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Cyber Resilience

What is Cyber Resilience?

In simple terms, cyber resilience is a measure of how well an organisation can manage a cyber attack or breach while continuing to operate effectively.

Achieving cyber resilience means that, as a minimum, your setting will be able to deliver core education activities in the face of a range of cyber incident types and to continue to carry out school business effectively, securely, and with prompt recovery.

Cyber resilience involves identifying core school activities, preparing for cyber incidents, responding promptly and effectively when incidents occur and safeguarding your school community.

Cyber Essentials can help you reduce the likelihood of cyber attacks and provide free cyber liability insurance. Data Security and Cyber security are an integral part of cyber resilience, but resilience is an ongoing journey.

The Education Data Hub team offer a range services to support you on your journey to cyber resilience.

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Data Security

Data Security is the protection of data from accidental or deliberate, unauthorised change, destruction or disclosure.

Data security can cover hardcopies, such as files in filing cabinets and disclosure of information through images and unique identifiers, such as your IP address.

Data security also covers secure data transmissions.

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Data security forms part of data protection.
Cyber Resilience - Cyber Security

Cyber Security

Cyber Security is the protection of computers, electronic communications, systems, networks and the data those devices and systems contain.

Cyber security aims to protect information integrity, accuracy, and confidentiality, whilst ensuring that systems are always available.

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Cyber security supports data security and forms and forms part of cyber resilience.
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Cyber Resilience

Cyber Resilience is the protection of data and systems to ensure reliable, consistent and secure access to systems and data.

Resilience also encompases the need for organisations to:

  • risk assess systems
  • mitigate potential risks
  • respond to incidents
  • recover from attack or disaster promptly

The aim is to preserve data and system integrity and the confidentiality or personal and organisational data.

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Cyber reslience includes data protection, data security and cyber security.

Cyber Security

Cyber security is the protection of devices, systems and networks by implementing measures focused on preventing theft, damage, information disclosure or corruption.

Cyber security centres on keeping unauthorised persons out. Security can involve one layer or many layers. A ‘layered’ approach is more secure, but nothing is 100% effective.

Implementing Cyber Essentials basic controls will prevent the majority of unsophisticated attacks, but prevention is never guaranteed.

Cyber security measures alone are not enough to protect and prepare settings from the escalating number and severity of attacks.

Example Threat

Example Security Methods

Unauthorised access

Unique usernames and passwords / encryption / software keys / policy

Theft

Site security barriers / locks / secure storage / CCTV

Data corruption

Anti-virus / malware protection / firewalls

Data disclosure

Identity verification / role specific access / digital signatures

Cyber security forms part of cyber resilience.

Cyber Resilience

Cyber resilience enables your setting to continuously deliver education and to carry out school business effectively, securely and with prompt recovery in the event of an incident.

Cyber resilience involves preparing and responding promptly and effectively when incidents occur and adapting to ensure business continuity and enable recovery.

Cyber Essentials can help you reduce the likelihood of cyber-attacks and provide free cyber liability insurance. Cyber security is an integral part of cyber resilience, but resilience is an ongoing journey.

Key factors which affect Cyber Resilience:

Compliance: Failure to use adequate technical and organisational controls to protect sensitive data can lead to breaches of the data protection act 2018 and UK GDPR.

Culture: The belief that cyber security is an IT issue, not relevant to educational settings and a sense that cyber incidents are unlikely can lead to poor cyber hygiene.

Cost: A lack of investment in data security can lead to escalating recovery costs, reputational damage and fines relating to breaches.

Change: Failure to plan appropriately and assess new systems prior to implementation increases the risk of vulnerabilities and breaches.

Continuity: Failure to plan for an incident and test the plan leads to difficulties in recovery and extended recovery timescales.

Cover: Settings without insurance cover could be left without financial support to respond and recover from incidents.

Cyber Resilience Resources

These resources were produced in collaboration with the National Cyber Security Centre as part of a project to raise cyber security standards in educational settings across the UK.

The project concluded in March 2022.

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