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To gain a better understanding of the industry’s resilience the FCA surveyed 296 firms during 2017 and 2018 to assess their technology and cyber capabilities. The survey looked at key areas such as governance, delivery of change management, managing third party risks and effective cyber defences. Firms self-assessed their capabilities and the FCA then analysed the responses for each firm and across sectors.
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Technology remains a key theme of this year’s survey, bringing both opportunities and challenges. The challenge for many is in moving technological developments from research and piloting into full scale implementation. Cyber- attacks are becoming increasingly common and Boards now see this as a much greater and real risk to their business. This presents a major threat for the legal sector, as firms hold significant client funds and information that is attractive to fraudsters and other criminals.
The main categories of serious offences include fraud, money laundering and other economic crime, bribery and corruption and cybercrime. Economic crime is a broad category of illegal activity, including fraud, corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion. There were 3.3 million fraud incidents in the year ending June 2018, amounting to almost a third of all crimes. The overall scale of economic crime is estimated to be £14.4 billion per year, with the cost to businesses and the public sector from organised fraud no less than £5.9 billion per year.
This report provides an overview of cryptoassets and the underlying technology, assesses the associated risks and potential benefits, and sets out the path forward with respect to regulation in the UK. It brings together existing work and new analysis carried out by the Taskforce, and has benefited from the contributions of stakeholders across the DLT and cryptoasset sector.
The Code for Crown Prosecutors is a public document, issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions, that sets out the general principles Crown Prosecutors should follow when they make decisions on cases. The revisions to the code include considering disclosable evidence pre-charge, more stringent conditions on how The Threshold Test is applied and a greater focus on CPS role in recovering proceeds of crime.
Fraud, in the widest sense of ‘deception for gain’ is as old as human society. Nor is there anything new and unexpected about the way new technologies empower the fraudster along with the rest of us. It happened with money and the earliest financial products, then the telegraph, the railway and the telephone, all long before the internet dismantled our fraud defences. So why are we still so bad at seeing fraud coming and trying to design it out of our great innovations? That is the question at the heart of this special report. It’s not an easy question to answer but it is time for all of us – in business, politics and wider society – to ask it with the utmost seriousness.
Cifas has joined with Forensic Pathways to give insight to whether data compromise is due to online behaviour on the surface web, or whether it is an amalgamation of what criminals have collated and sold via the dark web. This research also provides insight as to what personal information is available on the Internet, and we explore some of the methods used to obtain it. With identity fraud levels at an all-time high, the need to look at how criminals gain access to personal data is essential in trying to develop successful preventative measures.
The Cyber Security Breaches Survey is a quantitative and qualitative survey of UK businesses and, for the first time in this 2018 release, charities. The quantitative survey was carried out in winter 2017 and the qualitative survey in early 2018. It helps these organisations to understand the nature and significance of the cyber security threats they face, and what others are doing to stay secure. It also supports the Government to shape future policy in this area.
Explore the actions taken by privacy regulators around the world for infringements of privacy laws during 2017. The fourth annual Privacy and Security Enforcement Tracker reviews the key regulatory enforcement cases in the UK and provide a synopsis of key privacy issues and trends for 34 other countries. The UK report contains details of every enforcement imposed by the ICO during 2017 (whist the Data Protection Act 1998 was still in force). There were 91 enforcements in total.
Attacks on business email have evolved. Have your defences? Criminals are increasingly exploiting both human and technological weaknesses to defraud companies through their email systems. Effective defence against these attacks requires a sophisticated approach. Proofpoint's Stopping Email Fraud ebook outlines the security tools companies need to protect against imposters, phishers and non-malware threats.
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