Cyber apprentices celebrate success and secure permanent jobs with Indelible Data

Aidan Collins has completed a cyber security apprenticeship and won a permanent role with Indelible Data at just 19 years of age. Aidan joined the company straight from West Coast Sixth Form in Workington, Cumbria, with a passion to pursue a career in the cyber sector. He has accepted a permanent job as a Cyber …

Completing Cyber Essentials just got easier!

Cyber Essentials applicants can now add helpers to their portal account to help with their submissions. The update is significant, especially for large organisations who require more than one staff member to work on their project or for those companies who require assistance from their managed service provider. It has coincided with the introduction of …

Prepare for Windows 10 end of support

Indelible Data offers a range of packages for Cyber Essentials certification. Windows 10 will reach end of life in October 2025 unless you have purchased extended support, Microsoft has revealed. This will mean users will have to update to Windows 11 says Cyber Compliance Technician Aidan Collins. For some, this will force the purchase of …

GDPR still ‘fit for the job’ after record-breaking Facebook fine

Facebook received a £1bn fine last month, the biggest GDPR penalty ever issued by the European Data Protection Board writes Cyber Security Technician Tom Boughton. It was imposed after repeated violations of the General Data Protection Regulation, caused by Meta IE’s transfer of EU citizen data to the US for storage and processing. While the …

Team building for Brain Tumour Research

We wanted to make our latest staff outing not only a team building jolly but also something that gave back to the community. So we chose to raise money for Brain Tumour Research as part of Wear A Hat day by cycling and walking the equivalent of Cumbria’s circumference. Thanks to the generosity of clients, …

Impact of Artificial Intelligence on software patching

Indelible Data offers a range of packages for Cyber Essentials certification.   With the influx of people using Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as the revolutionary “ChatGPT”, for a multitude of reasons, it was only a matter of time before criminals started to use it to help develop malicious software, writes Cyber Scheme Team Member Jason …

Is it easy to pass Cyber Essentials?

Indelible Data offers a range of packages for Cyber Essentials certification. There is a common misconception that Cyber Essentials is an easy to pass ‘box ticking’ exercise that does not hold its value in relation to threats. In reality, the certification can be challenging for those that are unprepared or have minimal IT support, writes …

Cyber Essentials Montpellier – What You Need To Know

The much-anticipated Montpellier release of the Cyber Essentials questionnaire has arrived, and now we’ve had time to assess its merits, our Lead Assessor, Tony Wilson, will guide you through additions, relaxations, and even changes that affect responses to the current Evendine questionnaire to pave the way to Montpellier on April 24th 2023.  Montpellier is the …

Update from LastPass on 2022 breach?

Two months on… should we still be worried about the LastPass breach? Over the Christmas period, popular password manager LastPass announced that hackers had gained access to customer’s password vaults writes Tyson McGuirk. This follows on from an attack in August 2022 where access was gained to a developer account. It is believed information obtained …

Cyber Essentials challenge for Special Educational Needs schools

Indelible Data offers a range of packages for Cyber Essentials certification.   Cyber Essentials can be a challenging certification to achieve for schools that operate Special Educational Needs (SEN) facilities explains Aidan Collins. With limited public guidance for SEN schools relating to Cyber Essentials, the following blog aims to help those who may have concerns …