As 2024 draws to a close and we all start making plans for the holiday season, I thought it would be a good idea to publish an updated list of all my Back to Basics cyber security primers as this week’s Wednesday Bit. These are easy read short series designed …
The Insider Threat Primer
Having to discuss the insider threat with clients is always difficult – they are always already trusting someone (even if they do not think so) and I am calling that trust into doubt. My reports and discussions always include the statement “monitoring what your team does with your information and …
When paperwork is paperwork!
Last week I wrote about the paperwork associated with a well-run BYOD project and policy. Although I spoke about paperwork in reality – except for that copy on the office shelf – the paperwork is probably just a collection of M365 and PDF files, saved in the cloud. However, sometimes …
I love it when a plan comes together…
My recently completed Back to Basics BYOD Primer has been neatly incorporated into my soon the be completed Insider Threat Primer: Insider Threat and BYOD (pt.6) – CyberAwake If you need to get up to speed with either topic then these Primers will answer many of the starting questions to …
The end of the password as we know it…
…pssst. I have a secret. What’s the password? Passwords have been around forever. In the Bible the password was “shibboleth”, the Romans had “watchwords”, “tessera” is Latin for password and who could forget “Open Sesame”. In our connected, digital world we all depend on them and have depended on them …