Author: Clive Catton

Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security)

Clive is the CISO at Octagon Technology Ltd with special responsibility for data privacy and cybersecurity. The world of business technology is constantly changing and to meet this challenge he recently graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with an MSc in Advanced Computer Security and Digital Forensics - this course is certified by the Nation Cyber Security Centre. His dissertation was on data privacy and classification in small businesses using Microsoft 365 for Business.

The degree is not the end of the studying – to keep current Clive spends some of his time at work simply reading and studying the latest technology trends and threats so our clients can benefit from this knowledge. This knowledge also shapes and supports the products and services Octagon delivers to clients.

To make full use of Clive’s Master’s degree in cybersecurity, Clive and Diana have a joint venture with an international research company to get access for our clients to up to date information, schemas, analytics, templates, actionable tools and guidance. Whatever the size of your organisation if you are not approaching IT, cybersecurity and information privacy in a way that supports and benefits you, they can help, from the boardroom to the shop floor.

Clive and Diana are also working on a project to provide flexible online cyber security training for businesses at CyberAwake - Train Your Team To Protect You Against Cyber Attacks. Clive is the cybersecurity consultant for the project.

Clive has a long running personal blog at Clive's Blog. Here he publishes articles about photography, walking, camping, technology, stuff he just likes and since January 1, 2012, he posts "a photo a day" on the blog.
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Not Ransomware!

I recently wrote a mini-series of articles looking at various aspects of ransomware and what you need to do about it. Ransomware – A Primer – Smart Thinking Solutions That series mainly concentrated on encryption ransomware but the cyber gangs are also turning to extortion ransomware – so I wrote …

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Outsourcing company for the MoD suffers a “cyber incident”

Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the UK and counts among it’s contracts the Ministry of Defence’s nuclear submarine training simulators, has reported it has suffered a “cyber incident”. Capita, company providing UK’s nuclear submarine training, confirms ‘cyber incident’ (therecord.media) The nature of the incident has not been disclosed …

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CISA Security Advisories – and why checking this post and software patching is important

software patches are essential cybersecurity

CISA is the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a very good source cyber security and software patching information. Last week they posted several software patching updates and known vulnerabilities that are being exploited and mitigations for them. Samba Releases Security Updates for Multiple Versions of Samba | …

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