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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Website security either some people just don’t get it or they cannot be bothered!

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The Register discusses the findings of researcher, Scott Helme, who discovered that just under a third of websites did not have https enabled by default. HTTPS by default now accounts for 70% of websites • The Register Get a TLS/SSL certificate and enable https on any site you are responsible …

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More on breaking TOR anonymity

Project Tor https://www.torproject.org/

Here is an article exploring the attempts to subvert the Tor anonymous web browser. Russia’s Internet Censorship Machine Is Going After Tor | WIRED UK My previous article on this issue. Tor relays the Tor Browser and the loss of privacy – Smart Thinking Solutions

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More on Twitter’s privacy rule change – PhD research to see what people think

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Holly Hancock (Lecturer in Tort Law, University of East Anglia) has an article on The Conversation looking at the upside of the Twitter privacy changes. She backs this up with research that she is submitting for her PhD. Twitter has banned posting of images of people without their consent – …

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