Featuring: Irene Coyle – Director of Training /DPO @ OSP Cyber Academy

Featuring: Irene Coyle – Director of Training /DPO @ OSP Cyber Academy  

The most recent high profile case of a cyber-attack involves Eurofins Scientific, a company that accounts for over half of the UK’s forensic science provision. The company stated it was the target of a ‘highly sophisticated’ ransomware attack on the 2nd of June and is under criminal investigation. As a result the police have stopped

“He acted with determination and undoubted ingenuity and it was sophisticated, it was calculating. This represents the most extensive and grave incident of social media hacking to be brought before the British courts.” Everyone knows Facebook. Hear the interesting background from the barrister who prosecuted the hacker that almost brought Facebook to it’s knees. This

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is certainly leaving its mark on the data protection field by being the first legislation of its kind to tackle present-day dangers to data security and companies’ accountability to their customers in the face of these threats. Many companies are struggling to put in place the infrastructure needed to

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published its report to Parliament bringing the ICO’s investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns up-to-date. It is the largest investigation of its type undertaken by any supervisory authority and the report covers areas investigated, findings and actions to date. Particular concerns surrounding voters’ personal privacy

”2017 brought unrelenting growth in cybercrime including ransomware, phishing, hacking, social engineering and targeted campaigns, some state-sponsored. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has ranked cybercrime in the top three risks the world will face in 2018. According to its statistics, 357 million malware variants were released in 2016 alone and banking trojans (designed to steal

“TalkTalk’s failure to implement the most basic cyber security measures allowed hackers to penetrate TalkTalk’s systems with ease. Yes, hacking is wrong, but that is not an excuse for companies to abdicate their security obligations. TalkTalk should and could have done more to safeguard its customer information. It did not and we have taken action.”

Just weeks ahead of the new European Data Protection law which came into effect on 25th May 2018, its parent SCL Elections Ltd. And Cambridge Analytica filed applications to commence insolvency proceedings, following wide spread media reports that it harvested personal data about Facebook users as far back as in 2014. “The siege of media

Former Chief Inspector with Police Scotland Irene Coyle, having retired after serving 30 years has now joined OSP Cyber Academy as Training Director, and acts as the Data Protection Officer for OSP Group Ltd. Irene is a certified GCHQ accredited Data Protection and GDPR practitioner; a registered DPO with the ICO, and now supports a