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Privacy Polices – Common Mistakes
I spend a lot of time looking at Privacy Policies, it’s one of the first pages I go to when I land on a website. Now, before you judge me, it’s a great way for me to see if someone is my ideal client or not ! I can tell by skim reading a few paragraphs of their...
What is a Personal Data Inventory and why do you need one?
What is a Personal Data Inventory? A personal data inventory is simply a record of all the personal data that you collect in your business. It’s often called a Personal data mapping exercise and works best using a spreadsheet or table. It's like a stock take of...
Focus on fraud – What is Supplier Mandate/Invoice fraud and how to prevent it?
Supplier mandate fraud involves an attempt to impersonate a known supplier and divert legitimate payments into a fraudster’s bank account. Figures for 2018 released by UK Finance show there were 3,280 cases of supplier mandate fraud in the UK resulting in a loss of...
Focus on fraud – What is CEO fraud and how to prevent it?
CEO fraud is so called because fraudsters impersonate the Chief Executive Officer, Finance Director or similar senior manager of an organisation, requesting a payment or bank transfer to be made, either by telephone or email. The request is often based on urgency...
Human error and data incidents
It's only to be expected that there has been a significant increase in the number of data security incidents reported by The Information Commissioner's Office in their recent quarterly stats. The publicity around GDPR which came into force in May 2018 has of course...
