Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Authentication, Authorisation and Accountability. This is the first part of a three-part series looking at the basics of the cyber security principle of “AAA”. Today we will start with Authentication It seems the easiest of principles. Everyone needs a username and password (credentials) to access any of your organisation’s systems. …
Just before I write this I am going to alert our web team so they can check our clients have the WordPress patch installed and if not get it done for them… The WordPress JetPack is a useful add-on for WordPress websites that provides a range of extra functionality – …
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Having temporarily closed its doors last week to new business, PyPi – a python code repository – is now enforcing the most basic of cyber security precautions – 2FA! PyPI announces mandatory use of 2FA for all software publishers (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway from this is that any essential business service …
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Following a meeting with a client last week and the first news item I posted on Monday, I started this week thinking about risk, which has led to a short series of articles looking at… risk! On Smart Thinking I wrote about risk analysis and how I get started with …
Today we are going to look at the very first meeting I have with clients where we look at risk analysis. This is not a blog about eating an elephant – that is a figure of speech – although I do have a book that includes a paragraph or two …
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