Cyber Security and The GDPR
Hardly a month seems to go by without a major cyber security breach hitting the headlines but just how big a risk is cyber security to the average organisation? Its easy to sweep the #GDPR and #CyberSecurity under the mat and think it won't happen here. The annual cyber security survey provides a useful insight into just how wrong that view may be. The 2017 survey reported: "46% of all UK businesses identified at least one cyber security breach or attack in the last 12 months. " "Overall, businesses that hold electronic personal data on customers are more likely than average to have had breaches (51% versus 46%). Nonetheless, breaches are still prevalent among organisations whose senior managers consider cyber security a low priority (35%), and in firms where online services are not at all seen as core to the business (41%)." "Among the 46 per cent of businesses that detected breaches in the last 12 months, the survey finds that the average bu