In the past, I’ve spent hours on the phone trying to show someone how to configure an email client.
Small business put up little fight hackers and snoopers.
Normally intelligent individuals suddenly become dummies when faced with anything “technical”.
Individuals are routinely breached because they are either
Too busy to care about basic hygiene (tech bits)
Have no password management skills
Have no trusted technical support partner
Do not monitor their set-up
…or most importantly, not bothered.
These same individuals take extreme cause with their daily online banking.
I worry profusely about everything, sometimes it cripples my ability to actually move forward with thought or actions.
The Walking Dead: Michonne – always worrying
I caught an interesting comment from a linguist stating that Chinese verbs never changes. Present, past or future tense are all the same so a statement like “Tomorrow it rained” is perfected acceptable.
Maybe this can help me get a hold of my anxiety and worry about the future and accept what is unavoidable.
Ok, this week I’m going to have to admit my failings even if those around me do not.
As a Small Business or individual, If you were going to hire a Private IT Security Professional here’s what you should be looking for.
Trust me I’m a Professional – Until Dawn™
Loving this 2016 IT Security Job Description
Experience as part of an incident response team (either in-house or as a consultant).
An ability to provide technical analysis and direction for investigations.
An understanding of networking protocols and infrastructure designs; including, firewall functionality, routing, encryption, host and network intrusion detection systems, load balancing, and other network protocols.
An understanding of the current vulnerabilities, response, and mitigation strategies used in cyber security.
Willing to work out of hours and public holidays as part of a shift Rota and when on call as needed.
Inherent passion for information security and service excellence.
An ability to analyse and reverse engineer various file types including providing dynamic and static analysis of malware artefacts and binaries as well as other malicious attack files.
Be able to complete post-mortem analysis of network logs, traffic flows and other activities to identify malicious activity on a network.
I cannot be bothered to delete Exchangeable Image File (EXIF) data recently so if you dig deep enough you’ll know when and where I took this image and on what device.
Cyber Crime, Cyber Bullies, Cyber Idiots…….and now Cyber Clean.
I saw this on a friend’s shelf and was sniggering for ages, marketing people enjoying the Cyber-hype.
Stick the word “Cyber” on everything
The product itself is pretty cool and basically a keyboard and device cleaner that works.
We are safe and clean
….….for now.
Available from JOKER in Hong Hong…honest I’m not making this stuff up.
Outside of being insured up to the eyeballs, there are things I tend to avoid thinking about and planning for.
You would think that I would have learned by now.
Personal disaster recover planning:
physical injury, economic injury, emotional injury
Separations or Divorce planning:
Not always till Death do us Part
Last Will & Testament: But I have no money
Relocation planning: I really hate moving
Burial plan: what does it matter, I’m dead anyway
Data recovery plan: We assume the info will be somewhere
Friend and Family communication plan:
we assume we will find them on Social Media
Family Password sharing:
who has the NetFlix password or the British Gas log-in?
No mobile, no money, no place to sleep.
No one is immune. Following a personal disaster, we are on our own for an unknown period of time and typically the massive emotion trauma, loss of communications, and poor access to resources can set you back for years and for some it is unrecoverable.
I kinda have this info together but nuff information is only in my head buried and unreachable by others.
You have to be in a “good” place mentally to start working out a strategy to handle DMD and I’m far for that right now.
…to be continued by 22-October.
Way too much personal conflict going. I see the traits clearly.
Lateness at work
Unscheduled days off
Emergency time off
Excessive use of personal phone
Difficulty concentrating on InfoSec technical detail.
No medication needed today.
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