Upcoming Public Training Schedule
The following is the training schedule for publicly accessible courses or speaking events that are being provided by the team at L2 Cyber Security Solutions. Please click on the Book Here link to secure a place.
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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. L2 Cyber Security Solutions is a proud partner of this group.
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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.
Read MoreYou can reduce the risk of a cyber attack by protecting your most valuable asset - YOUR STAFF!",
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. You can get an outline of our GDPR Awareness Training here and our GDPR Practical Training here.
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 Everywhere
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … has come early for the evil doers. There just seems to be a relentless tale of data breach after data breach in recent weeks and it has been really bad in the last week.
GDPR fines are starting to come.
Shortly after I posted about the Austrian GDPR fine, another fine was issued by the regulatory authority in Portugal. Late last week the German regulatory authority imposed another fine on an App maker. So the GDPR fines are beginning to come. Let’s take a quick look at these three cases and then see what you…
Shopping Safely Online – 2018 Edition
Like it or lump it, today is Cyber Monday here in Ireland now, because the retailers want it to be. So we have adopted another US tradition. Most Irish people prefer to buy their stuff in bricks and mortar stores. Online shopping, though, has been growing dramatically in recent years.
NUI Galway Data Breach – Lessons learned?
The NUI Galway data breach that was revealed this week is concerning. Particularly the initial reports about the breach, which weren’t very clear.
Facebook are only fined £500,000
You remember the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica mess from earlier this year? Well, Facebook have been issued with a notice that they are to be fined £500,000 as a result of this. “What? Facebook are only fined £500,000?” I hear you cry.
GDPR hasn’t gone away.
Something I’ve noticed since the summer holidays came to an end, interest in GDPR related training and discussions have dropped away. I’ve asked around why this might be. The most common type of response is “Sure that GDPR thing was a pile of scare mongering. Nothing has happened. It’s like that Y2K nonsense we had…
The Chinese hacking server hardware
You may have heard some pretty scary headlines or stories recently about a Bloomberg Businessweek article. This was about the Chinese hacking server hardware by implanting little “bugs” onto the main electronic boards of the servers.
Facebook Breach – The DPC was very public about it.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week, you will have heard about the Facebook breach. This is where the accounts of at least 50 million people were compromised by evil doers.
How to deal with Ransomware.
I want to come back to this topic on how to deal with Ransomware. This is because I keep meeting business people in the training that I deliver who, either know of somebody or have themselves, suffered a Ransomware incident.
Vulnerable Shopping Carts lead to Credit Card breaches
You may have heard about the Ticketmaster data breach earlier this summer. You probably also have heard about the British Airways data breach at the start of this month. A new breach at another large online marketplace using the same technique shows that vulnerable shopping carts are being exploited more and more.
Dodgy extensions and not a builder in sight.
A lot of normal people might think about the phrase “dodgy extensions” and associate it with some kind of cowboy builder. But alas, the dodgy extensions to which I refer are in a web browser and these could lead you to a data breach or worse.
Holiday Data Breach Photos.
Most normal people go on holidays, forget about work, relax and enjoy themselves. They also, probably take lots of nice photos of the great places they’ve been and the nice food they’ve eaten. I went on holiday recently in remote, rural Ireland and I did pretty much all of the above.
Eir laptop theft – could have been worse
The eir laptop theft that was revealed this week was pretty … actually … it was really bad and deeply embarrassing for eir. However details that emerged from the statement by the Data Protection Commission showed that it could have been a LOT worse. 1,500 Laptops worse!
Sextortion scam – a follow up.
This time last month I posted about a sextortion scam that was sending out large amounts of emails to people claiming to have recorded them watching porn. As proof that they meant business, they included an old password the victim had previously used. There have been some developments.
Identity theft enabled by fun quizzes.
If you are on social media, you will no doubt have come across those fun quizzes. You know the ones, “What’s your Westeros name?” or “What was the number 1 song the day you were born?”
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