Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here are a couple of connected articles about how easy it is for even inexperienced threat actors, let alone state sponsored ones, to access the raw materials they need to carry out cyber security attacks. The Dark Web is a market like any other – well almost… If you need …
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a joint advisory with the cyber security organisations from the UK, New Zealand, Netherlands and Canada listing ten regularly exploited weak security controls, poor configurations, and bad practices that allow threat actors to compromise networks. Here is the article: Weak Security …
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The quote is from an article by Royal Hansen, Vice President of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security, outlining how Google sees it’s role in making it a more secure world. Building a secure world (blog.google) I always have a seed of doubt when I read anything like this from …
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Google published three articles yesterday, to do with privacy and cyber security, showing how one of the world’s biggest corporations, that primarily depends on processing and using your online information for profit, is going to take steps to protect you. The first promotes the feature, in Google search, where you …
Following my article on Monday here on Smart Thinking: The Guardian has a feature on on going passwordless which is worth reading: TechScape: Apple, Google and Microsoft are about to make passwords a thing of the past | Technology | The Guardian The effectiveness of “passwordlessness” (I just made that …
