Does your business have a cyber security skill-gap?
The UK Government issued their 2023 report on cyber security skills in the UK labour market recently. In summary, it says that UK businesses have a cyber security skills gap. In good news, almost every business surveyed is confident about creating backups, and controlling who has admin rights. Most businesses are confident that their staff can identify fraudulent emails/websites and ...
Unravelling your supply chain security
Most businesses, even the smallest, will have some kind of supply chain. Not all will present cyber security risks, of course, but as your organisation grows, the number of suppliers on whom you depend will grow and your supply chain will become more complex. Supply chain attacks are frequent – according to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), they made ...
Taking on your first employee? Don’t forget security
Taking on your first employee is a huge step for any new business. There’ll be a lot for you to think about: registering as an employer, taxes, pension scheme, employer’s liability insurance, training and, of course, security. There’s the personal security/health and safety aspect: is your workplace going to be a safe and secure place for them to work? And ...
Artificial Intelligence: what is your policy?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already here and it’s in use in business and cyber security every day, including for spam filtering, malware detection, and intrusion detection and prevention systems. The recent flurry of activity around AI is around generative AI, in particular ChatGPT and GPT-4, as these tools are becoming publicly available and easy to use. Even in these relatively ...
Encryption is not just for spies
When we talk about food or walks around our pets, we spell out the words so that they don’t understand what we are talking about. Some dogs can work out what W-A-L-K means though, so you might have to mix it up a bit, and randomly use the letter sounds as well as the letter names to make it more ...
Preparation and practice: problem solving
Pilots practice solving problems under pressure. They practice things going wrong, unpredictably. Sometimes they practice several things going wrong together – or one after another. And, they are assessed on how well they handle the situation. This is an important part of the continual training that pilots undergo: practicing how to identify a problem quickly and deciding how to handle ...
