Cyber Essentials at a small business (20 employees) that keeps all business data within SaaS

Background
I’ve recently joined a rapidly growing small business (from 4 to 20 people in last 12 months) with a very DIY IT setup. It’s fallen to me (I’m a developer so I just happen to be sitting nearest IT world…) to improve their secu… Continue reading Cyber Essentials at a small business (20 employees) that keeps all business data within SaaS

Is it true that frontend validation is generally redundant for minimalist contact forms on minimalist environments?

Say I have a continuously upgraded and well maintained LAMP environment with a website which its CMS is all-core and continuously upgraded as well and I have created a simple backend HTML contact form which is CMS-agnostic (not a module of… Continue reading Is it true that frontend validation is generally redundant for minimalist contact forms on minimalist environments?

Can schools track what I’m doing, even though I’m on my personal Gmail account?

My school can track my browsing when I’m at home and using the Google account they gave me, the laptop is my personal one. Is there a way that they could track what I do, even though I’m on my other Google account? My school email has been… Continue reading Can schools track what I’m doing, even though I’m on my personal Gmail account?

How to allow limited admin rights to a user/program in Windows [migrated]

I work in security and often come across situations where a user requests local administrator rights to their machine because 1 program needs to be run as Admin in order to work. Unfortunately, a lot of these programs are critical and so I… Continue reading How to allow limited admin rights to a user/program in Windows [migrated]