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Posted on 18 July 20259 July 2025

Because It’s Friday – Holiday Wishes

because it's friday

This week’s side journey before the weekend is about my holiday and is all Randal Munroe. First a beer story. The second “Because It’s Friday” video is about sunshine. These are two things I hope to get on my holiday. Have a good weekend. Clive Summer Cyber Security Webinars The …

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Posted on 16 July 20259 July 2025

More about your VPN

use a VPN when out of the office

This is a follow-on article to last week’s article Let’s Talk About Your VPN. You should read that article first, to save me having to explain what a VPN is and why I am talking about them now. VPN Issues I spent last week talking up the cyber security advantages of …

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Posted on 9 July 20259 July 2025

Let’s Talk About Your VPN

Pine Lake Resort portable office with a VPN

I am about to head off on holiday so now is a good time to rerun a two part series I wrote last year looking at VPNs and how they can defend your privacy whilst away on holiday using public WiFi points. A VPN – your own private internet If …

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Posted on 11 September 202412 September 2024

Information Security in the Office (pt.3)

end of life infrastructure

This is part 3 of a short series looking at information security in the office – here are links to part 1 and 2. Information Security in the Office (pt.1) The Printer is the Issue Information Security in the Office (pt.2) Forgotten Technology Today we are going to look at …

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Posted on 5 September 20245 September 2024

Back-to-Basics – Information Security

The second part to my Back-to-Basics primer on Information Security has been published on CyberAwake today: Information Security in the Office (pt.2) Part 1 is here.

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