Some security advice for any business…

If you collect a lot of information that would be of particular interest to threat actors, such as personally identifiable information (PII), bank account details etc, make sure you take care of that information.

Or the government could set up an age verification site – and all the threat actors can flock there instead of your servers.

The UK government has toyed with this – even going as far as to discuss letting the biggest online porn company to run the service for them!

Age-verification for online pornography to begin in July – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) – follow the link – no they weren’t…

UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system | Internet | The Guardian

Now the Australian government is going to give it go…

Online age-verification system could create ‘honeypot’ of personal data and pornography-viewing habits, privacy groups warn | Technology | The Guardian

There has to be a solution, but it is not creating the biggest national honeypot for threat actors!

Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles