So you think you know what “privacy is. You probably know that the GDPR addresses privacy and have discussed privacy as part of your compliance – but did you know there is no definition for privacy included in the regulations? I have written an article on the Octagon blog looking …
If you are under pressure you may make a mistake
A classic ploy for an email attack is to make the message so urgent that you do not think carefully before clicking on the link or opening the attachment. The article below illustrates this ploy – the email creates a story where the result of not taking action is the …
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Between Timbuktu and Timid
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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