I am out of the office this week and that is why I am going to reproduce an article here, that I wrote last year for CyberAwake about the “Out-of-Office” automatic reply. The Out-of-Office Email and How it Compromises Your Organisation’s Cyber Security Before heading out on our leave, we …
Back to Basics – A Password Primer
It is difficult to avoid a password when it comes to managing your cyber security, but they are often overlooked as being “something easy everyone copes with” or the policies relating to them do not add to the cyber security but detract from it. This is why I wrote a …
Password Fatigue – Back to Basics
I have been writing a mini-series about passwords over on CyberAwake and each time I think I have finished, something in the news causes me to write another chapter, which brings me to password fatigue. Just yesterday I was in a Teams meeting with a new client, where they were …
Cyber Security and a Piece of Paper
It all starts with a bit of paper… There has been a lot of coverage of the Conservative Government’s on and off plans for HS2 – this article is not about that, but how this whole debate started. It started with a photograph of discussion papers that should not have …
Realistic Cyber Security – “Out of the mouths of AI”
I am very keen on the work of Bruce Schneier and his stuff pops up here on Smart Thinking from time to time – including this article by Diana: And this quote that I often use when writing about patches and updates: I was interested when on his blog, Bruce …
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