I wrote this blog to make some simple suggestions for effective security steps that business owners can take that do not take much time. The title of the blog is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1959 book The Sirens of Titan. If you look these words up in a dictionary …
The pandemic gives us little choice – we have to work from home
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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Ransomware is the most serious threat your business!
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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A Warning for Universities and Colleges – from the NCSC
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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Why you should not reuse a password
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 …
