Organisations "failing at the basics" of IT security, warns ICO

Danny Palmer
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'Protecting personal data in online services: learning from the mistakes of others' sets out best practice for protecting data

Failure to encrypt data, the use of out of date software and poorly designed networks are among what the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) deems to be the top eight data security lapses it ha...

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