Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Are you old enough to have been told, when you were at school, that everyone would have flying cars in the 21st Century? I am. So, articles on flying cars have been quite popular here on Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology. Swimming Cars When I saw this article about cars …
I am not sure it will be, but I think it does round off my Passwords Mini-series for the time being. Back to Basics – Passwords Passwords – Back to Basics Back to Basics – The Password Part 2 Back to Basics – The Password Keyboard Walk Part 3 Back …
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Writing code for today’s sophisticated software is hard and no matter how careful the vendors are, how many beta and alpha testers they have, errors will always slip through. If those errors compromise the user’s security, you can bet a threat actor will discover them and exploit them. It is …
This week I have been discussing user and systems monitoring with a client’s senior management team. Their immediate response was that they did not want to spy on their staff as they trusted them – and to be fair they are appear to be a friendly supportive organisation. However my …
Having ended last week’s cyber security news with ransomware stories and then starting this week’s news again with ransomware, our Operations Manager Martin and I ended up talking about the first time he and I dealt with this type of malware on a client’s network and in-house server… Ransomware in …
