Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
You would think yes. An international treaty to combat cyber-crime getting the signatory countries to pull together to combat cross border malicious cyber activity. But then the politicians and the special interest groups got involved and now it could end up being a completely different tool. See what Amy Hogan-Burney, …
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Whilst I have been away my team have been keeping up with security advisories that have impacted our clients. The vendors are the primary sources for my team but they also use the US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) alerts and the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Let’s catch …
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Other vendors issue their monthly security and feature patches on or around Microsoft Patch Tuesday – it makes sense to get the updates all done together. The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – one of my go to cyber security sites – issues regular round-ups of the …
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This morning, our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. They will keep an eye on the reports all day to check there are no issues or absconders! Here is Microsoft’s detailed page on …
So most organisations use Microsoft Office in some way. Even if it they do not use it, someone will email them a Word or Excel document. You cannot avoid it – even on a Mac or Linux computer. That makes it a juicy target for threat actors – there are …
