Extreme IT: Why hostile environments can be as big a threat a cyber attacks
Sometimes it’s not cybercriminals that are the biggest threat to your network, says Ian Trump, sometimes Mother Nature may be your most dangerous adversary.
This year’s CyberTitan three “Hedgesight is 20/20” pushes the students into realms which are beyond the comfort zone of seasoned security professionals like me.
The website Statista suggests that the number of people using social media worldwide is “projected to increase to almost 4.41 billion [people] in 2025”[1] (from an estimated 3.6 billion, today).
With big ticket firms / household names endlessly getting hacked, it's easy to see why small to mid-sized businesses might feel like they're not in the sights of the bad guys. They're sadly mistaken.
In our last blog post, we talked about the idea that anyone can be a victim of a cyber attack, or incident. In this one, we’ll dive into some of the details, which will hopefully tie things together a little.
In today's interconnected world, where technology drives our daily lives, the prevalence of cybercrime poses a significant threat to people, businesses, and nations alike.
In this post, I'll try and make the case for ensuring that as much as is physically possible, systems and underlying platforms and infrastructure are kept as up to date as possible.
This might seem like a pretty dry subject, but if your company processes card payments, then it needs to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, or PCIDSS. Here's what it's all about and how I go about managing ongoing compliance.
You'll see a lot of advice at around this time of year, which talks about the risks of scammers and general cyber criminals, when it comes to the 'season of goodwill'. The advice is solid and should be heeded, but there's more to it than that. Let me explain.
