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Highland News & Media Cyber Advice Column: Awareness Training
If human error accounts for 95% of cyber security breaches, how difficult is it to flip people from being the weakest, last line of defence to the strongest, first line.
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Why there’s #NoWrongPath
“No wrong path.” When it comes to education and career choices, I couldn’t agree with this statement more. Let me explain why.
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Highland News & Media Cyber Advice Column: Cyber Security is a Journey
“There were certain things regarding cybersecurity I just assumed my staff would know about. It turns out I was wrong.” This is what a senior manager said to me recently during a meeting. A member of staff had been caught out by a phishing email. There were plenty of warning signs that the email was a scam, however on this occasion the recipient missed all of them. Why was that?
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What is it that puts people off cybersecurity?
In my experience it’s a belief that it’s too complicated, it costs too much money or it’s something that they do not need to worry about. Unfortunately, when people have those beliefs, it can be very difficult to get them to change their mind.
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Where should we point the gun of risk mitigation when it comes to IoT?
I recently spoke to a colleague who wondered how easy it would be to plug some cables in to a smart device for the oilfield and extract the data from it, without the client being aware. This is of course eminently possible, but it doesn’t really point the gun of risk mitigation where it should be.
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Neil Christie provides business insights in The P&J Small Business Focus
Each week The Press and Journal asks small businesses key questions. This week, they spoke to our founder Neil Christie who gave some very honest insights into how he got to where he is today.
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As a business, how do we address our employees’ inadequate home connection? And whose responsibility is its provision?
When you consider that a Gartner survey revealed that over two-thirds (74%) of companies plan to permanently shift employees to remote work after the Covid-19 crisis ends and that by 2025, an estimated 70% of the workforce will be working remotely at least five days a month., it’s clear that to sustain a successful remote working model while maintaining office level productivity, the question of acceptable home broadband quality must be addressed.
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Inspiring Aberdeen City senior pupils at LIFT-OFF! 2021
The sky really will be the limit for senior Aberdeen school pupils at a special event launched by a NASA astronaut. LIFT-OFF!, an event focused on hope, aspiration, and employment for the future, aims to change the narrative around young people’s future skills and jobs opportunities, and encourage them to aim for the stars.
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Women in Tech: Dorito-fuelled but no bra burning
“Good morning, you’re through to Converged – Stacey speaking. How can I help?”
Quite often this is met with a request to speak to one of the tech guys.
This is not meant with any malice or ill nature. The perpetuated stereotype of the service desk tech – as parodied by Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd – paints a picture of a socially awkward, funny and Dorito-fuelled man who will no doubt check that you have indeed turned your PC on and off again.
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Why you should rethink where you take inspiration from this World Password Day
@berd33n1903. Not a bad password, don’t you think? Many years ago, this used to be one of my passwords. As an Aberdeen FC fan it was an obvious way to make a password I would remember. I also thought I was being clever by replacing the “A” with an “@” and changing the “e’s” to “3”.