The 100 Words Project

Your passwords are keys to the kingdom and it only makes sense to protect them. Rather than worry about what constitutes a secure password…

Backing up critical data has been one of the longest standing bust most often overlooked strategies. With a wealth of options to choose…

Email is arguably the longest serving yet most abused tool we have in business. We use email for personal and business for endless reasons…

Generic exploit mitigation is not so much about vulnerabilities but rather methods used to exploit them. Patching vulnerabilities is…

Does the Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme create legal opportunism? While this amendment has been a step forward in privacy protection, are…

Who wants to save money and who wants to help others? Most of us do, but what price are we willing to pay? Everyone has seen the “charity…

Some understand what their “Digital Footprint” is, but how many are aware of their “Digital Shadow?” The term has existed for over a…

You must ask four questions about responsibly managing the private data of others. First, “Do we possess personally identifiable and…

In the digital age, is privacy merely a concept? With the ability to universally share information, voluntarily or not, the only privacy…

Interacting with people feels like a Cybersecurity Penetration Test some days. “Whitebox” people (friends) know us, like us, know our…

For some time, several schools have been using a software product, “eSafe Global”, to combat cyberbullying. We are progressing, but the…

During my school years, I was bullied frequently but my salvation was escaping it by going home when the bell rang. While some abuse…

Our cyber security responsibilities are a “Cyber Grenade” we must carry whether we are aware or not. The more information assurance…

If Cloud is part of your business strategy, you need CASB. A Cloud Access Security Broker sits between you and your cloud services…

Our increasingly cynical nature now asks, “how will this data be used against me?” instead of “how does providing this data benefit me?”…

I have not hidden that my career goal is to become a Chief Information Security Officer for an organisation focusing on their operational…

It sounds odd, but I have had few truly negative experiences. Whether a misfortune of my own or that of someone else, a lesson has…

When a data breach occurs, those in cybersecurity can be viewed as opportunistic despite a benevolent motivation. We want to help, but we…

Our consumption of mass media is intriguing. With social media, online videos and audio, plus traditional media, we are rich for choice…

In an era of apparent cyber narcissism, one wonders why we seek virtual validation through social media to measure our worth. We obsess…

Cryptocurrencies are both exciting and terrifying at the same time. They have received considerable attention lately, both positive and…

The rhyme “Sticks and Stones” was clearly written long before the Internet came to be. Nearly every day we read about trolls getting a…

Spectre and Meltdown gave us two points to consider. First, your defence in depth strategy leveraging patching is more valuable than ever…

One may argue the Cybersecurity skills gap is partly due to how we fill these roles by overlooking diversity. Thinking we must have a…