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Tag: The Wednesday Bit

Posted on 4 March 202526 March 2025

Pancakes and Cyber Security

Pancakes and Cyber Security

I know it is not Wednesday – but here is the “Wednesday Bit” early because today is Pancake Day. Flipping Your Cyber Security: Lessons from Pancakes So, what can pancakes teach us about flipping your cyber security? Just like making the perfect pancake, keeping your business secure requires the right …

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Posted on 26 February 202525 February 2025

When technical cyber security fails you…

hardware and VPNs

It is not unreasonable to say that ransomware is at epidemic levels, report after report says that malware, ransomware and cyber extortion is on the rise (Beaman, Barkworth, Akande, Hakak and Khan. 2021 and Oz, Aris, Levi and Uluagac. 2021), and that cyber security is important. We all take precautions …

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Posted on 19 February 202520 February 2025

Privacy and Encryption

encryption is essential to privacy

Over the past few weeks, I have been writing about privacy for CyberAwake – I have linked the articles below – and at the same time, I was reading up on encryption for an article here last week on the value of encryption – Encryption or Not Encryption. Both sets …

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Posted on 12 February 202513 February 2025

Encryption or Not Encryption 

encryption should not be broken by anyone

I am a great advocate of clients using encryption to enhance their cyber security and I have written a number of articles explaining how encryption is an easy cyber security step to implement. Here are a couple of them:  In Support of Encryption  Email Encryption  I also think encryption is …

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Posted on 5 February 20255 February 2025

Groundhog Day and Cyber Security

Groundhog Day is like teach password hygiene

When Diana is the editor of the monthly Octagon Technology newsletter she likes to have a theme for the month, last month it was “Get Organised” this month her theme is the “Special Days in February” and to start things off I got Groundhog Day and the task of relating …

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