Protecting Data When Home Working

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Protecting Data when Home Working Remote work brings flexibility—but also new risks to your data security. Our training provides your staff with the knowledge to protect sensitive information, comply with data laws, and safeguard your organisation's reputation while working from home.

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Overview

Safeguarding Sensitive Information is no Longer Confined to Office Walls

With the rise of remote working, safeguarding sensitive information is no longer confined to office walls - what are you doing to protect your employees, customers, and reputation? Compliance with data protection laws for remote workers is critical in mitigating risks and maintaining trust. This is why Legal Island has created a concise, 30-minute course designed to protect you and your organisation effectively.

Data breaches in organisations are often accidental and stem from employee error or a lack of awareness. The shift to remote working has amplified our reliance on technology for communication and collaboration, creating new vulnerabilities that can compromise your business's security and reputation.

What's Included

What's Included: Protecting Data when Home Working

This Protecting Data when Home Working course will help your employees understand the essential elements of protecting data when they work outside the office. It is important that your employees are at the centre of driving a privacy culture across the organisation to ensure protection and compliance.

This course was designed by a team of cyber security experts specifically for organisations in Northern Ireland who have employees working from home (or remotely).

Topics covered include:

Why data protection is important
The law relating to data protection
What is cyber security
How to protect your organisation from a cyber attack
What to do if you discover a data breach

Should you have a particular need to brand or tailor any of our courses to your specific requirements, that is no problem at all. We offer a full bespoke service in-house. If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to contact our eLearning Sales Manager, Debbie Wilson - debbie@legal-island.com.

Importance of Training

Why Is Data Protection Training Important for Home Workers?

Remote working introduces unique challenges for data security. Unlike a controlled office environment, home offices or public spaces often lack robust cybersecurity measures. Employees working from home may unknowingly expose sensitive data by:

Using unsecured Wi-Fi networks
Falling victim to phishing or ransomware attacks
Failing to safeguard physical documents or devices

A report by Microsoft details some frightening statistics on Northern Ireland's security awareness, with 43% of employees admitting to getting no data protection training in the last 12 months. This underscores the urgency of equipping your staff with the knowledge and skills to protect both themselves and your organisation.

Making the move at short notice from your trusted office environment to homeworking can create security risks, making homeworkers susceptible to falling for scams such as phishing emails.

Who Needs this Training

Who needs Protecting Data when Home Working training?

It is vital that all employees who work from home (or remotely) know how to protect your organisation from cyber attacks and understand their obligation under data protection legislation to protect the data they handle against:

Unauthorised and unlawful processing
Accidental loss
Destruction
Damage

Course Duration

How long does this course take?

This online training course will take no longer than 30 minutes to complete including an assessment. Each member of staff will receive their own personalised certificate upon successful completion.

Key Statistics

Why learn with Legal Island?

We take huge pride in the training we deliver across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Our key statistics show:

97%

of users said they found the courses beneficial for their organisation

96%

of users said they found the courses convenient and easy to use

96%

of users said their knowledge of the compliance topic area improved

96%

of users said they would recommend our eLearning courses to other organisations

750,000+

hours of training and course content delivered

200,000+

employees across the island of Ireland have now benefitted from our services

FAQs

Got a question about Protecting Data when Home Working?

Chances are at this stage you have a couple questions. If you can’t find your answer below, we encourage you to ask questions directly and you can call us anytime.

Who should participate in data protection training?

What is the duration of this data protection course for Northern Irish employees?

When should data protection training be provided to all staff?

Can this course be customised?

How much does this all-staff training cost?

Is the training content tailored specifically to Northern Irish legislation and guidance?

How is the training delivered?

Is this course instructor-led or self-paced?

How can I purchase an eLearning course for my staff and get them set up?

I have a workforce across different areas of the UK and Ireland, can you provide training for all of them?

Are certificates provided at the end of the course?

Can I monitor staff activity and completion rates?

What are the benefits of Legal Island’s eLearning training for your organisation?

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We help many of Northern Ireland's leading organisations with their training requirements.

"The implementation of eLearning offered easily accessible training for all employees, without having to commute. The interface is extremely user-friendly, and the reporting features enable us to obtain measurable results with ease."

Jill O’Halloran Learning & Development, Choice Housing

"Legal Island's Diversity & Inclusion course content is excellent and interactive. Our staff now have a greater understanding of current legislation around equality, but the training also goes beyond mere compliance to showcasing the benefits of diversity and inclusion."

Olga Pollock HR Manager, Firmus Energy

"Legal Island's eLearning training offered an affordable, accessible method of ensuring all staff were informed of data protection regulations and aware of the implications."

Sandra Bailie Head of Organisational Development, NICVA

"The course was extremely timely as we already had a number of staff working from home, we were able to get them access to the course very quickly. Our staff have said the course was informative, quick to complete and there was real ease of access."

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