Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
A look back at one of the innovators of computing and with a stretch an original enabler of modern day hackers! (As Clive says we cannot always be serious here!) Ada Lovelace was born Augusta Ada Byron, the daughter of Lord Byron the poet. Her parents’ marriage was short-lived and …
It’s not cybersecurity related but… Captain Kirk is going into space! This story has been in the news for several days – and I commented on it on the Octagon blog: Today is the day that William Shatner will be riding on the Blue Origin New Shepard space craft for …
This was sent to me by a fellow graduate of the Napier Cybersecurity MSc. Here is the Captain Kirk, Star Trek blog I wrote – just in case you are interested.
A story of cybersecurity and privacy from 1903 The image above: British Post Office engineers inspect Marconi’s wireless telegraphy equipment, during a demonstration on Flat Holm island (Source: Cardiff Council Flat Holm Project via Wikimedia Commons) Guglielmo Marconi developed the wireless telegraph machine and in May 1897 he transmitted the …
Continue reading “The Tale of Marconi and the Ethical Hacker – #BeCyberSmart”
I do not want this blog just to be doom and gloom – so from time to time I like something a bit lighter. It cannot all be serious… #BeCyberSmart – Smart Thinking Solutions – and you will learn something useful about multi, two or dual factor authentication (you choose). …
One of the people who inspired me into a career in technology has died. Sir Clive Sinclair passed away on the 16th September 2021. I wrote an article for Octagon Technology about the important early tech that he invented and I bought. Here is the link: Here is the man …
