An Irish Cyber Security & Data Protection Training and Consultancy Company
You 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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First Annual Report from the DPC
The first annual report from the Data Protection Commission, under the auspices of the GDPR has just been released.
Not GDPR Compliant – Really?
A colleague at another company forwarded me an email he’d received knowing that I’d get a kick out of it. It claimed to be from the UK GDPR Compliance Directory and that his company was not GDPR compliant. Of course no such directory exists and this was nothing but a ruse.
Whatsapp Authentication Sucks
Whatsapp Authentication sucks. It sucks really badly. I’d never thought about it before, but then I saw this tweet yesterday. A lady got a new phone number and when she set up Whatsapp, she had a load of messages on there from the previous owner of the number.
Luas Ransomware Incident – Offline a while now
How did you hear about the Luas Ransomware incident? Was it on the news? Online? Facebook? Twitter? Instagram? Or did you happen to visit the website to check some fare information and get confronted by a very basic ransom demand.
Review of my 2018 predictions.
I continue not to see many people who make predictions for the coming year actually come back to review what they predicted. As I showed last year, I’m not one of those, so here is my review. I’ve included the original text below in blue, but the full article for my 2018 predictions is here.
Paying Ransomware may break the law
Some businesses that are affected by a Ransomware incident, make a decision to pay the criminals in order to recover their data. This is usually because they believe it is more expensive to go through the recovery process. If they have poor or non-existent backups, then that may very well be the case, so they…
Dash cam – Machina Non Grata.
A dash cam is a popular Christmas present or indeed a present at any time of year. I got one earlier this year and have been having it merrily record the road ahead of my car ever since. I was doing this with the belief that the household exemption covered such recording. This is the…
Hoax Bomb Extortion Emails Are Latest Scam
In the last couple of days there are reports of hoax bomb threats being sent by e-mail. They’ve been particularly prevalent in the USA, but there is nothing to stop them spreading. They’ve targeted schools, government facilities and some businesses.
Sextortion Scam Volume 3
Remember the original Sextortion scam back in July? The one where they used an old password to make it look like the e-mail was plausible. This then evolved in August to add the use of partial mobile numbers. Well, it’s BAAAACKK!!!
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…
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