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 …
Password Rules
Not for you but for developers and programmers. I they do not set effective password parameters then it can be too easy for a user to take a shortcut to a poor password and poor cyber security. NIST Recommends Some Common-Sense Password Rules – Schneier on Security Your Takeaway If …
Problems with QR Codes
Diana has written this week’s “Wednesday Bit” on QR Codes. Last week I became aware of a significant problem with QR codes, which are used by many organisations and individuals to direct people to their websites or sales pages. Such codes have been in use now for many years. (BizTechReports, …
Realistic Cyber Security
The Wednesday Bit is still on holiday! A couple of weeks back, whilst walking in Scotland, I got involved with a prospective client in a discussion about the benefits of our cyber security stack and in particular our Security Operations Centre. The discussion was not about “how much” but what …
