Linked – Phishing 101 at the School of Hard Knocks
Universities are an obvious target for hackers, for some really obvious reasons. Usually you have a relatively inexperienced IT workforce, a risk-unaware user base, and one thing that may come as a...
View ArticleLitigation Support In a Law Firm – Vendors Are Coming for Your Job
Hidden away in a recently seen blog post about moving to the cloud on Cicayda’s website this week was this little nugget: There is absolutely no reason to keep hiring internal staff for litigation...
View ArticleLinked – Why companies need to implement a ‘zero trust’ approach to their...
This is not as easy as he makes it sound: And then lastly is learning from all these three elements – the user, the device, the least privilege, and adapting your policies. So it’s a constant learning...
View ArticleLinked – Former Google In-House Discovery Leader Says It’s Important to...
You know, we could ask the same question at many corporate law departments, and also at law firms. “When I came to Google my hypothesis was, what would happen if you really invested in the people?” she...
View ArticleWhat I’m Sharing (weekly)
How prepared is your IT department for the next legal hold Human error to blame for 9 in 10 UK data breaches last yea Smart Cities seem inevitable – but how smart is the cybersecurity protecting them?...
View ArticleLinked – Top 7 Tips: How Any Employee Can Help Guard Against Cyber-Attacks
As pledged last week, in my piece on cryptolockers, today I am running a code of best practice to guard against email-related cyber-attacks. The bulk of cyber-defence, in terms of software and server...
View ArticleLinked – 37% of IT pros to look for new jobs in 2017
“If your IT department isn’t already worried about staff retention, some new stats might change that. A new poll finds 37% of IT pros plan to begin searching for a new employer in 2017, and 26% plan to...
View ArticleLinked: Offboarding tips will prevent employee data theft when people leave...
Now, I've left a few jobs over the years, including some that were remote, which I think is a new challenge for a lot of places right now. Most of the time, the departing employee is not exactly top of...
View ArticleLinked – In-office work is the real threat to cybersecurity
There is something to this. How many times has someone fallen victim to phishing or drive-by downloads and wondered why the IT department didn't build better protection? (I've seen it!) The post Linked...
View ArticleLinked – Wait, is cloud bad?
Maybe the big thing is that most companies are not tech companies. They use tech, and they have an IT department, but it's not their core function. If it's not your core function do you want to be in...
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