Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
As well as yesterday being the day we published our 1000th post here, on Smart Thinking. It was also the day we launched the blog on the CyberAwake training site. The content of the CyberAwake blog will be different from Octagon and Smart Thinking, with an emphasis on the issues …
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Industrial systems, large and small run on computers – so why not attack them? So here is the scenario – which Octagon has had to deal with in the past – someone leaves and forgets to leave the password for a system that is accessed only occasionally. You cannot contact …
It has been a long standing thing at Octagon Technology that we advise our clients not to store important data on memory sticks – as they are easily lost: Japanese man loses USB stick with entire city’s personal details – BBC News By not allowing the use of USB sticks, …
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Here is a good news story: A two month operation – called First Light 2022 – between law enforcement agencies of 76 nations has led to the seizure of millions of pounds of assets and the arrest of thousands. The organised gangs targeted were behind hundreds of telecommunications and social …
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Here is another example of a data breach at a council. Although breach implies someone broke in and stole the data – as opposed to what happened which was that the Council employees themselves just sent the sensitive information out as part of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request – …
