Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I often refer to threat actors and hackers here on Smart Thinking and in other cyber security article I write for other outlets, however these are useful terms but in reality I am writing about cyber criminals. These cyber criminals operate indiscriminately in a globally connected environment and they have …
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This week I have been discussing user and systems monitoring with a client’s senior management team. Their immediate response was that they did not want to spy on their staff as they trusted them – and to be fair they are appear to be a friendly supportive organisation. However my …
Having ended last week’s cyber security news with ransomware stories and then starting this week’s news again with ransomware, our Operations Manager Martin and I ended up talking about the first time he and I dealt with this type of malware on a client’s network and in-house server… Ransomware in …
I am in the middle of another IT and Cyber Security audit for an organisation and as part of that report I have been asked to look at their SharePoint configuration. IT was set up in rush during the first lockdown and the board and CEO are not sure about …
I am always writing and talking about how important patches and updates are to your cyber security, so this is good news for users of Chromebooks, extended update support: Google extends security update support for Chromebooks to 10 years (bleepingcomputer.com) We have some clients who use Chromebooks as they represent …
