I could get a dictionary definition here – but instead I will simply say it is a trusted employee betraying that trust and revealing your information to an unauthorised party. Most of us would immediately think people in high positions of trust selling high value information to your competitors and …
USB data storage devices – useful but risky
A few weeks ago, I was asked to write an article looking at the ups and downs of using USB data storage devices in businesses: If you must use portable USB drives, then you must read this… – CyberAwake One of the down sides was the Japanese man who loss …
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My latest post on the Insider Threat
I have posted the latest part of my occasional series about the Insider Threat cyber security risk, on our online training site, CyberAwake:
Because It’s Friday – back to space this week
The reason for the “Because It’s Friday” project was to lighten the content of this blog as my stories can be a stream of bad news. With the cyber security news this week of loss of privacy, the insider threat, our cars being vulnerable, threat actors hitting out at home …
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Because It’s Friday… Data, Data, Data and do you know what a computer data punch card is?
Whilst researching for yesterday’s installment of the Insider Threat series, that I am writing over on our online training site CyberAwake, I read an article by Bret Arsenault, from Microsoft that opened with this quote: The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than …
