In the first six months of 2023, the Information Commissioner’s Office ordered eight businesses to pay almost £13.5 million in fines for misusing data, according to analysis by cyber security and data protection consultancy CSS Assure.
According to research by comparison site Finder, it is estimated that UK consumers will spend £3.95bn on Black Friday (25 November) and Cyber Monday (28 November) purchases this year.
So you are confident that your own systems and procedures are secure…but what a lot of businesses and organisations forget is that there are potential vulnerabilities in their supply chain too.
Two recent large scale data breaches have again highlighted the importance of a robust cyber security infrastructure but they have also shown that even the big players can get hacked.
