Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Let’s start the Spring run of the “Wednesday Bit” with a positive story. A story in which, if you choose to participate, your online privacy will get that much better. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Privacy Badger I have written about Privacy Badger before, as part of a previous “Wednesday …
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 …
I have written about the risks of Android apps – a lot, see the highlights of the issue here: Device Security (Pt. 2) | Smart Thinking Solutions However to reinforce the statement that apps downloaded from the Google Play Store can be a serious security risk on your organisation’s information, …
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 …
I thought I was done with device security for the time being – but then, of course, I got a question from a client. “What about USB drives?” Rather than write a completely new article let me reprint an article I wrote for CyberAwake looking at USB storage security – …
Continue reading “USB cyber-attack – Device Security (Pt. 4)”
This article follows on from last week’s Why the “Principle of Least Privilege” works and something for free…. If you want the something for free, then you had better read that article first! Let’s start with a simple definition. The Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) is a fundamental concept in …
Continue reading “What the “Principle of Least Privilege” does for you? (pt. 1)”
I have written a number of articles over the past few weeks about how organisations need to be thinking about theirs’s and their employee’s devices and cyber security. Device Security (Pt. 1) Device Security (Pt. 2) Device Security Just One More Thing… When hardware reaches EOL – Device Security These …
