Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
For today’s Wednesday Bit, I want to rerun an article I first published in November last year. I was reminded about my article on encryption for two reasons… One of my current IT and Cyber Security Audits has highlighted an issue where very sensitive information is being shared in a …
I am sure many of you watched the drama about the Horizon Software fiasco, The Post Office, the muppet CEO and Mr Bates and it would have been impossible to miss the ongoing press coverage of the scandal. But then the Post Office did this: Post Office accidentally leaks names …
Before we start – this article looks at the cyber security risk paper poses to an organisation: If you want evidence that paper is a cyber security problem you need to get to grips with, have a look at this article in the recent news: Student’s flimsy bin bags blamed …
Continue reading “People always forget about the paper when it comes to cyber security!”
Well it was pretty obvious that the outcry by cyber security and privacy experts around the world, against Microsoft’s proposal to include an automatic function to screenshot your computer every few seconds, to produce a searchable record of EVERYTHING you have done on your computer, was a bad idea. Don’t …
A search through the Smart Thinking archives will return many examples of organisations – often councils – accidentally publish or email sensitive information. Here is another: Lewisham Council published residents’ details on website – BBC News In this case the information was on the website for 11 months before the …
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