Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This week the Wednesday Bit is for reminding you about my collection of mini-series and back to basics cyber security primers. There have been a number of additions, updates and changes since I first ran a “Collection” article. Why am I doing this? Because we can all benefit from some …
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been writing a short series looking at the basics of encryption, how you can use it to improve your cyber security and some of the issues you need to address if you are using it. As I have done with other mini-series …
You use encryption to keep your information secret from unauthorised people – not from everyone. I am going to skip the basics of encryption here as I have covered it in parts 1-3, there are links to those articles at the end of this article. Today, having spent time telling …
Today we are going to look at one of the quickest ways any organisation (that uses Microsoft 365) can enhance its cyber security – encryption. Why encryption? I was leading a Cyber Security Awareness course last week and one of the first things we discussed was best practice when it …
In case you missed the memo passwords are important. Storing them in plain text where threat actors can eventually get access to them is a really bad thing. Misconfigured Firebase instances leaked 19 million plaintext passwords (bleepingcomputer.com) It is even worse if those passwords are associated with other sensitive information, …
I have written many articles describing how the first steps in any cyber security plan has to be the recognition that you and your team need to be able to keep a secret. For instance the first secret is of course to keep any passwords you have been given access …
This week the Wednesday Bit is about is highlighting some of the mini-series and back to basics cyber security primers I have written. Why? Because yesterday when I was speaking with a long-term client about password hygiene in their organisation, they were unaware I had a Password Primer they could …
