For the Wednesday Bit this week I am going to point you at a series I recently wrote about multi-factor authentication (MFA) – whilst I go out and do some Christmas Shopping! MFA is an important part of any cyber security plan and you should at least understand the basics …
Back to passwords. Again!
It looks like I cannot get away from articles about passwords, which is not really a bad thing as passwords are still fundamental to everyone’s cyber security. I often read in the cyber security technical press that cyber attacks on even the biggest organisations start with the compromise of a …
In Support of Encryption
The idea for this article on encryption came to me whilst reading Joe Haldeman’s The Hemingway Hoax (see the disclaimer at the end of this article) – written in 1990 it was slightly ahead of the computer revolution. In the book, three people are involved in a fraud to produce …
The Wednesday Bit this week
One thing I learnt very quickly whilst studying and after graduation was that my degree in cyber security was only the tool to make me think about cyber security properly and unless I kept my personal study up to date the degree would soon become useless. That is why I …
Fire Risk!
I get asked some strange cyber security questions. Such as “…why should I be bothered with MFA?” Find out the answer to that one this Thursday on Cyber Awake. “Do I really need to think about the paperwork my team leaves lying around our office?”. The answer to that one …