Today is Patch Tuesday. Here is why it is important: How Microsoft Patch Tuesday can help your cyber security planning – CyberAwake Johannes Ullrich has written a summary of Microsoft’s June 2023 cyber security patches and updates: June 2023 Microsoft Patch Tuesday – SANS Internet Storm Centre Microsoft always has …
Credentials – A Primer
Today I am going to look at why credentials are so important in cyber security? Credentials for identity The management of credentials across your organisation for all services is an important impact of your cyber security, whether it is someone using the global administrator account as their “daily driver” work …
Why team training has to be part of your cyber security plan?
We all have the best technical cyber security defences in place we can afford (or we should have). The threat actors know this so they are always on the hunt for those techniques that our anti-virus and filtering systems cannot detect. PowerShell is a powerful Windows command line and automation …
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MOVEit flaw – Excellent cyber advice from the BBC
This is a follow-up article to the one I posted about the compromise of MOVEit software: MOVEit secure file transfer compromised. I could paraphrase the following article – it covers many of the points I have written about here on Smart Thinking before – but my advice is take a …
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Biometrics
I had this article published yesterday on CyberAwake looking at biometrics and cyber security: We all thought biometrics were better security… (cyberawake.co.uk)