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Cyber optics: ICO and NCA sign collaborative memorandum to improve the UK’s cyber resilience On 10 September 2024, the ICO announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Crime Agency (“NCA”). The joint statement of intent sets out how the regulators will cooperate and work constructively with one another in relation to th...

New Cyber Security and Resilience Bill announced in King’s Speech In the week that saw one of the world’s biggest IT outages, apparently caused by a cyber security firm no-less, a new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill was announced in the UK. The bill was set out in the King’s Speech on Wednesday last week (or, to be m...

Cyber threats evolving as a result of new technologies, warns ICO Cyber attacks are happening more frequently and will become increasingly sophisticated thanks to new technologies– organisations need to react accordingly. This was the message from the ICO in their report entitled “Learning from the mistakes of others” ...

How are your competitors managing cyber risk? Latest UK Government research on cyber published While we know that cyber preparedness is important, it can be difficult for businesses to assess if they are doing enough. Helpfully, the UK Government has recently published the results from two cyber surveys which can give organisations useful insights ...

Cyber update – what’s been happening in Q1 2024 As Q1 2024 comes to a close, I look back at some of the key cyber developments that have been keeping us, and our clients, busy so far this year: UK organisations more likely to pay ransoms: We are continuing to advise clients on ransomware attacks, and ...

Changes in Cyber Governance When I was a child, if you had asked me about cyber, I would have thought you were talking about the classic film of ET rather than anything to do with my rather snazzy sinclair spectrum (anyone else remember those….?). Things have come a long way since t...

GCHQ warns that AI will increase the global cyber threat The UK’s national cyber security centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ, has warned that AI will likely increase the global ransomware threat over the next two years, and that organisations need to implement protective measures to combat this growing threat. Ransomw...

Cyber lessons we can all learn from the ICO’s reprimand of BNT Given the number of cyber-attacks currently taking place, it’s always interesting to see what triggers a regulator to take action. The ICO’s recent reprimand to My Media World Ltd t/a Brand New Tube (‘BNT’) illustrates that a lack of regular pen testing, ...

IoT cybersecurity regulation picks up pace The regulatory framework for securing IoT devices is attracting the attention of both UK and EU regulators. In the EU, its Member States have recently agreed a common position on the proposed Cyber Resilience Act (which will deal with cybersecurity requir...

Cyber supply chain risk and the insurance sector The Capita cyber attack in March 2023 and possible resulting data breach has highlighted again the potential vulnerability of firms to cyber risk via their third party suppliers. The incident was particularly high profile given the scale of Capita’s opera...