Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
I am on holiday for the next two weeks – some cold weather walking in the Lake District and the Cairngorms, whilst Diana stays back in the warm office – so it must be time to discuss VPN use again. The photo above is the view whilst I write this …
Let’s start the “Wednesday Bit” for 2024 with a tale of phishing emails, but first… I hope you had a Happy Christmas and New Year. Diana and I did. We did take some time off, spent it with family, travelled a bit and paid rather less attention to our email …
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 …
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 …
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 …
