Cyber Security

With criminals using ever increasing sophisticated and elaborate methods to exploit any weakness in a company’s security system, CITS has collated specialist booklets and guidance documents produced by specialist organisations such as the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), London’s Metropolitan Police, etc, which you can download for free.

You may wish to circulate them to all interested parties within your organisation.

By getting your colleagues and staff members to adopt and adhere to these documents, will help minimise the risk of you, your colleagues or your business becoming a victim to this type of crime.

Advice from the National Cyber Security Centre

The National Cyber Security Centre’s new website reporting tool allows people to send them a link from websites which they think are trying to scam the public, regardless of how they got to the site.

The NCSC – which is a part of GCHQ – then analyses the site, and if found to be malicious a notice may be issued to the hosting provider for the site to be removed, preventing members of the public falling victim in future.

The NCSC has previously highlighted the problem of scam websites, including fake news pages where celebrities such as Sir Richard Branson appear to be endorsing investment schemes. Links to these pages were subsequently removed by the NCSC.

The website reporting tool is the latest way in which the public can help the NCSC counter online scams. Last year, the NCSC created the pioneering Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) where the public can forward suspected scam emails to report@phishing.gov.uk

If the emails are found to contain links to malicious websites, they will then be taken down by the service, which has received more than 6.5million reports of malicious emails and resulted in the takedown of 50,500 online scams since its launch in April 2020.

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