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So many of the serious security flaws we see in software today are as a result of simple human error. Training people makes a fundamental difference when it comes to protecting our online systems.
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In security, we can’t simply decry everything that doesn’t meet the strongest possible criteria, we have to balance this off against the upsides of the approach.
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In security, we can’t simply decry everything that doesn’t meet the strongest possible criteria, we have to balance this off against the upsides of the approach.
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The information security world is full of serious incidents that have already occurred but as yet, we have no idea of. These “unknown unknowns” are rampant and we’ll see many of them again in 2017.
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The information security world is full of serious incidents that have already occurred but as yet, we have no idea of. These “unknown unknowns” are rampant and we’ll see many of them again in 2017.
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We like to get all retrospective at the end of the year and look back at the last 12 months. For 2016, my biggest takeaway is that we’ve learned how little we know.
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We often see account compromises occur en masse on other websites after a data breach due to customers reusing credentials. How responsible should those other sites be for defending against this pattern?
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Data breaches often as a result of an organisation’s partner losing customer information. Who’s ultimately responsible when this happens and would further checks and balances on the partner have stopped it from happening in the first place?
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You may believe your site holds nothing of any significant value, but if you’re holding user credentials then you have the keys to unlock their other valuable things.
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Every now and then, an event happens that reminds us just how fragile the web is and how we’ve applied fix on top of fix to try and keep it all from falling apart.
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