Here is an excellent article from The Conversation, by Amro Al-Said Ahmad, looking at the vulnerabilities of cloud computing and infrastructure. How we’re using ‘chaos engineering’ to make cloud computing less vulnerable to cyber attacks (theconversation.com) Your Takeaway Many times, when I am involved with an IT and Cyber Security …
The state of ransomware
I have written a lot about updates and patches recently – let’s get back to another old favourite – ransomware. No surprise it is still a growth market for threat actors. Read about it in Unit 42’s bi-annual report: Ransomware Review: First Half of 2024 (paloaltonetworks.com) Your takeaway Simple – …
The Wednesday Bit – On Holiday
The Wednesday Bit is on its summer holidays at the moment, but here is an article that I thought was worth reminding you about. Planning and Preparation Your incident response plans do not need to be very complicated or long – they just need to cover what you need to …
It is a while since I have written about Ransomware
Once ransomware gets into an organisation, usually through some type of phishing attack, that organisation will have a problem that will cost it money and will damage its reputation. So, anything that makes it easier for ransomware attacks to flourish and increase has to be bad news for every organisation …
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Cyber-breach reporting rules are a good thing for all of us
There are hundreds of reasons organisations, lobbyists and some politicians will quote for not reporting a cyber-security breach – most will have to do with money. The one reason the rest of us should be in favour of reporting rules is that it is our data that these organisations have …
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