Security Roundup October 2020
Curated advice, guidance, learning and trends in cybersecurity and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. DPC to Facebook: drop data transfers to the US Our first story has major implications for all companies transferring personal data about EU data subjects to the US. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner has ordered Facebook to stop sending European user data to […]
Hiring – Head of Practice – Cyber Security Consulting
Head of Practice – Cyber Security Consulting It’s such good news when an organisation continues to expand during these peculiar times! Having extended our Cybersecurity consulting practice over the last two years, the BH Consulting leadership team now seek a Head of Practice (Cyber Security). If you feel you might be the person for the […]
Cyber Governance in a fast-changing world: details on our upcoming webinar
“When the facts change, I change my mind,” the economist John Maynard Keynes reportedly said. The same is true of governance: when rules change, the processes for following them need to evolve. A webinar from BH Consulting and Certification Europe this month will explore cyber governance in depth. The two-hour webinar will take place at […]
Advice and tips for European Cybersecurity Month
It’s not news to say that 2020 has changed many things; security has felt the impact too. So it’s not surprising that the theme for European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM) reflects the times we live in. This year’s awareness campaign focuses on avoiding online scams and threats that could put our money or data at risk. […]
Security Roundup September 2020
Curated advice, guidance, learning and trends in cybersecurity and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. Smishing impossible or gone vishing: new campaigns do the trick for fraudsters It’s time to update the awareness training jargon buster: two new social engineering threats, vishing and smishing, have been rising. Vishing, also known as voice phishing or phone […]
Security Roundup August 2020
Curated advice, guidance, learning and trends in cybersecurity and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. EU Court dismantles Privacy Shield: what’s next for EU-US data sharing? No doubting the summer’s big data protection news: the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has invalidated Privacy Shield, the EU-US data sharing mechanism. Following the legal case dubbed ‘Schrems […]
Celebrating No More Ransom: four years of fighting back against ransomware
Sometimes, the good guys fight back. As ransomware attacks increased over the past decade, law enforcement and the security industry joined forces to tackle the threat. Today, 27 July, marks the fourth anniversary of that collaboration, No More Ransom. No More Ransom launched in July 2016 as a joint initiative of the Dutch National Police, […]
Today’s ECJ Privacy Shield ruling
Today, July 16, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the agreement to allow data transfer between the EU and the United States, known as Privacy Shield, is no longer valid. Under Privacy Shield, US intelligence services had access to this data for national security reasons but the EJC’s decision has struck out the […]
Security Roundup July 2020
Curated advice, guidance, learning and trends in cybersecurity and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. Summer school scheme for security hopefuls tackles skills shortfall Hiring people into security roles has always been a challenge. Internship offers – often a well-trodden path into the security industry – have dried up due to the restrictions stemming from […]
Five data protection steps for life after Brexit
You’d be forgiven for thinking Covid-19 had cancelled Brexit given the lack of attention it’s got in recent weeks. No news is good news, or so they say. However the EU/UK cogs are slowly turning back to full steam ahead in negotiating a deal. The transitional arrangement, which has the UK out politically but still […]