Category: Cybersecurity Basics

You know what it’s like, you have just hit the ‘Register’ button on a website and you’re being asked to provide a password to set up an account. So you try to come up with something that you can remember and meets the website’s password policy which dictates the characters to use and its minimum…

Data is big! Big data is even bigger! Organisations across the world collect a lot of it: customer data, employee data, supplier data, competitor data. Organisations collect customer data in order to gain advantage over their commercial rivals. They use it to learn how customers spend money: which products they are likely to buy based…

Listen to a news report or read a news headline in the paper about a security breach and you are likely to hear from the affected company that it was a victim of a sophisticated attack. The reason for this is simple: no-one wants to admit that they were actually the victim a rather simple…