Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
A few months ago, I wrote a Back-to-Basics mini-series on phishing emails, how they impact organisations and what you can do to reduce the risks. Back-to-Basics – A Phishing Email Primer | Smart Thinking Solutions Phish Attacks – the deluge never stops Every week I read articles on the latest …
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On September 4, Tewkesbury Borough Council declared a major IT incident and shut down its systems and enacted their incident response plan. It now turns out that this incident was not a cyber-attack but an error in user accounts. However this does not matter. There was and is inconvenience to …
I have started a new mini-series over on CyberAwake looking at the Insider Threat. The Insider Threat – Not just a question of trust. (pt.1) The first part is setting the scene, before we start looking for defences.
This is a short series looking at the basics, the benefits and the risks of Bring-Your-Own-Device or BYOD. Today we are going to look at the most useful benefits. Defining BYOD Let’s start with a definition of what BYOD – Bring-Your-Own-Device is. To qualify, a device must be owned by …
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Here are a couple of updates on the Transport for London (TfL) cyber security incident. If you remember TfL said there was “no evidence” that customer data had been compromised. Transport for London Cyber Incident | Smart Thinking Solutions Update One The authorities have arrested a suspect: London transport cyber …
