Lessons from Charities and Upcoming Charities Workshop this Thursday

Welcome to this week's Black Arrow Cyber Tip Tuesday.

This week, Black Arrow will host a workshop on cyber security for charities. This is part of our pro-bono work with charities and the Guernsey Community Foundation.

As research, we have worked with a few charities to look at their main information and cyber security risks, and the solutions that they can implement either free of charge or at low cost. 

We have seen that a charity is effectively a small business, where the team uses information that needs to be safeguarded. But a charity’s information can be very confidential where it relates to the health or private lives of its members.

The charity’s team, including employees and volunteers, might not be aware of information security or be at ease using technology.

For example, employees and volunteers often receive sensitive information at home using their own computer, and then download it onto that computer and print it out to take with them when visiting the member.

There is sometimes no control over what happens to that sensitive printed document and how it is stored or disposed of. 

Equally, the charity’s employees and volunteers need to be alert to the risks of using online technology and the tactics of criminals who try to get access to their computer and information.

At the workshop, we will be looking at these risks and ways to improve information and cyber security at no cost or low cost.

For more information, visit the Guernsey Community Foundation website (foundation.gg) or our website blackarrowcyber.com. And contact us if you would like to be part of our pro-bono work.

If you are a charity and would like to attend Thursday's free workshop email joni@foundation.gg to book your place