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Cyber Security Awareness

Each year ICAEW marks global Cyber Security Awareness month with dedicated resources addressing the latest issues and how to protect your business.

Philippa Lamb with Peter Davenport and Michael Hoare

How to bounce back from a cyber attack

  • Podcast
  • 14 Oct 2025
In this episode, we discuss how prepared organisations really are for cyber attacks, what to do if and when your business is affected, and how to manage the communications challenges.
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Recovering from a cyber attack: Microlise

  • Article
  • 20 Oct 2025
When fleet management company Microlise suffered a major cyber attack, CEO Nadeem Raza says that swift action was taken, but the incident served as an important learning experience for the whole team.
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The seven essentials of a good cyber strategy

  • Article
  • 15 Oct 2025
Businesses can draw upon a range of recognised standards to lay the foundations of a cyber strategy – but keeping your organisation secure doesn’t stop there. Cyber security and GDPR consultant Paul Rolison outlines best practice measures for creating an effective cyber strategy.
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Essentials CPD virtual cyber security course

Hackers almost breached this firm’s systems. Here’s what they learned

  • Article
  • 13 Oct 2025
Security experts at a mid-tier audit firm knew they had to act swiftly when they discovered an attempt on their own system, in which their servers were almost breached by cyber criminals, and used it as a lesson to bolster their own security and training across the business.
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Attacks

Cyber security biggest risk as businesses reel from major attacks

  • Article
  • 23 Sep 2025
Annual poll of Chief Internal Auditors highlights cyber security as the number one risk, with digital threats intensifying following attacks on European airports over the weekend and recent cyber breaches at M&S, the Co-op, Harrods, The North Face and Jaguar Land Rover.
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Internal auditors can help boards tackle ‘poly-crisis’
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Four cyber security lessons from M&S and other breaches

  • Article
  • 15 Oct 2025
With so many more high-profile cyber attacks taking place, it pays to learn from others’ experiences. What can you learn from attacks such as the one on M&S?
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