Building secure cyber security foundations for startups
Even if you are a solo entrepreneur, working at your kitchen table or in the front seat of your van, you should think about cyber security for your business from the beginning. Cyber criminals don’t care how big or small your organisation is, or what sector you work in—and every organisation has information that might be valuable to an attacker ...
Cyber security for charities
Like any other organisation, charities have information assets to protect. Often, they have less money to spend on protection and are staffed largely, if not entirely, by volunteers. If you work for a charity, this means you have some additional challenges to overcome too, but improving the cyber security defences protecting a charity, isn’t an impossible task. Bring Your Own ...
Cyber Security Foundations: Protecting your Devices
Mobile devices are now an essential part of our lives and often allow us to work while out and about. However, that very mobility means that they typically need even more protection than the computer systems you may have back at the office. They are easy to lose or damage, and they are very easily stolen. And mobile devices may ...
Why does information security matter?
As a small business owner, when you are reminded about backups, passwords and so on, you may be thinking ‘just one more thing to add to my endless to-do list’. So, why should you care about information security? Here are three reasons:
- For most of us, at least here in the UK, it’s the law. If you collect any personal ...
6 podcasts to improve your security: are you listening?
Podcasts are a way of expanding your knowledge and understanding of a topic while on the go, exercising or washing up—and they are good for you, too! We’ve selected a range of cyber security podcasts that you might find interesting. None of them require technical knowledge and all are potentially relevant, covering security at home and in business. Security in ...
Can you trust the website you’re visiting? 10 tips
The internet is built on trust; the more links in to a website, the more trustworthy it is believed to be, and the higher it will rank in search engines. But that doesn’t really help you decide whether you can trust a website you’ve come across by another route. 10 tips to know whether a website is trustworthy None of ...
