by Annabelle Atkin | Sep 20, 2022 | Centre of Cyber Excellence, CoE Blog, Cyber security
iESE Outlines Public Sector’s Cyber Risk To APPG Published on 23/08/22 With cyber security an ever-present and growing threat to local authorities, a recent All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Cyber Security heard from iESE and two other industry experts about the... by Annabelle Atkin | Sep 20, 2022 | Centre of Cyber Excellence, CoE Blog, Cyber security
iESE Offers Reduced Rate Cyber-Attack Simulation Published on 11/08/22 iESE has teamed up with cyber security experts at Assurity Systems to offer a Ransomware Attack Simulation Service designed to test how effective your current systems are against the latest... by Annabelle Atkin | Jun 10, 2022 | Centre of Cyber Excellence, CoE Blog, Cyber security
No Place For Cyber Complacency Published on 23/05/22 Cyber security is growing in urgency and while district councils are smaller in scale, they cannot afford to be complacent as shown by the recent attack which hit Gloucester City Council. The launch of the UK’s... by Annabelle Atkin | Apr 24, 2022 | Centre of Cyber Excellence, CoE Blog, Cyber security
Local Government Cyber Attack – Learning from Redcar and Cleveland In January I talked about new threats arising from the shift to truly digitally enabled services. Since then we have seen the catastrophic attack on Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council. With an... by Annabelle Atkin | Feb 9, 2022 | CoE Blog, Cyber security
Why Councils Should Keep Cyber Security High Up The Agenda Published on 10/02/22 While a recent study suggests the number of cyber attacks on local authorities needing to be reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office may have fallen in 2020 compared with 2019,... by Annabelle Atkin | Nov 29, 2021 | CoE Blog, Cyber security
What To Do When Best Practice Still Loses You £6.4m? Published on 09/12/21 | Written by Dr Andrew Larner, Chief Executive In June of this year Redscan Cyber Security published a report on breaches of councils’ cyber security. Of the councils responding, 10 had their...