’s been available for almost five years, less than ten per cent of UK businesses have implemented it.

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