Following on from yesterdays article about using obsolete kit – almost as bad is using kit that has not been patched. There is a good reason that many of my articles here on Smart Thinking are about patches and updates, it is the most powerful cyber security step you can …
Octagon Technology’s Security Operations Centre is Online
Our Security Operations Centre (SOC) is now operational and our first clients are already benefiting from our continuous 24/7 monitoring, analysis, alert and response service. You could as well… Why you need a Security Operations Centre Here is a great quote from the director of the Security Operations Centre: A …
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Why you do not run obsolete software or equipment
Obsolete means no security patches or updates – this is bad news. DO NOT DO IT. Make sure your budgeting takes this into account – those Windows 10 machines did cost you back then but they do not last forever. If you are still not getting the message have a …
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Business data breaches leak customer data
If you collect any data – especially customer data containing personal or financial information – you need to keep it secure. Whether it is in house, on the cloud or on a web server, in storage or transit, is it time you carried out some due diligence to check things …
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Is the UN Cyber-crime Treaty a Good Thing?
You would think yes. An international treaty to combat cyber-crime getting the signatory countries to pull together to combat cross border malicious cyber activity. But then the politicians and the special interest groups got involved and now it could end up being a completely different tool. See what Amy Hogan-Burney, …
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