Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Cyber-security threat increases when working from home Due to lockdown restrictions many people have no choice but to work from home. For us at SmartThinking this is not an issue as we have been doing this for years and effective policies, procedures and security tools in place to make it …
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Kamila challenges you to think about your ransomware defences and whether they are up to the job? There are some simple questions to answer and some scenarios and issues to think about. These are there to challenge the solutions you have in place already to check they make the grade. …
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The National Cyber Security Centre has warned colleges and universities that there is a real risk of their systems being infected by ransomware, as they prepare to begin what promising to be a highly unusual academic year. Cyber threat to disrupt start of university term: BBC News Many organisations including …
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People will always need reminding of this most simple of cyber security rules: I use the slide at the top of this post, or some variation of it, in every password, MFA, social engineering or cyber security or boardroom presentation I make. Here is the impact on the Canada Revenue …
High profile hacks are always going to make the mainstream news – add to that celebrities, influencers, Bitcoin and the fact the hackers netted about £80,000 before being closed down – then the Twitter hack was always going to make big headlines. Here is a link to the BBC article, …
