Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Authentication, Authorisation and Accountability (AAA) and The Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) come together in this primer to give you a basic understanding of the importance of knowing who is accessing your information and how much they can access. Another important idea covered here is what happens when something goes …
Sometimes a cyber-attack is something as easy as adding a button saying “view document” when whale phishing senior people in an organisation. Ongoing Microsoft Azure account hijacking campaign targets executives (bleepingcomputer.com) Your takeaway When was the last time you audited the credentials and associated authorisations of those credentials? If you …
One thing I learnt very quickly whilst studying and after graduation was that my degree in cyber security was only the tool to make me think about cyber security properly and unless I kept my personal study up to date the degree would soon become useless. That is why I …
I get asked some strange cyber security questions. Such as “…why should I be bothered with MFA?” Find out the answer to that one this Thursday on Cyber Awake. “Do I really need to think about the paperwork my team leaves lying around our office?”. The answer to that one …
I often post things at the weekend, that are a bit outside the regular Smart Thinking articles, are possibly a longer read, but they give usually give context to our cyber security and privacy stories. here is one of the increasing use of facial recognition by the authorities in the …
One of the things that came out of the conference I attended on Tuesday in London, was defence in depth, combatting the ways in which the threat actors have expanded their attack vectors and tactics to evade various modern technical and human defences. The message we should all take from …
I was wondering what to write about this week for “The Wednesday Bit” – I knew it was not going to be passwords. I have had enough of that! I got started on a spin-off topic from an IT and Cyber Security Audit I am running at the moment about …
