Cyber Security: Looking inwards

Did you miss the piece from Gary Henderson? The ANME Ambassador and director of IT at Millfield School, discusses cyber security in the summer issue of Education Executive…

Often when looking at cyber security and by association at data protection, we focus on the external risks.

We focus on:

•managing vulnerabilities which an external threat might use to access our systems and data

•on managing and monitoring the areas on our network where an external threat may gain access

•managing the security of our data solutions in relation to attempts at external access.

We look outwards for the dangers, and I suspect, given all we constantly see in the press regarding organisations suffering externally driven cyber incidents, this is becoming all the more common. Yet a recent article regarding a disgruntled ex-IT staff member got me thinking that maybe we aren’t sufficiently considering the internal risks.

Read more in Education Executive magazine here.