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Jan 14, 2025 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Stuart Davey
The proposed new “payment prevention regime” would apply to all potential ransomware payments from the UK and forms part of a broader package of potential new ransomware-related legislation the Home Office opened a consultation on, on Tuesday.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Christian Toon |Stuart Davey
The EU’s second Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) will strengthen existing cybersecurity risk management and incident reporting obligations that have applied under the original NIS regime and extend them to thousands of other businesses. However, as we explore below, some EU member states look set to miss the 17 October deadline for implementing the directive into their national legislation.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Katherine Metcalfe |Stuart Davey
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Malcolm Dowden |Stuart Davey
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has signalled its intention to fine a software provider more than £6 million in what would be the first example of it imposing a monetary penalty notice on a processor under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Data protection law expert Malcolm Dowden of Pinsent Masons said the case highlights how the GDPR applies directly to processors, unlike was the case under its predecessor legislation.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Stuart Davey
Cyber risk expert Stuart Davey of Pinsent Masons said news of the proposed new legislation comes amidst a heightened and evolving threat environment for organisations and as policymakers in other jurisdictions move to strengthen their own cybersecurity frameworks.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Laura Gillespie |Stuart Davey
Cyber risk experts Stuart Davey and Laura Gillespie of Pinsent Masons were commenting on the high level of cyber risk faced by the UK’s infrastructure sector, following the UK parliament’s recent inquiry into cyber resilience of the UK’s critical national infrastructure.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Stuart Davey
Agencies from 18 countries, including the US, endorsed new UK-developed guidelines on AI cyber security, led by GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre. The guidelines aim to raise the cyber security levels of artificial intelligence and help ensure that it is designed, developed and deployed securely. Stuart Davey, cybersecurity expert at Pinsent Masons, said: “These global guidelines, led by the UK, mark a significant step in the ongoing AI discussions.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Laura Gillespie |Stuart Davey
Businesses found to have breached UK data protection laws when falling victim to cyber attacks could receive lower fines in respect of those infringements if they engage appropriately with the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), under a new agreement forged by the NCSC and the UK’s data protection authority.
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Jun 8, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Stuart Davey
Ofcom has published revised guidance (70-page / 842KB PDF) relevant to incident reporting obligations ‘operators of essential services’ in the digital infrastructure sub-sector are subject to under the Network and Information Security (NIS) Regulations 2018. The revised guidance reflects changes brought in by the Network and Information Systems Regulations (Amendment and Transitional Provision etc.) Regulations 2020 (the Amended NIS Regulations).
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Apr 19, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Stuart Davey
Dowden said: “Disclosing this threat is not something that we do lightly. This is an unprecedented warning for businesses. We have never publicly highlighted the threat from these kinds of groups attempting such attacks before. And I should stress that we do not think that they currently have the capability to cause widespread damage to our infrastructure in the UK.
