Issue - meetings
Cyber Security
Meeting: 13/12/2021 - Audit Committee (Item 366)
Report of Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Director (Finance and Resources) attached
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Minutes:
The Committee received a report of the Executive Director (Transformation) that set out the Council’s current position in respect of its cyber security arrangements, given its reliance on ICT to be able to function effectively, including the safeguards around remote working in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and security issues that had recently been encountered by other local authorities.
The Director of Digital and ICT reported that the Council was currently focussed on addressing and reducing cyber risk through appropriate counter and protective measures and ensuring that system architecture was secure by design, to support the current approach to cyber security. The Director of Digital and ICT responded to a number of questions raised by members of the Committee.
On consideration of the report, the Committee encouraged the Executive Director (Transformation) to ensure that the regular exercising of the Council’s current business continuity arrangements was undertaken as a matter of priority.
Resolved:
That the action taken to enhance the security of the Council’s ICT environment, the challenges currently being encountered and the work that is being undertaken to address these, be noted.
Meeting: 20/10/2021 - Audit Committee (Item 7.)
Report of the Executive Director (Finance and Resources) attached
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