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Criminals often take advantage of a crisis by using phishing emails that appear to originate from reputable and familiar organisations. We've got some...

GDPR compliance becomes more challenging than ever during times of disruption. To maintain data protection compliance you will need to focus and prior...

What implications does the UK leaving the European Union have for the GDPR? Will anything change? We answer your most frequently asked questions.

Before you transfer personal data to other organisations, especially outside the EEA, you need to stop and think about the GDPR implications.

Breaching the GDPR can cost you up to €20m or 4% of annual global turnover. Which is why we are tracking the size and reasons for the biggest GDPR fin...

Ransomware attacks - where hackers gain control of IT systems or data and then demand payment to unlock them - doubled in the UK in 2019. Now only the...

Penalties for breaching the GDPR can reach up to €20 million or 4% of annual global turnover, whichever is highest. We examine the size and reasons fo...

Cyber crime creates a huge financial drain on the UK economy every single year. Nearly half of UK businesses reported a cyber attack, according to spe...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ushered in a new era in the protection of personal data in 2018. Any company deemed non-compliant faces ...

At Skillcast we are committed to quality, and committed to our customers. This is why we value our ISO 9001 certification, which we have maintained co...

The Skillcast Compliance Insights Survey found 4 in 5 employees & their managers believed that they understand & comply with data protection legislati...

Almost a year on from the implementation of the GDPR, Skillcast held a breakfast forum for its clients at South Place Hotel. During this session, Skil...

Ever wondered whether you need a Data Protection Officer (DPO)? If you haven't appointed a DPO but are thinking if you should have done, we are here t...

What constitutes personal data under GDPR? With GDPR, comes a widening in scope of what constitutes personal data. Historically, we have taken persona...

It has long been accepted that data protection, has by and large been a poor relation in the world of compliance, and in particular never been a good ...

Under GDPR, Article 12 (5), a response to a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) must now be provided free of charge, unless the request is deemed to be...

As the fallout continues following the data scandal embracing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, after facing heavy criticism for his long silence, its...

Social media companies are being urged to do more to protect users' personal data following the Facebook scandal where data analytics firm Cambridge A...

Facebook's value has dropped $50bn following the data scandal which saw 50 million users' personal data being scraped and shared with data firm Cambri...

There have been almost 100 million cyber attacks on UK local government over the last four years, with around 1 in 4 local authority systems being bre...