Free GDPR awareness talk available.
Each week during August, September and October 2017, L2 Cyber Security Solutions are offering one Free GDPR awareness talk, lasting up to an hour. This talk on the General Data Protection Regulation is available for any company, networking group, association, or sports and social club in the Mid-West of Ireland. We will give a high-level…
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GDPR Awareness Coalition & L2 Cyber Security Solutions working together.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Awareness Coalition is a not-for-profit, fixed-term initiative designed to assist in raising awareness of the data privacy obligations for companies resulting from the implementation of the GDPR. The GDPR is a legal framework that sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information of individuals within the European…
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The Ten Commandments of Cyber Security
The Ten Commandments of Cyber Security Click on the links for a summary and detail of each commandment. Thou shalt keep all of thy software and apps up-to-date with automatic updates. Thou shalt have Anti-virus software installed, updated and active. Thou shalt have a firewall in place on thine Desktop/Laptop as well as thine internet…
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Staff Security Awareness & Internet Safety Training
Your staff are probably your most valuable asset. However they may also be the biggest weakness to your IT and information security. Technological security solutions are only one part of the picture when it comes to protecting your business. Our jargon free, Staff Security Awareness Training will help them to:
- Identify threats
- Spot Social Engineering
- Identify bad e-mail
- Learn safe web usage
- Safe mobile phone use
- Create strong passwords
Find out more about the course outline.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on 25th May 2018 and all businesses need to be prepared for it. We can take the fear out of this legislation and help you with these preparations:
- Management Awareness Training
- Staff Awareness Training
- Audits of Personal Data
- Data Privacy Impact Assessments
- Data Breach Preparation
- Develop Privacy Policies
- Procedures to cater for individual’s rights
Check the GDPR section of our website for further information.
We are also proud partners to the not-for-profit Irish GDPR Awareness Coalition.
Security Risk Assessments
Not all hackers are outsiders. Those that can be hardest to detect are the ones who already have access to your systems. We can carry out an assessment of your overall security posture to identify any weaknesses and recommend further controls to remediate these:
- Vulnerability scanning
- Periodic user ID access and privilege reviews
- IT Infrastructure security & access review
- Security policy development
- Endpoint security review
- Risk identification and mitigation planning
We can work with you to implement the Center for Internet Security (CIS), Top-20 Security Controls for effective Cyber Defence.
Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery Planning
Are you prepared to continue your business after a fire or flood? Do your staff know what to do? What if you were unavailable in such an event? Have you any key staff? Could you continue if they were hospitalised unexpectedly?
We can help businesses of all sizes prepare for the worst by developing:
- Business Impact Assessments (BIA)
- Business Continuity Plans (BCP)
- IT Disaster Recovery Plans (ITDRP)
- Design a non-disruptive desktop/scenario testing exercise
- Design a full business continuity exercise
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Data Breaches – what’s the risk to you?
You probably keep hearing about data breaches. For example the AIB customer data breach that came out today. The recent Equifax data breach in the US (it’s only for Americans, so not your problem – or is it?).
Pacemaker updates – they’re a thing now!?!?
On August 23rd the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US approved the deployment of a software update for pacemakers made by St. Jude Medical. This was to fix vulnerabilities discovered in 2016, which were patched by St. Jude Medical in January 2017. Actually, vulnerabilities in pacemakers have been around for quite a while,…
Disaster Relief Charity Scam – watch out!
Disasters happen many times a year and huge disasters impacting the US that get massive coverage in the international media happen less frequently (Katrina 2005, Sandy 2012 and now Harvey 2017). What has also happened at all of these disasters is a vile crime. The Disaster Relief Charity Scam.
PSC – What’s all the fuss about a little card?
The Public Services Card (PSC) has become something of a “hot-button” topic in recent weeks. It’s been featuring on the national radio stations in the last week with plenty of discussion taking place. So in this post I’ll try to set out what is happening and why you may want to be concerned or not,…
Your receipt by e-mail. Is this OK?
