Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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 …
