This week’s missive contains as Ben Elton used to say, “a little bit of politics..” It seems you can’t get away from the deluge of political commentary at present and we apologise if we appear to be adding to the general maelstrom of opinion. It’s not our intention, it’s just that a current political story happens to […]
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Feb
Feb
We doubt it, he probably just needs some awareness training You’ve probably heard about Jeff Bezos’ personal and sensitive media being bandied about by the National Enquirer. No need for us to dwell on that, or comment on the US political machinations that could be behind it. Instead, prompted by an article by Rory Cellan-Jones […]
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Feb
Feb
You may have noticed that unicorns are in the news a lot of late. Often, they are referred to in relation to Theresa May’s obviously unachievable Brexit ambitions but these are not the only unicorns in the, erm.. unicorn stable. In fact, they come in many different guises: There are the blockchain unicorns – fantastical […]
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Jan
Jan
A timely reminder with CIA – it’s not all about the C & I On Thursday, 6th December, users of the O2 mobile network suddenly found that they had no internet connection. In addition, and initially contrary to O2’s initial communications, many users found they had zero or sporadic voice connectivity as well. Everyone was asking the […]
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Dec
Dec
500 Million records in the Marriot Data Breach I imagine you have all now read with dismay but possibly not that much surprise at the latest ‘megahack’ over at Marriott Hotels. We’re not going to bombard you with more of the same. Instead, we thought this is a good opportunity to highlight a very unwelcome […]
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Oct
Oct
In this landscape, keeping your staff engaged is key to creating and maintaining a culture of information security awareness. The key is giving them a constant ‘drip-feed’ of illumination in the form of bite-sized multi-media dispatches. Here’s an infographic to show you how Now that we have shown you the key to how we keep your staff engaged […]
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Oct
Oct
Workshops and eLearning are two distinctly different methods of delivering subject matter. They can work well in isolation but often deliver the best results when used in tandem. You may also want to check out a related infographic: ‘6 Must-have eLearning Metrics’ available by clicking HERE Here at Risk Crew, we do workshops right. Our Infomation […]
eLearning is one of the most powerful tools for training your staff. It has many benefits over traditional face to face learning. For example, organisations report a 14% improvement in productivity due to eLearning over face to face learning. But it isn’t that simple. For eLearning to have these great results, you need to be able […]
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Sep
Sep
Social Engineering Attacks Social engineering. Nowadays it’s everywhere, and you couldn’t even know about it. Where the normal idea of a “hacker” is someone sitting in their room with a dark hoodie on looking at multiple monitors of code, social engineering is the hacking of humans. We have created this infographic to detail some of the […]