Cyber Weekly Flash Briefing 24 July 2020: Cyber crime up 23% Over Past Year, Nearly 50% of employees have made a serious security mistake at work, 99.9% of Hacked Microsoft Accounts Don’t Use 2FA
Read MoreWelcome to this week's Black Arrow cyber tip Tuesday, this week we are talking about lessons we can learn from the Titanic.
Cyber security is a lot like the titanic, people often ignore warnings until it's too late. The day the Titanic sank the crew received seven iceberg warnings, yet such was the competition to make the crossing in six days, orders were given to maintain the speed of the ship.
They thought they could ignore the warnings and steamed on ahead in the mistaken belief they would be unaffected.
Now, if they'd heeded the warnings and slowed down they would have stood a better chance of avoiding the icebergs, and in particular the iceberg that led to their sinking.
That's not to say good security means you need to slow down, not wishing to mix my metaphors but brakes were not added to cars to make them go slower, brakes were a necessity to be added to cars to allow them to go faster.
So don't slow down necessarily, just maybe don't avoid the warnings and don't believe that somehow you will remain safe as you steer your own ships through a see unfortunately filled with icebergs.
Read MoreA summary of the top cyber news from the last week and how they relate to business and individuals in Guernsey and the CI. This week: staff members susceptible to phishing attacks, businesses failing to implement IT disaster plans, ransomware unlikely to go away when chance of being caught is so slim, the most notable cyber events of the last 10 years, authorities take down remote access trojan.
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