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Author: Diana Catton

Diana Catton MBA

Diana is the CEO at Octagon Technology Ltd with special responsibilities for strategy, finance and keeping up with legislation. Her MBA and many years’ business experience make her particularly well qualified for her role, and she is never happier than when she is grappling with financial analysis and spreadsheets.

Because the business operates in a constantly changing arena she takes part of each day to make sure she can “talk the talk” about IT by accessing up-to-date training and specialist newsletters. She was closely involved with Clive’s research for his MSc in cyber security and continues to keep up with the evolving threats and mitigations in cyber space.
Posted on 10 May 20239 May 2023

Tackling Push Bombing

Multi-factor authentication stands between you and a threat actor gaining access to your services – but the attackers have come up with a simple way to subvert it. Just keep bombarding you with authentication requests until you either give in or make a mistake. If the hacker has your correct …

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Posted on 26 April 202326 April 2023

Business Continuity Planning

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Following the pandemic, I thought everyone would have a written business continuity plan. Of course, I was proven wrong! Do You have a plan for the unexpected? Are you a business owner? If so, this is for you as having a business continuity plan is super important for a few …

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Posted on 5 April 20235 April 2023

Will Robots Rule the World?

online meeting and training

Robots taking over? Clive is not sure but… A couple of weeks ago we were invited to speak to a Zoom meeting and this was basically a Question and Answer session. After reassuring the group that no question was too silly to ask, just that nobody had been brave enough …

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Posted on 24 February 202323 February 2023

Cyber Security Ebook Giveaway

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Just launched today is our first cyber security ebook giveaway. Cyber Security Starts at the Top – Clive Catton MScTen Articles Exploring Your Cyber Security Responsibilities In this first ebook I have collected ten of Clive‘s longer articles which discuss a variety of cyber security threats and risks all organisations …

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Posted on 23 November 202224 May 2023

If you have a Dropbox account, change your password

Privacy by Design

Dropbox reported a cyber attack on 1 November 2022 which they are investigating as they cannot yet tell how the bad actor gained access. The attacker not only garnered the names and email addresses of Dropbox employees, they also managed to access source code.  So far, the number of users …

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