Category: Personal Security

Watch your back

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Brutal CIA problems

Trying to get the right balance of Data Confidently, Integrity and Availability is really tough and ever changing.

Any taxi app will need your GPS data to locate you but does that app need to know your ever move ALL the time?

That taxi app now knows when you wake up, go to bed and how often you go to the bottom of your garden. You give this data away for free.  Apps like Uber give the end-user an all or nothing solution knowing very well that users cannot be bother to turn off location services or throw on a VPN when they don’t need a taxi.

Data CIA status is like catching butterflies, it can be done but it’s bloody difficult and requires resilience, tactics and skill.

Your taxi watches you globally
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We told you

It’s not so long ago that the IT sector told the world to get connected or cease to exist.

Now we are telling the world that there is no option but to use the Gigaflops of computing power available in Cloud computing.  Everything is now connected to everything and we are finally globally vulnerable with multiple conflicting privacy, data availability and security issues.

Now what?

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Gettin Jiggy Wit it

Even with all my planning and tactical moves, the onslaught of recent personal activities is causing some anxiety.

Next week, the InfoSec circus hit Olympia, London and I’ll join the thousands of Pros and wannabees mingling with vendors and experts trying to find the next big thing.  Of course, it’s wonderful for career points and gives me the heads up for the rest of the year in terms of staying ahead of the curve.

My goal is simply to maintain balance and avoid time stealers.

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Files restored

Making up after a break-up must produce a massive dose of Dopamine to the brain.

The answer was “Yes” and I’m being restored.  Trouble is my dysfunction is taking its time to re-boot.

So many lessons learned over the past 48 hours.

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Enjoy your orange juice

Lack of investment makes you vulnerable to Cyber attacks.

Poor digital hygiene - 
   Lazy system admin, default settings, 
   Poor system patching or updates.

Lack of training or poor user awareness.

No strategy 
  Poor alignment with business strategy.

Poor monitoring - 
  What happened, when did it happen and why.

Improve this, enjoy an easier online presence and enjoy your orange juice.

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Yeah but, No but, Yeah but, No but

I find it really difficult to deal with people who ask for my professional advice and then turn around and argue with me or blatantly reject my guidance every time.

Week, months and sometimes years later, I’m proved right.

Banks are now targeting small business with Cyber Crime insurance….really. How the hell are you gonna prove you have been breached as opposed to poor digital hygiene.   Leaving a weak password on your office Network is asking for trouble and near on negligent.

I doubt whether an insurance policy will cover you if you fail to patch your systems or set-up 2-factor for yourself and your users.

This is money for old rope and a potential cash cow for insurers to Win while your lose.

I’ve got no time for this….me out.