Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
For those of you who read Smart Thinking regularly, you will realise that this “Wednesday Bit” has been published a day late – the reason was a Cyber Security Awareness talk I gave yesterday at the East Lincs Expo. I delayed publishing, rather than writing an article and leaving it …
There are hundreds of reasons organisations, lobbyists and some politicians will quote for not reporting a cyber-security breach – most will have to do with money. The one reason the rest of us should be in favour of reporting rules is that it is our data that these organisations have …
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Not from this cyber security expert: Ransomware victims targeted by fake hack-back offers (bleepingcomputer.com) Cyber-criminals will take advantage of anything to exploit a victim. Your takeaway from this… You need a ransomware plan and you can get (real) help with that starting with my Ransomware Primer – a series of …
It’s back on… Due to circumstances beyond everyone’s control our cyber security webinar had to be postponed. For those of you who put the time by for the event we are sorry and look forward to meeting with you at this new event. For those of you who did not …
I will start with this report from The Record about the ransomware risk in the UK: UK government risking ‘catastrophic ransomware attack at any moment,’ parliamentary report warns (therecord.media) If you have now read that, then you should be taking responsibility for your organisation’s readiness for a ransomware or other …
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