Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The Wednesday Bit is on its summer holidays at the moment, but here is an article that I thought was worth reminding you about. Planning and Preparation Your incident response plans do not need to be very complicated or long – they just need to cover what you need to …
This is not a political story but a cyber security story. Last year it was revealed that the UK’s Electoral Commission – a body charged with maintaining, credibility and openness in the UK’s voting system – had been hacked, about 10 months prior to them making a statement about it. …
Continue reading “Just when you thought the election was behind us!”
This is a quote from our promotional material about creating incident response plans. CrowdStrike If you cause a Global IT Outage you had better have a message that is better than a $10 Uber Eats voucher: CrowdStrike backlash over $10 apology voucher for IT chaos – BBC News Your Takeaway …
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If you have avoided the papers, online news, social media, mainstream news and TV, and did not have to fly, you may have missed that CrowdStrike, Microsoft and world IT had a bad day last Friday. I did not write about the incident then as I wanted the 24hr news …
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I was reading about the hack of the international telecoms giant AT&T last week, but I noticed the headline of this article about it on the BBC today, that clearly sums up the hack. Hackers steal call records of ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers – BBC It is the ‘nearly all’ …
