Phishing and the cone of shame
Phishing emails can be very convincing, especially if you are busy, stressed or distracted. Being phished can happen to anyone, but it can be very embarrassing to own up to being fooled. Many people are deeply embarrassed about being tricked. This is true in people’s private lives, but the embarrassment may be even worse at work. Your staff may be ...
Do you understand your supply chain?
Supply chain attacks are increasingly common and they don’t only happen to big-name businesses. Wondering what a supply chain attack might look like for you?
- Upstream example: perhaps your supplier updates their software; however, unknown to them, that update contained malware. Your supplier’s system is now compromised, and any information that they held about you is now available to ...
Security controls, layers, onions and ogres
You’ve worked hard to ensure that multifactor authentication is installed across all the web applications that your team uses. It’s taken some time, but now you can show whoever wants to know (hello, Cyber Essentials assessor) that you have multi-factor authentication (MFA). That’s great—MFA is one of the National Cyber Security Centre’s top tips for staying secure online. However, ...
Thinking of buying a franchise?
Setting up as a franchisee is very exciting: congratulations! You’ll be buying into a business with an established business model—you’ll know it can work. You just need to make it work for you, in your area. Have you considered cyber security for your franchise? Typically, in exchange for the initial fee, the company you buy the franchise from will provide ...
Phishing by post
We’ve talked about phishing emails several times before; phishing by post is an interesting variant. Instead of sending an email (which costs virtually nothing for the sender), people in Switzerland have received phishing letters—yes, by post. But how can phishing by post even work, you ask? The letters were designed to resemble a letter from a government agency—so they looked ...
Why should I care about security?
You may be asking yourself ‘why should I care about security?’ This might be because you see your business as of no interest to attackers (this is a myth--small businesses are often attacked), or because you see security as just a cost. We believe that your business security matters. We recognize that your outgoings are going up, whether this is ...
