Many organizations have instructed their employees to work from home after the implementation of the COVID-19 measures. The availability of working from home facilities has suddenly become critical for business continuity. The NCSC offers a handy facsheet to check availability of your home working facilities. Read more on this subject here: https://www.ncsc.nl/documenten/publicaties/2020/april/1/factsheet-uw-thuiswerkfaciliteiten-zijn-nu-onmisbaar
NSCS provides guidelines for using video calling to keep in touch with family, friends, and colleagues. If you are new to video conferencing, this guide will help you use these services safely. Read more about this here: https://www.ncsc.gov. uk / guidance / video-conferencing-services-using-them-securely
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity shares its recommendations for improving the security of passwords and authentication methods. View these at: https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/enisa-news/tips-for-secure-user-authentication
Tips from the Digital Trust Center to avoid vulnerabilities:– run the security updates;– check the internal logging for traces of abuse;– analysis of the logging of the VPN environment;– delete all existing VPN accounts and recreate usernames with strong passwords;– consider implementing two-factor authentication for users. Read more about this here: https://www.digitaltrustcenter.nl/nieuws/wees- alert-for-vpn vulnerabilities
The NCSC recommends taking precautions if employees at your organization largely start working from home because of COVID-19 (Corona). It is then important to pay attention to the points below and to take additional measures if necessary. Think of a secure connection to your company network, strong authentication, updates, antivirus, incident reporting, etc. Read more […]
734/5000 The risks of IT failure in hospitals must be better identified. For the provision of good care, hospitals are increasingly dependent on the proper functioning of the ICT to prevent unsafe situations for the patient. This is evident from the report “Patient safety in the event of IT failure in hospitals”. The Council provides […]
For a long time it was possible to read the previous login details of the password manager LastPass by sending the user to a site with incorrect code. The researcher managed to retrieve the credentials of the previous site that someone had visited. Read more about this: https://www.pcmag.com/news/370778/lastpass-extension-bug-can-leak-passwords-to-malicious-websi
Companies are taking increasingly more measures to defend themselves against external cyber attacks. Medium-sized companies in particular are catching up with the introduction of authentication via software or hardware tokens. In addition, the number of ICT security incidents is decreasing due to an attack from outside. Statistics Netherlands reports this on the basis of the […]
An investigation by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DDPA) showed that dozens of hospital employees had unnecessarily inspected the medical file of a well-known Dutch person. The AP imposes a fine of 460,000 euros on the Hagaziekenhuis for insufficient security. In terms of technical and organizational measures, the Hospital has taken insufficient security measures in […]
Minister Bruno Bruins (Healthcare) wants the Dutch Data Protection Authority to investigate whether the medical data of hundreds of thousands of Dutch patients is kept safe. The AD revealed on Saturday that hospitals have recently started to have patient data stored in the Google cloud. Price experts and MPs are critical of the choice for […]