Authentication, Authorisation and Accountability. This is the third part of a three-part series looking at the basics of the cyber security principle of “AAA”. Day Three – Accountability Accountability is probably the least enforced part of our Triple A principle in most organisations. But if you do embrace it, it can have a powerful impact …

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In response to Clive’s Blog on Smart Thinking about incident response – he couldn’t have picked a worse time. Right in the middle of putting together and planning some of the largest projects we have in the pipeline and organising the day-to-day support work – I did not want to play! (Clive said he wouldn’t …

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Restarting  – Welcome to our new blog Our blog is now the responsibility of our excellent support team, so they can share their IT support advice and stories with you. However, they are busy this week moving a large office and launching a website for a company, both on very short notice (sometimes clients do …

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Today, is a a day worth celebrating. Today we published our thousandth post over on the Smart Thinking Solutions cyber security news site. Clive has written a good article that covers how and why we started Smart Thinking and he has picked out 10 topics that we write about, illustrating them with example posts from …

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My Regular Cyber Security Round-up will be posted on Saturday this week as I am traveling on Friday. I write blog posts and articles for three sites, Smart Thinking, CyberAwake and Octagon Technology, on cyber security and technology related subjects – although sometimes the links are a bit tenuous… Because It’s Friday – IT and …

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Last week I attended a number of very interesting talks, ranging from those given at my party’s Spring Conference, via a talk from one of the professors at my university to a conference hosted by Computing magazine.  A recurring theme seems to be the Digital Divide. What do I mean by the Digital Divide? Well, …

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