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Cyber Essentials at UK MOD: the beginning of a critical mass?

The UK’s Cyber Essentials Scheme took a major step forward at the beginning of this year when the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) mandated...

Reaction to BIS Cyber Security Standard

Making an organisation cyber-secure is difficult. As a supplier, demonstrating to an external customer that you are cyber-secure is even more difficult. Conversely, as...

Documents: a Hackers Gateway to your Enterprise

Your business, just like cybermatters, probably uses documents as a key tool in sharing and disseminating information. As we have known for a very long...

Prehistory of LDAP – CyberMatter

It all started in the basement of the Computer Science department of University College London in about 1988. I was working alongside Paul Sharpe of then of...
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Can you Trust your Handset?

For many years the Jericho forum has been talking about de-perimeterisation. The basic premise being that as more services become cloud oriented and are...

How do you evaluate an Information Exchange Gateway solution?

How do you evaluate an Information Exchange Gateway solution? I’ve blogged previously on Cyber Matters about how Information Exchange Gateways (IEGs) need to be built in...

An introduction to Information Exchange Gateways

Today marks the beginning of an exciting week for me. I am on site at one of our major clients installing an Information Exchange...

Is That Web Site Secure?

To see if a web site is secure, we have been trained to look for the padlock in the browser.  Sadly, not all padlocks are the same…  Take...
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Cyber Essentials: going mainstream?

As I’m sure many of the readers of this blog will be aware Cyber Essentials is a UK Government scheme encouraging organisations to adopt...

The Fourth Elements of Cyber Insurance

Information Assurance or broader Cyber Security has traditionally been a discipline of identifying threats and vulnerabilities then deploying one of three general categories of...

Are you in Charge of your Car’s Computer?

While indulging my interest in the new Audi R8 (completely speculatively of course I wish I could own one!) I was distracted and amazed...

100,000 New Security Threats are Identified Each Day

Interesting infographic from Cisco. I find it encouraging that only 40% of decision makes see security as an inhibitor, i would have assumed much...
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Myths of Wi-fi Security

I found the article 5 Wi-Fi Security Myths You Must Abandon Now interesting, particularly in the context of doing the security basics right.In summary: Myth...

Logging on is becoming too hard to do securely

Unique passwords, unique user names, lie about your personal information, securely your recovery email, two-factor authentication, OAuth caching.ARRGGGHHH, all I want to do is...

Changing 40+ Passwords: Thanks Heartbleed

Following the Heartbleed revelations, the security advice from the great and good was to change all passwords. To support World Password Day, I changed over 40...