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Why should my school join the Eastern Cyber Resilience Centre?
Cyber-attacks against schools continue to be a concern across the Eastern region. The reasons for this are fairly simple. Schools possess...
Feb 21, 20233 min read


Are Construction Companies likely to be a victim of a phishing attack?
Fifty percent of the construction companies on mainland UK are in the East and Southeast of England. Construction is big business in The...
Feb 7, 20234 min read


Why would a Logistics company want to be Cyber Essentials accredited?
Travel and Logistics firms are a lucrative target for cyber criminals, and this has continued to increase over recent years....
Jan 31, 20233 min read


Financial and Property sectors - Why should you join the ECRC?
Well, you could save thousands of pounds, your corporate reputation or the very existence of the business itself! The financial sectors...
Jan 26, 20233 min read


IT sector - Do you check your online vulnerabilities as well?
On a day-to-day basis, I.T. departments are responsible for ensuring that the sharing, storage, and accessibility of corporate data are...
Jan 17, 20233 min read


Is the healthcare sector at risk from ransomware?
Ransomware attacks continued as a significant threat to healthcare organizations in 2022 though the true scale of it remains an enigma....
Jan 10, 20234 min read


LastPass Security Incident – What should you do?
Advisory Group member Darren Chapman of CyberScale has some advice following the LastPass Security Incident Are you aware of the recent...
Jan 5, 20237 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, 20223 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 28, 20222 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 27, 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 21, 20224 min read


How does remote working affect cyber security in the financial and legal sectors?
The financial and legal sectors have experienced a significant rise in cybercrime activity over the past few years as the following stats...
Sep 20, 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 7, 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 31, 20224 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 25, 20222 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 24, 20223 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 23, 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 18, 20222 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 17, 20221 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 16, 20222 min read

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