When a company experiences a cyber-attack, it always makes the news. It’s the negative press that does the business in question no favours at all. So, here’s why investing in a good data protection policy can be great for your business.
In May 2018, the way companies in the UK handle personal data needs to change. The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force and companies will immediately face fines of €20m or 4% of their global turnover (whichever is higher) for breaches to their data banks.
If you’re a regular visitor on our blog/news page, you’ll have noticed that we’ve been badgering on for quite some time now about the GDPR and its vast consequences. “Huge fines” and “damaged reputation” are terms we seem to have used over and over to best describe the effects of the GDPR.
Just last week, plans for new laws on data protection in the UK were confirmed in Queen Elizabeth II’s Speech.
It may seem like it was just yesterday that we were celebrating the turn of the New Year, but the illuminating reality is that today – 25th May 2017 – marks exactly one year – just 12 short months until the GDPR (European General Data Protection Regulation) takes effect.
MFG Managed Encryption were the proud sponsors of IT Governance’s first partner event last week (Friday 28th April 2017) at Reading FC’s Madejski Stadium, just up the road to our UK headquarters.
Many businesses will be ‘wrapping-up’ the last of this year’s work, setting their out-of-office auto-reply messages and will be doing the Rockin’ Robin all the way out the door, ready for a well deserved Christmas break.
Yesterday – 24th November 2016, some of the team at MFG Managed Encryption made their way to The Enterprise Security & Risk Management Summit at the Hilton Tower Bridge.
We recently wrote about the uncertainty surrounding the GDPR, it’s implementation and its relevancy post-Brexit. The ICO has now confirmed that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will now be obligatory, which means that organisations now have less than 18 months to comply with the GDPR if you handle EU citizen data, which includes residents of the UK.
We often preach about the good of work of the ICO. The ICO is the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the interest of the public. With data breaches on the rise, we at Managed Encryption (together with the help of the ICO) set out to educate businesses and organisations on the importance of securing sensitive data, both public and business related.