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Cyber-Attacks – Are you prepared?

15 May, 2017 | Auditing, ISO 27001, ISO 9001

The NHS hit the headlines this weekend due to an extensive cyber-attack that caused many services to come to a standstill. You can’t help but reflect how such an attack could impact your own organisation. Are there systems in place to ensure that this won’t happen and if it does what’s the business continuity plan? How will your customers, suppliers and staff be affected? And by no means least what is the damage to your reputation and bottom line?

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Safeguarding Information

22 Apr, 2017 | Auditing, ISO 27001, ISO 9001

David Cole, director at Bywater, explains why data security has become a key requirement when designing or auditing management systems and processes

A recent article on techworld.com reminded me of the number and severity of information security breaches that take place in the UK. According to the article, the UK is second only to the US on the number of breaches and in 2016 alone there were many household names on the front pages of our newspapers for all the wrong reasons.

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