I’ve noticed an upsurge in retailers asking me for my e-mail address, so they can send me a copy of my receipt. If that is all they are going to use it for, then that might be great because I will then have an electronic copy that I can keep and not have to worry…
New Privacy Policy 2017-08-01
We’ve updated the Privacy Policy on your website. We hope you enjoy it! 😃
Data Breach Handling – 3 recent examples.
You might remember that last year, Yahoo! were shown to have suffered a data breach not once, but twice which led to the personal data associated with ~1.5 billion accounts being stolen by evil doers. This was a pretty massive story at the time and it was widely reported.
Phishing subject lines – Top 10.
What would you expect if you got an e-mail with the subject line of “Security Alert”? How about “Unusual sign-in activity”? You probably expect it to be an e-mail that is trying to raise your awareness about some potential security issue. I’m afraid it is likely not. These are just two examples from the Top…
State agency wants to track tourists.
A story was published in the Irish Times yesterday about a long running debate between the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Ireland (the state agency for government statistics) and the Data Protection Commissioner (the state agency for the protection of personal data) in regards to a request that the CSO had submitted to get Irish…
Communication is vital after a disaster.
Maersk Line were one of the biggest victims of the Petya/NotPetya Ransomware worm that struck on 27th June 2017. Here are some details, in case you missed it. Two weeks later, they are still not back to full operational capacity, but they are doing something really well. The are using the critical competence of communication…
The latest Ransomware outbreak – Petya
So here we go again with another outbreak of Ransomware, based on the National Security Agency (NSA) hacking tools that were leaked by a hacking group. Some experts are calling this one Petya, as it seems very similar to the Petya Ransomware strain that has been around for over a year.
Permission to spy on you?
Most people have smart phones these days and of course smart phones really come into their own through the use of Apps. There seems to be an app for every conceivable thing and lots of them are free. The phone makers make a good effort to protect us from bad apps by making sure that…
Phone scams – some current examples
In the last few days, I’ve received a couple of attempted phone scams. The first was a new one on me, but the second was an old favourite.
How a typo can cause you problems.
Nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes. One of the most common mistakes, in particular with mobile phones and their small keyboards, is the simple typo. Did you know that the evil doers have got sneaky ways that they try to capitalise on your fumbling fingers? It’s a technique called “Typosquatting“.
Fireball – 1,000 times bigger than Wannacry.
Have you seen the news reports and headlines about Fireball? No? That’s odd. 250 million PCs are infested with it. That’s a thousand times more machines around the world than WannaCry (you do remember WannaCry don’t you, or was it sooo two weeks ago 😏). So you would think the news organisations would be all…
About Us
We are an Irish IT Security Consultancy, founded in 2016. We have over 27 years of experience working in IT. Our founder, Liam Lynch, has an inherent ability when it comes to security, both physical and digital. It can be best described by altering the catchphrase of Cole Sear, the child in the movie The Sixth Sense, “I see security!"
Liam has worked with a number of companies over the years. From small operations to large corporations. He found that, in spite of massive expenditure on technological security solutions, these can all be thwarted by "Fred" in accounting opening an “invoice” (i.e. evil software) in an e-mail which has sneaked past all of the filters, firewalls and anti-virus.
Liam thought there had to be a better way, as he would be very unlikely to fall for such a scam. After all he's not paranoid … he knows they are all out to get him! He knows what the threats are out there and how to spot them and protect himself from them. So he spent months working on developing the most comprehensive Security Awareness and Internet Safety Training on the market. He can relate this knowledge to people of any ability and get them to learn how they can protect themselves, the businesses they work for and their families.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
Albert Einstein
L2 Cyber Security Solutions,
Shanballyedmond, Rearcross,
Newport, Co. Tipperary,
V94 RTR9, Ireland.
Tel: 087-436-2675
E-mail: info@L2CyberSecurity.com
Support: support@L2CyberSecurity.com
Blog: https://www.l2cybersecurity.com/blog