John Bradshaw
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Thursday 22nd February 2012 – 10:00 – 10:45
Join me, John Bradshaw, as I guide you through the Microsoft strategy on the Consumerisation of IT and how it will affect your business. Microsoft is committed to delivering a range of productivity, security and development tools to help you leverage the social network, cloud and personal systems [...]
Who would have thought that printers would be a practical threat vector? I didn’t until it was pointed out to me, at which point palm meets forehead because it is unbelievably obvious!! Every single office I’ve ever worked in has MFPs, Multi Function Printers, which allow you to scan, email, fax, photocopy and even print.
I find adverts on websites annoying, really, really annoying (which is why they’re not on this site). I use IE exclusively in the office and I thought it made sense to block it, so that when I’m reading Ars Technica or El Reg my eyes stop bleeding. I found a great article that explains how [...]
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
-Benjamin Franklin
I was just browsing the interwebs, as I am want to do, and I came across a few interesting articles about consumer safety online. I thought I’d summarise the advice:
Do NOT click on things you don’t understand
Do NOT install things unless you’re really sure
Update your computer daily*
Update [...]
What do you want?
Information.
Whose side are you on?
That would be telling. We want information. Information. Information.
You won’t get it!
-The Prisoner
Look at your estate, now back to me, look at all the documents you have, now back to me. I bet they’re scattered everywhere?? I bet you’ve got weird drafts of documents from projects you stopped running [...]
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
-Steve Wozniak
Voicemail hacking is a problem, one that is now widely popularised in the media, and I’m not going to discuss the political ramifications but it does present an interesting security question. The issue is that voicemail systems haven’t fundamentally changed in [...]
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Clifford Stoll
Passwords are always a thorny topic in IT departments, and everyone (including their Aunty) has an opinion. I’ve seen loads of different policies, rules of thumb and fudges trying to get users to keep your [...]
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