Beginners guide to GDPR and Cyber Security Seminar

Agency Directors, Partners and Trustees have accountability for Cyber Security and Data Protection. This is a significant responsibility, as the fostering sector, perhaps more than any other, controls and processes a large amount of personal and special categories of personal information.

Understandably agencies will focus on their core safeguarding principles - providing safe and caring homes for vulnerable young people; consequently cyber and data issues maybe assumed to be adequate as someone else is responsible for them.

What happens when there’s a data breach, a subject access request going back 20 years, a ransomware attack or a complaint from a data subject (e.g. a carer or an employee)?

Would your senior management team know what questions to ask?

Guardian Saints recently ran seminars looking at Cyber Essentials certification requirements and one of our key takeaways was that some attendees had a significant knowledge gap in cyber security and data protection basics.

No one knows everything, and no one can be expected to be an expert in fields outside their experience, but when running a business that relies on data and supporting technologies, it pays to have a basic understanding of the technology risks your agency faces.

Aimed at all levels, Guardian Saints in association with NAFP are hosting a new seminar on 18th October to help admin staff, compliance officers, senior managers and directors understand cyber security basics, but we need your help. We don’t know what you don’t know! So if you need to know what a router does, why strong passwords are important, what MFA means or why you keep having to update your pc and your phone – then join our jargon busting seminar and find out.

To make sure we hit the right note, we have provided a very short survey so that we can understand the needs of interested agencies, please take a few moments to complete the form and tell what you would like us to cover. https://forms.office.com/r/ns4jYaDAF5