Have you noticed that whenever there is security threat, new virus, new malware attack, new spyware scam that it seems to be targeted at the most innocent and vulnerable. Why would that be? Zero day exploits, the ones that are found by virus writers are errors in coding in an application. ? Putting numbers into […]
Author Archives: Roger Smith
Are you bringing old thinking to your business resilience?
Business resilience is a relatively new concept in business management. It involves taking large doses of other peoples opinions and ideas to create a better business model for your business. Having the ability to accept this level of staff and user involvement and interaction can have interesting effects on management and corporate thinking. Today’s business […]
Do we all need cyberattack insurance?
It’s the beginning of the new year and thoughts for small and medium business and not for profit organisations (SME) are now turning to increased profits, better marketing and sustainable cash flow, for this year and the future. Why would they be more concerned with their business security than normal. In the normal everyday business […]
Are Users your first line of defense when it comes to cyber security?
In most places of work the first line of defence for protecting your business information is something like your firewall. In most cases this is incorrect. Yes the firewall is designed to protect your business from the nasties of the outside world and most of them do a very good job of it but when […]
7 points to Business resilience.
Business resilient is the new catch cry for large business and corporations. In addition to Disaster Recover (DR), Business Continuity (BC) and Risk Management it is an additional process that small and medium business (SME) need to start implementing to improve their business processes. DR, BC have a number of things in common. They are […]