DATA LEAK

 Data breaches posses huge risks to organisations and they are required to report incident within 72hours of discovery. The breach needs to be contained as soon the organisation realises a data breach has occurred and identify how the incident occurred so that further damage could be mitigated.in some instances, individuals whose data is breached will need to notified about the situation. Individuals will be advised to change their passwords and be aware of any unusual activity on tier account. Lastly the supervisory authority will be alerted about the incident which they will then investigate the organisation which was breached to find out whether the breach could have prevented.

In 2015 TalkTalk had a significant data breach led to a major change in data protection policies to make sure they comply with the Data Protection Act 2018, which saw the UK implanting the GDPR.

 

Whitelisting vs Blacklisting

Whitelisting ensures that only trusted entities will be able to access your network, this will include Ip addresses email addresses and applications. A whitelist will allow the forementioned to pass through the firewall while blocking others from doing so. Blacklisting and the other hand is a entities that are blocked from accessing your network by the firewall such an example being known threats while still allowing general access

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