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Rules, Guidelines & Procedures

Read our free, impartial online safety advice for your business on rules, guidelines & procedures. Below you will find advice on many topics including the Cyber Essentials scheme, staff training and governance.

CiSP

The Cyber-security Information Sharing Partnership (CiSP) is a joint industry/government initiative to share cyber threat and vulnerability information in order to increase overall situational awareness of the cyber threat and...

Cyber & Information Security Support

This website is designed to help you – as a small to medium sized organisation – to establish and maintain the appropriate levels of safety to safeguard your  IT systems, devices, business and employees against issues...

Business Security Planning

IT, as well as online security, is vital for organisations of any size. The alternatives include business interruption, poor legal compliance, impact on revenue, compromised reputation or, at worst, business failure. Therefore,...

User Accounts

In any organisation where more than one person has access to a computer or network, it is necessary to set up user accounts in order to give individuals access to their own files, programs, email accounts, choice of internet...

The Cyber Essentials Scheme

Cyber Essentials is a scheme launched by the Government in June 2014 in order to define a basic cyber security standard for UK organisations and provide them, customers and partners with confidence in their ability to measure and...

Guidelines for Charities

Trustees of Registered Charities have overall responsibility for keeping the assets of the charity safe. Every kind of organisation, especially those which have an online presence, is a potential target for fraudsters....

Unnecessary Services

Your organisation may sometimes retain or be have responsibility for old computing services that have become redundant. ...

Staff Training

Educating your workforce is the main line of defence against online threats and breaches in information security. The best internet security software is of little use if employees do not know how to spot a phishing email, and the...

Staff Behaviour

Online and information security and safety can be likened to any other kind of security and safety in the workplace....

Staff Policies

Virtually every organisation enables staff to access the internet in order to carry out their day-to-day work. As with going online at home, the convenience and efficiency is balanced by a degree of risk, which must be minimised....

Legal Compliance

Maintaining robust cyber and information security and safety in your organisation – whatever its size or nature of its business – is vital for many reasons. Remaining legally compliant is a very important one. Apart from...

Employee Qualifications

The qualifications necessary for you, your employees and your security support organisations will vary according to the size, structure, management and IT provisioning of your organisation....

Certification

Any organisation making an effort to improve its data security will be more attractive to customers and suppliers, who know that their data will be looked after better with that organisation. As people begin to understand the...

Cyber Liability Insurance

Insurance has long been used by businesses as part of their risk management and disaster recovery plans and there are plenty of statistics that demonstrate that inadequately insured businesses are unlikely to survive major...

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Knowing how you are going to maintain ‘business as usual’ in the event of data or technology problems is vital. Disruption of your operations, reduced or absence of customer service, reduced profitability and compromised...

Password Protocol & Control

Passwords are the most common way for your organisation and the people in it to prove identity when banking, making purchases and other transactional online activities, accessing services, using email and accessing computers...

IT Support

This website is designed to help small and medium sized organisations to establish and maintain the appropriate levels of safety to safeguard IT systems, devices, business and employees against issues relating to online and...

Governance

Cyber and information security should be regarded as a critical issue in every organisation, so you should have in place a framework for its governance. Setting up, directing and monitoring this framework should be the...

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