Guest Teaching Seminar – Reducing the attack surface with Records Management The University of Manchester – 20th May 2020 Guest Teaching On Wednesday I guest taught at The University of Manchester for Professor Daniel Dresner (Prof Danny). Last year I
Retention Explained
Records Retention Explained Retention is not the wizardry that everyone thinks that it is. It’s to help you demonstrate that you shall retain information only for the specified retention periods set out in a policy and shall then arrange for
Cyber WP – Episode 12
Cyber Warrior Princess Podcast – Episode 12 I had a really exciting time last week where I got the chance to join the Cyber Warrior Princess Podcasters. The Cyber Warrior Princess Podcast is created by Becky Pinkard and Dr Victoria
Appearance on the Advent IM Podcast: Records Management, Infosec, Privacy and Data Protection.
A few weeks back I had the great opportunity to be on a star-studded podcast line up with the lovely Mike Gillespie. Chatting with me were Rowenna Fielding and Sarah Clarke. The topic of the podcast was Records Management,
Ownership only exists under Records Management
A few weeks ago a query came up about Subject Access Requests and whether or not you would give out documentation that was in your file that belonged to someone else and even I got my ropes taffled and nearly
Appearance on the Human Factor Podcast (Ep60)
I am truly a very lucky individual. In my current career which has in so far spanned over a decade, I have had the privilege of getting to know some wonderful people however, this time, I’ve had the luck of getting
GDPR does not change retention periods…
For those of you looking at the Accuracy Principle (Art 5(1)(d) and Storage Limitation Principle (Art 5(1)(e)) and wondering where to start updating your retention schedule, stop right there. You’re already way ahead of a lot of organisations. In relation
Information Asset Registers; what are they good for? Absolutely… everything
But they are not quick and they are not necessarily easy. This depends on how big they become and how much information you choose to put into it. Information Assets are the lifeblood of any organisation, without information a business
My records being up to date has potentially saved my life.
Under the Data Protection Act 1998, organisations are required to keep the information they hold about you, up to date, accurate and relevant and but also not excessively however, at times organisations need your help to do this. An example
Oh it’s fine…we can just scan it!
I’m a scanning enthusiast. I hate paper; paper hates me, demonstrable by my current amount of paper cuts. However, scanning is not the answer to all your problems. It’s a short term fix to a long term problem unless it’s