MS 900 – Microsoft 365 Fundamentals
Read MoreStarting with a new company called rhipe has required me to go and certify in the various Microsoft security solutions portfolio. Rather than provide a lot of detail on how to pass the exam I wanted to collect together the information that I used so that you can find the details yourself and use these…
“Statisticising” cyber security
Read MoreLast night I went fishing in our new boat and we caught 2 Dusky Flatheads, ugly but a great eating fish, sorry I digress but it seemed important at the time, here they are – we had no time to name them: Sorry I got distracted – a challenge with the modern day, living in…
Zero trust Network Architecture, layers!
Read Moremedieval parlance. Unfortunately without adaquate planning and architecture just like castles, ZTNA “Stacks” fall over and sink into the ground.
Supply Chain Attacks
Read MoreSupply chain attacks can be a very serious issue, instead of one hacker to one client, the issue becomes one hacker to many hundreds of client businesses being affected. Many/most staff use the same password for work related services (Kronos) as they do for their corporate work accounts. Therefore each Kronos customer must be forcing…
The best hackers are Russian!
Read MoreThis story is in no way disrespectful to Russians, it is a tribute to one of the Russians I have had the pleasure of working with in my past. Several years ago in prior to my career change into vendor land, I used to be a team leader for a Server team in a large…
CS Energy Breach
Read MoreCS Energy in Queensland, Australia recently made the headlines when a breach was detected and thwarted before any harm was done to their customers. I want to congratulate the response from CS Energy’s cyber security team, they clearly detected and responded to a potentially catastrophic situation in a controlled and timely manner, great work! This…
55% of kiwi businesses fall “victim”
Read MoreI still hate statistics especially when those stats point to something that is so blatantly “not true”! 55% of kiwi businesses fell “victim” to a ransomware attack? How about a more accurate statistic (sorry), 100% of Kiwi businesses received a ransomware loaded email…. even one ransomware loaded email per day! both are pointless and yet…
Statistics, Lies and Automobiles
Read MoreI have a new goal for 2022 and beyond, no more stats! I promise to stop using statistics, statistics are the cyber security industries fear mongering tactic, you must do something about x because 78% of your industry peers are worried about the risk of x; this is most often not relevant, disingenuous and “over…
Worst Case, it is not!
Read Moreexample on Sunday there is a 50% chance of rain as forecast today. So I have to plan for the possibility that it is going to rain as 50% likely or unlikely (depending on my feelings of positivity for the day).
Zero trust buzzword bingo
Read MoreDescribing a host of solutions and practises that are already in-place for experienced security teams and being considered by the many not so experienced security teams looking for guidance, ZTNA is not a one size fits all and the marketing around ZTNA does make this any clearer for business.
