I am a great advocate of clients using encryption to enhance their cyber security and I have written a number of articles explaining how encryption is an easy cyber security step to implement. Here are a couple of them: In Support of Encryption Email Encryption I also think encryption is …
The day before Patch Tuesday…
Apple has released an emergency security patch for iPads and iPhones: Apple fixes zero-day exploited in ‘extremely sophisticated’ attacks The types of attack described would probably not impact the ordinary user – but a cyber security patch is a cyber security patch, who knows who else may come along the …
Google issues Android updates to fix zero-day exploits
Every vendor must do it – issue cyber security patches. For app vendors, if you use the app, you get the updates. For operating systems like Windows and the various flavours of Apple OS it is straight forward as the vendors have direct control of the OS and push regular …
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Apple releases a zero-day cyber security update
Apple has issued cyber security updates across its product range to address a zero-day security flaw in Apple’s Core Media framework that is being actively exploited. Apple security releases – Apple Support What systems are impacted by the zero-day flaw? Here are the operating systems that are receiving this update …
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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – A Primer
It is so easy for an organisation to just let their staff use their own devices – it can save a lot of expense – but no organisation should let BYOD “just” happen. This series will help you understand what BYOD has to be a choice benefiting both the organisation …