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Category: Governance

Posted on 24 May 202324 May 2023

Risk Analysis – How to eat a very large quadruped!

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Today we are going to look at the very first meeting I have with clients where we look at risk analysis. This is not a blog about eating an elephant – that is a figure of speech – although I do have a book that includes a paragraph or two …

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Posted on 22 May 202322 May 2023

Patches and Updates. When they go wrong…

Patches and Updates

I am always pushing the necessity of keeping up with patches and updates – they are everyone’s essential step for good cyber security. However here is the warning tale for when things go wrong at the vendor end: HP rushes to fix bricked printers after faulty firmware update (bleepingcomputer.com) When …

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Posted on 19 May 202319 May 2023

Millions of websites use WordPress…

WordPress website claim makes it a BYOD risk

…which makes them a juicy target for threat actors if they can find a bug in code or plugins. That was the topic of yesterday’s article on CyberAwake: Let’s Talk About WordPress – CyberAwake This is an article about governance – not a technical article – so if you are …

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Posted on 11 May 202311 May 2023

The cost of a data breach

Here is a follow-up story to the recent Capita data breach. Capita admits cost of March breach will be up to £20M • The Register Capita is the UK’s largest outsourcing company with the UK armed forces, government and some very large companies as its clients. So the costs of …

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Posted on 9 May 20239 May 2023

Why you need be honest if you are hacked

This did happen in the United States, but it is a warning tale for all senior managers and board members – you are responsible. Ex-Uber security chief sentenced over covering up hack – BBC News Your Takeaway My Ransomware Primer includes sections on what your incident response plan should look …

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