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Episode 7: Cyber security - everything a DPO needs to know. Part 1.

GDPR Now!

Karen Heaton/Data Protection 4 Business

Gdpr Now!, Data Breaches, Cyber Security, Personal Data, Gdpr Now, Outsourced Dpo, Management, Business, Data Protection Officer, Business News, Privacy, It Security, Data Protection, News, Gdpr

4.811 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Cyber security for DPOs. Cyber security isn’t usually the primary responsibility of the DPO, but you can’t be an effective DPO if you don’t understand the security regime in your organisation and the trade-offs behind them. In this episode, we look at cyber security: what does it really consist of? how best to think about it? and what are the most common areas of vulnerability? GDPR Now! Is brought to you by This Is DPO. www.thisisdpo.co.uk. Guest/s Andy Larkum CEO of ADL Consulting https://adlconsulting.co.uk [email protected] Host Mark Sherwood-Edwards [email protected] Materials Breaking News! You can try ADL Consulting’s "Introduction to Cyber Security" module for free here: https://adlconsulting.teachable.com/p/an-introduction-to-cyber-security Cyber Essentials self-assessment questionnaire: https://adlconsulting.co.uk/getting-help-cyber-essentials - see heading "What's Involved" ISO 27001 https://adlconsulting.co.uk/iso27001-consultancy Training: https://adlconsulting.co.uk/staff-training https://adlconsulting.teachable.com Questions, suggestion for improvement, ideas for issues to be covered in future episodes, or if you would like to appear one of our podcasts, please contact us at [email protected] Guest: Andy Larkum.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of GDPL now, a podcast dedicated GDPR on all things privacy.

0:06.0

This week we're going to be talking about information security.

0:10.0

Now we all know that information security is key to a healthy and effective data protection regime.

0:16.0

And this podcast is going to give us privacy professionals a basic understanding of everything

0:24.0

we need to know to be able to assess, discuss and challenge the security practices in our

0:30.7

organizations.

0:32.8

Okay, now we've already put out a podcast on cyber insurance.

0:37.3

So this one and the previous one on cyber insurance

0:40.4

should make a nice pair if anyone's interested

0:42.8

in this particular area.

0:44.3

Now, we're lucky to have in the studio today,

0:46.2

Andy Larkham, who's a cybersecurity specialist.

0:49.2

He's MD of ADL consulting.

0:52.4

And he's coming to help us or help me at least understand how

0:56.6

information security works in practice so Andy welcome hi thanks for having me not at all

1:03.0

would you like to tell us a bit about yourself how you got into cyber security

1:07.8

what your business ADL consulting does? Yeah, sure.

1:11.2

So thanks again for having me.

1:13.9

I set up ADL a long time ago, actually, in a previous incarnation ADL built websites

1:19.0

and database systems, so all things online.

1:21.6

And I kind of fell out of love, really, with that industry.

1:24.4

It was quite hard to keep up with everything.

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