Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
It is obvious but even the biggest organisations and governments in the world will be responding slower that the threat actors – so there will always be gaps in the cyber security. Hackers scan for vulnerabilities within 15 minutes of disclosure (bleepingcomputer.com) Here is a real world example of a …
Who remembers Tandy, the electronics store? There was one in the Grays shopping centre, when I was kid, as there were in many other towns around the country, and I bought stuff from them. Although the free battery card never really did work out. Radio Shack was the US parent …
I was put onto this blog post via Bruce Schneier’s blog. I’ve locked myself out of my digital life – Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi) This is why role play and thinking about your operation, is a vital part of creating a cyber security plan that is resilient and provides for …
Continue reading “This is a technology exercise in when everything goes wrong!”
This equally applies to individuals, large and small organisations and government departments. The threat actors best friend, is when we all compartmentalise our cyber security issues, dealing with them quietly and behind closed doors – this includes trying to pay the cyber criminals off! This gives them the opportunity to …
Continue reading “Lack of knowledge will hamper anyone’s cyber security efforts”
I must be sounding a bit like a broken record (see references at the bottom), as I regularly write about the fact that ransomware attacks are ever increasing! Here is another report showing just that: A favorite of cybercriminals and nation states, ransomware incidents increase again | TechRepublic Just know …
