We are hiring again – Data Protection Consultant
Due to market growth and continued expansion, BH Consulting is looking to augment its growing DPO-as-a-service team with a new Data Protection Consultant. The candidate is passionate about data protection and is keen to demonstrate this. The candidate has at least 5 years experience in data protection (or IT data project management with demonstrable interest in Data […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Security Roundup June 2020
Curated advice, guidance, learning and trends in cybersecurity and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. Follow the money: financial motives figure highly in breaches, finds Verizon DBIR Not even a pandemic could stop the publication of the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Widely respected as an independent source of security information, some highlights from […]
Security Roundup June 2020
Infosec eye Curated advice, guidance, learning and trends in security and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. Follow the money: financial motives figure highly in breaches, finds Verizon DBIR Not even a pandemic could stop the publication of the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Widely respected as an independent source of security information, some […]
Are employers protecting personal data as well as health?
For data protection practitioners, the COVID-19 pandemic has created an entirely new set of privacy concerns. Among them are a rapid move to remote working practices, changes in technology needs and increased risks from cybercrime. Now as we move into the phased reopening of the country, the new working practices required have additional data protection […]
Security Roundup May 2020
Cybersecurity trends from across the globe, with an eye on the future of security and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. Works hard for the money: funding concerns for EU data protection regulators Are Europe’s data protection authorities sufficiently well funded to defend themselves in court against the technology industry’s heavy hitters? A report by Brave into regulators’ budgets […]