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What is Smishing? Definition, Examples and Prevention

IT Governance

You can help educate your employees and bolster your organisation’s defences with our Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. This 45-minute course was developed by experts and uses real-life examples that bring to life the threat of phishing and the techniques that cyber criminals use.

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Security Training: Moving on from Nick Burns Through Better Communication

eSecurity Planet

Twenty years ago, Saturday Night Live nailed a tendency in IT to be overly absorbed in tech-speak and to do a poor job of educating users. A recent experience highlighted that security awareness training and most alerts to users about unsafe practices may be making the error of being too general. My takeaways from the experience?

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NCSC warns of a surge in ransomware attacks on education institutions

Security Affairs

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks targeting education institutions. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has issued an alert about a surge in ransomware attacks against education institutions. SecurityAffairs – hacking, education institutions). Pierluigi Paganini.

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What Is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)? Definition & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Blocking data access, limiting user privileges, or terminating suspicious processes are all examples of actions that can be taken to reinforce security standards and reduce the risk of data breaches or unauthorized disclosures. Definition & Best Practices appeared first on eSecurity Planet. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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GDPR: How the definition of personal data has changed

IT Governance

With the Regulation expanding the definition of personal data, many organisations were uncertain as to what the new definition includes. The GDPR’s definition of personal data is also much broader than under the DPA 1998. The scope of personal data. What constitutes personal data?

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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

For example, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires security features such as encryption to protect patients’ health information. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) requires encryption or equivalent security measures to protect private student records.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

The FTC, for example, has an extremely broad regulatory reach (sometimes having overlapping jurisdiction with other agencies) and enforces many laws not mentioned here that affect data practices. for example, all 50 states (along with the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. In the U.S.,