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Mar 21, 20245 min read
Should My Small Retail Business Invest in an FSWA?
For any organisation, maintaining a presence online is increasingly important for success in today’s digital economy. Whether it is used...


Mar 12, 20244 min read
Would a cyber vulnerability assessment help my travel or leisure business?
In 2023 a report on behalf of Security magazine announced • The travel and tourism sector ranked third in cyberattack incidents according...


Nov 20, 20233 min read
Is my healthcare website secure?
Health sector website vulnerability


Nov 22, 20225 min read
Food and Retail Businesses – are your websites secure?
The past two years have presented some really unique challenges and opportunities for the sector. Brexit, COVID, increased fuel costs and...


Oct 11, 20224 min read
Would you find it difficult to advertise houses for sale without a website?
Websites are essential for most businesses and the property sector is no exception. Digital shop fronts allow prospective buyers to view...


Oct 4, 20225 min read
What does the cyber insider threat look like for logistics firms?
Getting stuff from A to B has never been more important or more in the public eye. And with the challenges of the pandemic, Brexit and...

Sep 28, 20223 min read
TP Talks – What challenges are our Trusted Partners seeing?
Every quarter the ECRC meets with their fabulous Trusted Partners (TP) to discuss what cyber threats they are seeing. This quarter...


Sep 28, 20222 min read
If you run an industrial company, you’re number 1!
According to a recent report by Kaspersky, industrial companies are the number one, most targeted sector for cyber criminals, with growth...


Sep 27, 20224 min read
Local Government and Ransomware attacks. Do they actually happen?
Yes, they do, and more frequently than you might think. Cybercriminals have shown repeatedly that they love data, and the more sensitive...


Sep 21, 20224 min read
Food and Retail Businesses – be aware – you might be in line for a DDoS cyber-attack!
The first step in dealing with your organisation’s cyber security is embracing the fact that you are in fact at risk in the first place....


Sep 7, 20224 min read
What are the free cyber security tools that Healthcare could utilise?
Healthcare companies are still at risk from a range of cybercrime attacks, from the annoying, obvious phishing attempt, to the...


Sep 1, 20224 min read
How do I make my school website more difficult for cybercriminals to hack?
Cyber-attacks against schools continue to be a concern across the Eastern region. The reasons for this are fairly simple Schools possess...


Aug 31, 20224 min read
Charity Sector – what will you do when cyber criminals attack your organisation?
One of the biggest assumptions made by charities around cybercrime is that they won’t be affected as they don’t have anything of value to...


Aug 25, 20222 min read
What does a manufacturing company do when their production operations suddenly grind to a halt?
Hope they have an incident response plan. The consequences of a cyber-attack can range from a nuisance phishing email to a successful...


Aug 24, 20223 min read
Top tips for transport and logistics firms
Travel and Logistics firms are a lucrative target for cyber criminals and this has continued to increase over recent years. What are the...


Aug 23, 20222 min read
It’s not just criminal hackers that local government should worry about.
Insider threats, both malicious and accidental are also a situation that every company, but especially local government needs to be aware...


Aug 18, 20222 min read
Could your leisure company defend or recover from a Ransomware attack?
Ransomware is one of the highest profile cyber-attack because of the high impact that it has in terms of disruption (you can’t access...


Aug 17, 20221 min read
IT industry update
This month we are looking at what interesting insights we have been able to find about cyber security within the IT sector. Researchers...

Aug 16, 20222 min read
Why should my HR company get Cyber Essentials Accreditation?
One of the consequences of a successful cyber attack may be the loss/theft of personal data, which HR firms hold in abundance, and could...


Aug 11, 20223 min read
Could an email be a threat to your healthcare business?
Among businesses, healthcare is one of the sectors most likely to hold personal data. 81% of businesses stating they do, according to the...

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