Hello and welcome to another episode of GDPR Now, a podcast dedicated to all things related to data

security and data privacy brought to you by Data Protection for Business and this is DPO.

Your host today is me, Karen Heaton, owner of Data Protection for Business, recording from my

home office in southwest London. This episode is part of

our series of updated podcasts addressing security and privacy concerns, resulting from the coronavirus

pandemic and the shift in working practices for millions of businesses across the UK and the world.

In this episode, we are delighted to have Andrew Alston.

He's the founding director at Breach Aware and Business Intelligence Theorem.

Today, Andrew is going to talk to us about Breach Aware,

which is a data breach monitoring and reporting application.

It's designed to help organisations detect and

prevent crime as part of their system of risk management. So Andrew, can you tell us a bit about

why you started breach aware? Hi, Karen. Thanks for having me on the show. Yes, I used to work for

a security company a few years ago,

and we were selling some quite sophisticated technology. And one of the things that we noted

was that the organisations we were selling to from some of the basic tools out there, that's half the members we were

talking to have been compromised on the dark web or surface web, and we're using basic tools

just to check whether they were vulnerable to any malicious attack from outside. So we immediately

thought, well, is there an enterprise tool out there that can identify

risk on a mass scale on the market?

And it wasn't at that time.

And we started a project off.

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