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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Just last week we had to intervene when a client was going to donate their redundant computers to a charity. We ran our disposal procedure over them before we let them go. Then I saw this in the tech news: Canon warns of Wi-Fi security risks when discarding inkjet printers …
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Yesterday I wrote the opening chapter of this defence-in-depth article – I looked at how anti-virus protection can be side-stepped by threat actors and that staff cyber awareness training is needed to provide another layer to your defences. That was a human addition to your defence-in-depth and today we are …
I am in the middle of an IT and Cyber Security audit for a company – which is why Diana is covering the CyberAwake articles at the moment. During the interviews I conduct, as part of my process, I was told no one used a global administrator account as their …
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Diana has continued our series looking at how to assess organisational risk when it applies to cyber security. This series is running on our sister site CyberAwake. Today’s article looks at some practical ways to understand your risks: Assess The Cyber Security Risk – CyberAwake …and the earlier risk articles… …
