Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I am having a break this week from the “Wednesday Bit”, but what I do have for you is my today is my completed Phishing Email Primer. However my track record for these Back-to-Basics mini-series is that they do not stay “complete” for very long, so do keep an eye …
Before we start – this article looks at the cyber security risk paper poses to an organisation: If you want evidence that paper is a cyber security problem you need to get to grips with, have a look at this article in the recent news: Student’s flimsy bin bags blamed …
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A search through the Smart Thinking archives will return many examples of organisations – often councils – accidentally publish or email sensitive information. Here is another: Lewisham Council published residents’ details on website – BBC News In this case the information was on the website for 11 months before the …
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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 …
Here are a couple of examples from the recent cyber-tech press of examples of software vulnerabilities that need patching… Promptly! Microsoft releases Exchange hotfixes for security update issues – BleepingComputer ArcaneDoor hackers exploit Cisco zero-days to breach govt networks – BleepingComputer The first illustrates that management is needed as not …
