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Website security speak is often marketing baloney speak

Details: Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

We buy products and services online every day, and naturally the supplier will claim their website security is fantastic. Often we see sentences like: “We use the latest encryption technology, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for encryption and authentication to protect the transfer of your personal data from unauthorised parties. SSL software uses 128-bit encryption to secure the personal information you input before it is sent to us”.

But what does this mean? If you wanted to stop someone reading a postcard you could write the postcard and put it in an envelope. A basic postcard can be thought of as ‘insecure’, but now it cannot be read until it is taken out of its envelope at the other end. This is a bit like SSL encryption; it turns clear text into jumbled numbers and letters. ‘Great!’ you may think, but the postcard is still insecure before and after it is placed in the envelope.

Cloud computing: don't put all your eggs in one basket

Details: Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

We have all the heard the maxim ‘don't put all your eggs in one basket’ but what does it have to do with cloud computing?

Nearly every single IT support company in the country is offering the latest craze of cloud computing to the masses and, lest you accuse me of shooting myself in the foot, I do have a cloud division of my company, albeit not conventional cloud computing.

Is technology moving too quickly to be secure?

Details: Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

Mainstream computers have only been around for around thirty years but businesses, consumers, hardware manufacturers and software vendors appear to be trying to make the humble (and relatively new) desktop computer defunct.

Back in the 1980s, the desktop didn't really exist but secure, stable, speedy, albeit unfriendly, giant mainframe computers did exist. Unfriendly they may have been, but at least they were simple, secure and stable.