It is time to take information security seriously

08/07/2019

British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m for a breach of its security systems. The ICO said a variety of information was compromised by poor security arrangements at the company.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force last year and was the biggest shake-up to data privacy in 20 years.

The penalty imposed on BA is the first one to be made public since those rules were introduced and amounts to 1.5% of its worldwide turnover in 2017, less than the possible maximum of 4%.

At OCM we take data seriously. We have stringent data wiping procedures in-house and hold Cyber Essentials as well as ISO 27001 Information Security Management System. For more on our data wiping capabilities and how OCM can help ensure your data is certified erased please click here.

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It is time to take information security seriously

08/07/2019

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