Many organisations use Android devices and many of those are owned by their staff and are being used as “BYOD” devices. You need to have a policy about the ones that hold your company’s information. Android is probably the most attacked OS after Microsoft (see article here) so you need …
Are You patched yet?
Following on from yesterdays article about using obsolete kit – almost as bad is using kit that has not been patched. There is a good reason that many of my articles here on Smart Thinking are about patches and updates, it is the most powerful cyber security step you can …
Security Updates
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – an excellent source for keeping up with cyber security vulnerabilities and updates – has issued advisories for a number of products: VMware Releases Security Updates for Aria Operations for Networks | CISA Juniper Networks Releases Security Advisory for Junos OS …
The wrong way to manage security patches…
…let the UK Government scrutinise your security patches before you are allowed to publish them to your vulnerable customers! Sounds like a bad dream. Read on. Security Patches are Important Alarm surrounds a clause in the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act. According to the proposed legislation, tech firms will be mandated …
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Catching up with the CISA Security Advisories
Whilst I have been away my team have been keeping up with security advisories that have impacted our clients. The vendors are the primary sources for my team but they also use the US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) alerts and the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Let’s catch …
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