targeted than smaller ones. 42 percent of medium to large-sized companies were affected as compared to 18 percent of micro- small enterprises.
Cyber Essentials accreditation programme The government is offering an ambitious and helpful ' Cyber Essentials ' accreditation programme for enterprises which aims to help companies strengthen their IT systems, implement the latest cyber security practices and effectively handle and protect customer data. To ensure more companies join the programme, the government has mandated that those without accreditation will not be able to bid for government contracts. Employee cyber hygiene As far as cyber hygiene of employees is concerned, there has been little improvement. A recent report from security firm Bomgar has revealed that: As many as 69% of employees stay logged on to either their laptop or company accounts after work hours 57% send work files to their personal e-mail accounts 46% tell colleagues their passwords 53% use unsecured Wi-Fi to access online data and in the UK Only 44% of companies have reviewed their policies on third party access in the last two years. On a positive note, the SailPoint survey shows that 87% of enterprises agree that it is important to have strong identity governance controls in place across their organisation’s entire IT infrastructure. Around 55% of enterprises have also confirmed that they will invest the maximum in identity governance in the next year.
For more information about protecting against cyber threats, read the government’s Cyber Essentials guidance and visit the National Cyber Security Centre’s website .
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Use of labour providers: advice on due diligence 23 May 2017
If you use labour supplied by a third party then HMRC’s updated guidance will help you understand how to safeguard your business from financial and reputational risk whilst maintaining the flexible workforce you need.
HMRC continues to find non-compliance, illegal working practices and fraud in labour supply chains across business sectors and is committed to tackling these issues in order to fund essential UK services, stop modern slavery, and create a level playing field for all those businesses complying.
Businesses should protect themselves by undertaking checks to understand:
where their workers are coming from
how they are being paid
the legitimacy of those arrangements.
Businesses need to undertake checks within 4 key areas to ensure:
their supplier of labour is legitimate and has no history of non-compliance they understand and approve the labour supply chain agency workers are paid their contractual rate and it complies with the National Living Wage (NLW)/National Minimum Wage (NMW) they are doing all they can to eradicate modern slavery and illegal working in their supply chains.
For full details read the updated guidance: HMRC’s Use of labour providers: advice on due diligence .
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