Cyber safety
Safety & Health Practitioner
SHP hears from Mike Stevens, CEO of Praxis42 on cyber safety, its link to health and safety risk management and tips on implementing online security.
Mike Stevens, Chartered Safety Practitioner and CEO of Praxis42
I am often asked by clients what measures we have in place at Praxis to help guard against online attacks and what they could be doing differently.
As an organisation, and probably like many of you reading this, we have experienced attacks in recent times. These have ranged from phishing, where we have received emails from seemingly authentic sources asking us to follow links and provide information, to attackers attempting to infiltrate our internal communications and imitate our finance team to try to extract payment details.
Thankfully, these attacks have all been unsuccessful. But from these experiences we have learned that there are many similarities between the methodology we follow in health and safety management and the procedures that ensure robust cyber security.
In short, the approach needs to be constantly reviewed. When we conduct a risk assessment or risk profile for an organisation or location, we identify…
