Cloudflare, a company best known for protecting clients from various flavours of denial of service attacks, has done the research and calculated that 6.8% of all internet traffic is out to get you. This is an increase of last year’s findings. Application Security report: 2024 update – Cloudflare Cloudflare believes …
NHS Cyber Security Gaps
I often feature articles here on Smart Thinking about the cyber security issues the NHS suffers. I think it is important as it illustrates to any organisation that if you make a mistake there can be serious consequences for you and your stake holders – hopefully not as disastrous as …
Does a VPN work?
Today I was going to talk about about the importance of monitoring your information storage and user accounts, but Mr Putin’s government changed my mind, as they have compelled Apple to remove VPN apps from the Russian App Store. (Gatlan, 2024) What is a VPN? It stands for Virtual Private …
Back-to-Basics – The Collection III
Having come back from a week’s holiday, I have been busy catching up, so this week the Wednesday Bit about reminding you about my collection of Back-to-Basics cyber security primers. Why am I doing this? Because we can all benefit from some cyber security training, whatever our level of expertise. The articles …
Keep control of your information
I have implemented information control for one-person organisations – because even a small organisation will have some need to share information with other people and organisations. It is an essential step in any IT and Cyber Security Audit to examine who, has access to what information and what steps are …