Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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 …
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 …
