For those of you who read Smart Thinking regularly, you will realise that this “Wednesday Bit” has been published a day late – the reason was a Cyber Security Awareness talk I gave yesterday at the East Lincs Expo. I delayed publishing, rather than writing an article and leaving it …
Cyber-breach reporting rules are a good thing for all of us
There are hundreds of reasons organisations, lobbyists and some politicians will quote for not reporting a cyber-security breach – most will have to do with money. The one reason the rest of us should be in favour of reporting rules is that it is our data that these organisations have …
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The AI cyber-crime arms race
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a report discussing the cyber security threat and the benefits for cyber security defence artificial intelligence (AI) poses over the next two years: Global ransomware threat expected to rise with AI, NCSC warns – NCSC.GOV.UK The near-term impact of AI on the …
More about your VPN
This is a follow-on article to last week’s article Let’s Talk About Your VPN. You should read that article first, to save me having to explain what a VPN is and why I am talking about them now. VPN Issues I spent last week talking up the cyber security advantages …
Let’s Talk About Your VPN
I am on holiday for the next two weeks – some cold weather walking in the Lake District and the Cairngorms, whilst Diana stays back in the warm office – so it must be time to discuss VPN use again. The photo above is the view whilst I write this …