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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VPN companies start to vote with their feet when it comes to storing user data in India

VPN on holiday

Because of the soon to be law, requirements for VPN companies operating in India, to keep full logs of their user’s activities for five years, so India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and law enforcement can have access to them – so removing the levels of privacy that a VPN …

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I wanted to post this last weekend – but it only became available this morning! A Platinum Jubilee Fact.

retro tech

The BBC Inside Science, radio show, went to their archives to look at science and technology over the last 70 years. BBC Inside Science – A Reign of Science – BBC Sounds I was also born in 1961, and it is interesting to listen to the bit about “…back then, …

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Another good step for better child safety on the internet and for catching the criminals who are involved

This is not a “scan every image you (the law abiding citizen) upload” solution, such as suggested by Apple among others. This is making the unique digital hash evidence of illegal child abuse images and videos available to the Internet Watch Foundation that has the resources to search the internet …

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Ransomware attacks – just in case you have forgotten that any organisation can be compromised – three tips to help you face up to the threat

Verizon Stats

Bored with ransomware stories? Read this one, it has a very nice Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference. There have been a flurry of ransomware attacks in the news recently – but these are only the ones that make the headlines. Louisiana authorities investigating ransomware attack on city of Alexandria …

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