Information Security can be a rather scary prospect, let’s face it – no one wants to have their personal information hijacked by a data pirate!
In our personal lives we tend to be rather vigilant but in the workplace we are often guilty of ignoring best practice. That notepad on your desk full of notes from your management meeting, or the ‘remember password’ function you’ve installed on your computer – we all make it too easy to be hacked!
These ‘Top 5 Information Security breaches’ will really get you thinking about how easy it can be to slip up:
- Manchester Police suffered a £150K fine due to an unencrypted USB being stolen from an officer’s home, read more on the BBC website
- Three HSBC firms were fined over £3M by the UK FSA for losing customer data, read more on the BBC website
- The UK Government lost 25 million child benefit records sent via their internal mail system, invoking a “significant and disturbing breach” of data protection rules, read more on the BBC website
- Nationwide (Building Soc.) has been fined £980K by the UK FSA after the theft of a laptop which contained confidential data of nearly 11 million customers, read more on the BBC website
- Stoke-on-Trent Council were fined £120K by the ICO due to sensitive information about a child protection legal case being emailed (without encryption) to the wrong person, read more on the BBC website
With even the biggest of corporations falling victim to information security attacks, more and more companies are reviewing their risk management processes by following the ISO 27001 Information Security Management Systems (ISMS).
