Organisations helping most vulnerable in society offered free cyber security support

SMALL charities and legal aid firms are being offered free cyber security assistance from the nation’s leading experts to help them protect the vulnerable people they support. The National Cyber Security Centre – a part of GCHQ – has launched the new Funded Cyber Essentials Programme, which offers some small organisations in high-risk sectors practical support at no cost to help put baseline cyber security controls in place. The information held by these organisations can be highly sensitive – for example, data about domestic abuse survivors could be exposed if…

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