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Posted on 9 November 202314 November 2023

Defence in Depth

defence in depth

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 …

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Posted on 1 November 20239 November 2023

Where Do You Keep Your Passwords?

passwords recycling

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 …

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Posted on 25 October 202329 October 2023

I am out of the office…

phishing email threat

I am out of the office this week and that is why I am going to reproduce an article here, that I wrote last year for CyberAwake about the “Out-of-Office” automatic reply. The Out-of-Office Email and How it Compromises Your Organisation’s Cyber Security Before heading out on our leave, we …

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Posted on 11 October 202329 October 2023

Password Fatigue – Back to Basics

password fatigue

I have been writing a mini-series about passwords over on CyberAwake and each time I think I have finished, something in the news causes me to write another chapter, which brings me to password fatigue. Just yesterday I was in a Teams meeting with a new client, where they were …

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Posted on 4 October 202320 March 2024

Cyber Security and a Piece of Paper

paper is a cyber security risk as well

It all starts with a bit of paper… There has been a lot of coverage of the Conservative Government’s on and off plans for HS2 – this article is not about that, but how this whole debate started. It started with a photograph of discussion papers that should not have …

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