Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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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Clients are nearly always surprised, when I start to talk about paper when discussing their cyber security projects. But losing track of the paperwork can have an equally bad impact on your organisation as getting infected by ransomware or losing an unencrypted USB stick. Here is an article I wrote …
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President Biden’s government has set up The Joint Ransomware Task Force, to co-ordinate State and Federal responses to ransomware: US finds its ‘center of gravity’ in the fight against ransomware – The Record by Recorded Future
This post was first published on 15 June 2022 Update 12 July 2022 President Bidens’ administration’s decision to blacklist the NSO Group is proving to be a problem for L3Harris, a US defence contractor that wants to buy the Pegasus spyware part of the business: L3Harris in move to buy …
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A simple explanation of what a quantum computer is, without going into quantum states, parallel universes and super position, is that they will be computers that will exponentially expand our computing power beyond todays classical computers. A quantum computer is not a general purpose computer but a computing device. Quantum …
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President Biden has signed a bill that will charge various departments of the US Government to create a taxonomy for cyber crimes and to analyse and publish these results. Other measurements for responses and effectiveness of cyber security responses will be collected, published and acted on. If cyber crime, the …
This story has been doing the rounds for the past few weeks, as the US Government goes about creating a law to make companies, that form part of the critical infrastructure, declare publicly when they have been hacked. US Critical Infrastructure Companies Will Have to Report When They Are Hacked …
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