Data Protection Diaries

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The Data Protection Diaries offers real-world insight into data protection from the perspective of an experienced and engaging Data Protection Officer, Richard Merrygold @ iSTORM.

29/10/2024

Last week I found myself feeling a little overwhelmed. Between running a business, being a father, husband, family man, friend and dog dad, I started to feel like I’d lost who I am. I’d stopped finding the time to do the things that I want to do. Even writing that feels selfish, “things I want to do”, like it shouldn’t be all about me. What I realised last week was that, if I don’t make any time for me, it starts to have a real effect on both my personal wellbeing & all the other aspects of my life. So this weekend, i drank some gin, danced, played video games, spent some time with the family and generally made some time for me.It’s not selfish to need to do things for you, it’s essential! Look after yourselves and let’s grab this week by the proverbials and get it done!

17/10/2024

Instagram making changes to protect teens from exploitation epidemic, a good start or too little too late?

12/10/2024

Password guidance is changing!! Are you ready?

03/10/2024

Welcome to iSTORM® Privacy-Security-Pentesting, for those of you who are new, here's a little insight into what we do as a consultancy. For more information on how we can support your business, check out www.istormsolutions.co.uk or email [email protected]

20/05/2024

One of the most valuable tools when working as a DPO or indeed in any compliance role is to have a good committee or forum of key stakeholders. Meeting as regularly as suits the needs of the business, monthly or quarterly, the committee meeting is the golden opportunity to get your stakeholders together, to provide updates, guidance and discuss what’s working and what’s been challenging over the last period.

A strong committee with a strong set of key stakeholders can bring huge long term benefits to your organisation! I can’t recommend it enough!

07/05/2024

A real life lesson in preventative and detective controls for me today. It’s easy to fall into the idea that you’re ‘safe’ or not a target but most attacks are simply opportunistic and look for a weakness: Last night, that weakness was my unlocked car!

30/04/2024

Consistency vs insanity. They’re almost the same to me, although I’m learning that being consistent doesn’t always drive me to insanity. I often find myself looking for something new, shiny, interesting, which is why the concept of consistency feels like insanity. That being said, consistency is serving me very well as demonstrated by today’s ramblings from The Talking Head! www.istormsolutions.co.uk

24/04/2024

Sometimes it’s easy to bash the ICO, a company that’s suffered a breach, a poor privacy notice, a bad marketing email but sometimes we also need to put ourselves in their shoes and ask ‘what would we have done differently’ if we were them. If we had their skills, knowledge, resources, finances would we have really done anything different or is there a way we can help others so it doesn’t happen to them.

Our job is to educate and empower our clients, often using real world examples. Learning from mistakes is always going to be more beneficial than bashing those who make them!

www.istormsolutions.co.uk

18/08/2023

A short story on why it’s so important to make sure you never use the same password for multiple accounts and why you should take notice of whether your data has ever been breached, even if it was a long time ago! And before you ask, no it wasn’t my account and no, I won’t tell you whose account it was……

Some actually important life lessons in this one which makes a change 😉

25/07/2023

Business revenue and culture revenue are very different but they both have the same end goal, growth. It’s easier to measure business revenue, what a team member is worth in numbers but not so easy to measure what their culture revenue is. A strong, safe, secure culture is a revenue generator in itself. Strong teams drive strong growth and we’re lucky to be building a hell of a team!

iSTORM - Privacy - Security - Pentesting

09/06/2023

Todays life lesson: Nobody and I mean nobody, really knows what they are doing. We have plans, strategies, ideas, ideologies but underneath it all we’re all running around in the dark. We don’t know what we don’t know and that’s ok. It’s ok to not know what you’re doing, that’s how we learn, that’s how we grow! 🌎💪🏼👇

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