I am always pushing the necessity of keeping up with patches and updates – they are everyone’s essential step for good cyber security. However here is the warning tale for when things go wrong at the vendor end: HP rushes to fix bricked printers after faulty firmware update (bleepingcomputer.com) When …
Backups vulnerable
Backups of all your important information and systems, resilient to attack, is an essential part of any incident response and business continuity plan. So anything that could impact that back-up must be a priority to solve. So if you use Veeam back-up you need a conversation: Hackers target vulnerable Veeam …
Business Continuity Planning
Following the pandemic, I thought everyone would have a written business continuity plan. Of course, I was proven wrong! Do You have a plan for the unexpected? Are you a business owner? If so, this is for you as having a business continuity plan is super important for a few …
Business continuity – Cyber breaches take time to fix
Why is a business continuity plan a good idea? Here’s why -the Acro Criminal Records Office is still facing disruption following the cyber security breach last month. Criminal Records Service still disrupted 4 weeks after hack – BBC News Your takeaway from this is that a well funded government resource …
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Incident Response Training
I have a couple of articles this week looking at an unannounced cyber security incident response exercise I ran earlier this week. It’s Tuesday and I think I have a computer virus… Incident Response Communications – Have You Got It Covered? I chose the day I did as some of …