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Privacy benchmark for educational institutions: aware of your privacy risks
April 21, 2021 - Not before has there been so much interest by hackers in personal data at educational institutions. This heightened interest is partly due to COVID-19, which left the education sector relying primarily on digital means overnight. This has made it extra important for educational institutions to correctly process and secure the many personal data that is collected. With a benchmark in which we expose the privacy risks at educational institutions, Mazars wants to contribute to this social challenge in the education sector.
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Would you like to know more about this privacy benchmark? Please feel free to contact Jan Matto, Partner IT Audit & Advisory, by e-mail or by phone: +31 (0)88 277 13 99, Marissa de Beeld, Privacy and Compliance Specialist, by e-mail or by phone: +31 (0)88 277 16 16 or Ivar Brouwer, Sector Manager Education and Senior Manager Audit, by e-mail or by phone: +31 (0)88 277 21 21. They will be happy to assist you.
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Digital trust & digital assurance
The ongoing digitisation of our society is a fact. The digital connection of organisations, individuals and devices creates mutual dependencies and vulnerabilities. As digitisation gets more and more involved in our lives, ICT resources become more and more remote in terms of hardware. Both tendencies increase the demand for assurance and the removal of uncertainties.
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The risks of data breaches at institutions
June 3, 2021 - The headlines don't lie. On a frequent basis, new reports about data breaches and hacks at educational institutions appear in the media. These range from universi-ties in large cities to elementary school in sparsely populated towns. Data leaks occur in primary, secondary and higher education. The way in which a leak occurs varies from situation to situation. In this article we discuss...
Efficiency in perspective for the education sector
Society's need for accountability for the use of public funds has increased sharply in recent years. This is also the case in the education sector. In addition, the pressure of work and the digitisation of administrative processes have long been a major theme within education. With the 'Efficiency in Perspective' campaign, we are responding to this theme with three different sub-themes.
Webinar 'Privacy voor onderwijsinstellingen'
De coronacrisis onderstreept nog maar eens het vitale belang van internetverbindingen en de daaraan gekoppelde IT-systemen. Nederland werkt massaal thuis en ook onderwijsinstellingen dienen online lessen aan te bieden. Door deze ontwikkelingen is het extra belangrijk om voldoende aandacht te hebben voor privacy in relatie tot digitaal thuisonderwijs.