With government support, a forum is being set up ‘for the insurance industry to share information and best practise’. A ‘Cyber Essentials’ certification scheme has been set up by the government ‘to guide businesses in protecting themselves against cyber threats’. 

Free course

On another government site, a ’10 Steps to Cyber Security’ programme urges businesses to define and communicate ‘your Board’s Information Risk Management Regime’. Lawyers and accountants are being helped to understand the role they need to play through a specialist government course which will help them protect themselves and ‘will also enable lawyers and accountants to advise their clients’. The free course - provided through the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills - gives ‘advice on how to safeguard digital information, raise awareness of cyber issues amongst clients and gives examples of how to deal with issues such as information breaches in the workplace’.

Some ’81% of large organisations had an information security breach in the past year’, according to the UK government.

Sources: CyberEssentials, Marsh, 10 Steps, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills