Part 6 of my ransomware mini-series is published today on our online training site CyberAwake. Ransomware: Is it a Threat? (Part 1) A Bag of Spanners – Planning and Preparation (Part 2) Minimise the Damage – Planning and Preparation (Part 3) Detecting Ransomware (Part 4) Ransomware – What Not To …
Ransomware – What Not To Do!
As yesterday was Patch Tuesday – it seemed appropriate to run this latest part of my ransomware series today. This article about ransomware is going to be short and to the point. DO NOT SKIP software or operating system patches and updates. Switch on automatic updates. Finished. Well not quite… …
Minimise the Damage – Planning and Preparation – Ransomware Part 3*
I have a companion article to this one to this one looking at the planning and preparation needed if you are not plugged in! Pull the Plug: But I haven’t got a plug! In my previous ransomware article, in this mini-series, we had a quick look at some spanners and …
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Practice Drinking Coffee* better known as Planning and Preparation
Sorry, this is not a coffee* appreciation article it is an article about planning and preparation for an incident. Planning and Preparation = Good Governance Businesses and organisations need a cyber security policy and a plan covering what they do to mitigate the risk of an incident and what they …
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OSINT – Do you know what it is?
OSINT = Open Source Intelligence. That is that information that a threat actor can gather about you and your organisation, from open source resources – there is no need to hack you if you leave the information lying around. When I was studying, the weeks we covered OSINT, were some …
