Cyber Security

Cyber Security Information & Networking Evening

Event Date: 
07/02/2017 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Venue: 
Yeomans, 11 Hennock Road Central, Exeter EX2 8NP

Learn how to prepare your business against cyber attack at the South West's first Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW).

CSAW is a week-long programme of informative briefings, networking opportunities and advice sessions to help South West businesses get to grips with the issues and know what to do to mitigate against them.

This event is a session of short presentations and an opportunity to network:

Bluegrass: ‘The Dark Net - What Happens To Stolen Data And How Does It Get Stolen In The First Place’ Datto: ‘A Practical Demonstration On A Ransomware Attack And How...

Free cyber security course for businesses

Preventing Cyber Crime Against Business (SME) and the new GDPR

We are calling all businesses, including local, parish and town Councils, to attend this FREE course and benefit from understanding cyber threats and online fraud.

Devon Communities Together is working with Devon and Cornwall Police to develop free training courses to help VCSE organisations and Devon Parish and Town Council staff and Councillors to understand online threats and how to protect business data, money and reputation.

The General Data Protection Requirement (GDPR) will come into effect in...

Cyber Security Training by Devon and Cornwall Police at the Training Hub

Event Date: 
25/01/2017 - 9:00am to 3:45pm
Venue: 
Training Hub Exeter, Unit 3 &4 Cranmere court, Lustleigh Close, Exeter, EX2 8PW

Preventing Cyber Crime Against Business (SME) and the new GDPR We are calling all businesses, including local, parish and town Councils, to attend this FREE course and benefit from understanding cyber threats and online fraud. Devon Communities Together is working with Devon and Cornwall Police to develop free training courses to help VCSE organisations and Devon Parish and Town Council staff and Councillors to understand online threats and how to protect business data, money and reputation. The General Data Protection Requirement (GDPR) will come into effect in 2018. It will change how...

Is your business cyber secure?

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 09/07/2016 - 6:41am

Devon & Somerset Trading Standards Service is hosting a free event in October to help businesses protect themselves against digital threats.

Digital crime can affect any business which uses a computer or communicates digitally with customers or suppliers.

If your business uses email, online banking and internet marketing your business could potentially be at risk from cyber rogues.

Trading standards wants to give local businesses the tools to protect themselves against online scammers by informing them on the ways they could be targeted and what to look out for...

Social:haus warns of 'reputational risk' from password hacks

Authored by Socialhaus
Posted: Fri, 07/12/2013 - 10:54am

Businesses that use online resources are being warned that they risk serious reputational damage if they do not keep on top of their password security according to Devon-based training and marketing agency, Social:haus.

The hacking of social, gaming and other online platforms and resources is nothing new and Social:haus CEO, James Barisic, says that it is the most likely cause of a noticeable spike in the number of hacked Twitter and Facebook accounts appearing online – and an increase in spam messages, including pornography and phishing attacks, appearing on social media streams...

Social media plagued by privacy problems, say researchers in June issue of 'Computer' magazine

The privacy management of 16 popular social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, is “seriously deficient,” according to a study being published in the June issue of Computer magazine.

Researchers from UK-based Security Lancaster , an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research at Lancaster University, found a disconnect between privacy statements and the site’s actual privacy controls.

“Although social networking sites continue to attract millions of diverse users worldwide, they remain plagued by privacy compromises that breed user dissatisfaction...

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