Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This article started life in couple of ways. Over on CyberAwake I re-ran an article from summer 2022, looking at how some information, useful to a threat actor, could leak out of your organisation this summer, just because of the use of a simple setting in Outlook: The Out-Of-Office Email …
Before I start this post let me make this very clear – you have to run the patches and updates for your systems as soon as they become available to keep your organisation secure. But sometime those updates can cause more problems – as in the case of some Windows …
Having come back from a week’s holiday, I have been busy catching up, so this week the Wednesday Bit about reminding you about my collection of Back-to-Basics cyber security primers. Why am I doing this? Because we can all benefit from some cyber security training, whatever our level of expertise. The articles …
I have used the first two parts of this mini-series on Phishing attacks to look at the more general subject of social engineering because phishing is an application of social engineering aimed at you and your organisation. Start to understand the “how” of social engineering and you start to build …
Guernsey’s Data Protection Commissioner Brent Homan has published a report showing that the leaking of personal data on the island has risen. More than 1,000 people affected by data breaches – BBC The Office of the Data Protection Authority (ODPA) says over 1500 people have been impacted. The reported stated …
