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Survey: 37% of workers unaware of ransomware, putting businesses at risk
Almost 40% of employees surveyed admitted to not knowing what ransomware is, and many of them have already been victims, according to security provider Kaspersky. Read via TechRepublic.
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Marriott confirms data breach impacting up to 5.2 million people
The company has notified guests whose information was compromised in the incident Read via Computing.
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Cybercrime in the pandemic
From Advent IM MD, Mike Gillespie. In a few short months the words ‘terrorism’, ‘conflict’ and ‘war’ have all but disappeared from our news programming. ‘Pandemic’, ‘coronavirus’ and COVID-19...
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The Security Event
Mike and Ellie will be speaking and panel hosting at this event.
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IFSEC International
Ellie will be speaking in the Tavcom Training theatre at IFSEC 2020. Get your free ticket via the link.
*PLEASE NOTE* IFSEC is now rescheduled to take place 8-10th September 2020.
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Police SIRO training
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Public Sector SIRO Training
Public Sector SIRO open training course
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Public Sector SIRO Training
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“Thank you for removing the noise from our GDPR preparations. Throughout the short course you made complex information very accessible, giving interesting real life examples which enabled us to better understand the concepts and our obligations. I was pleased you took a common sense approach to unpicking GDPR as other suppliers we had previously spoken to had made us feel quite anxious about the whole thing!”
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