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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Cloud services – if breached what do they leak about your business
What information do you and I entrust to cloud services? We all like cloud services – for modern businesses, especially smaller businesses they give access to software, services and functionality that when we started Octagon Technology would have been beyond their reach. Then there are the back-ups – in the …
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Some Christmas Fun
Over the past few weeks I have written two articles around the technology theme of “Where is my flying car?”. These really fall outside of the more focused articles on this site – but hey it is Christmas. Here are the links for the articles on the Octagon Technology website: …
Google unavailable!
On Monday the 14th December the online world stopped for over 40 minutes – most of Googles services went down. This is a dramatic start to an article but it looks at come of the issues and impact of the event and offers some ideas to mitigate such an occurrence …
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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Children’s names revealed in a Council data breach
Bristol City Council has distributed the details of families with disabled children without their permission. This was not really a data breach more a data giveaway as the Council simply sent out an email to people asking for comments on their services and all the email details were readable to …
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