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Slovenia

Details: Category: Travel Reviews; Published: 05 June 2023

Personal recentish travel review with pictures and well researched itinerary of the whole sovereign state.
Ask anyone what they know about Slovenia, and most will struggle. Answers may include Mrs M. Trump comes from there and it was in Yugoslavia. That is, it – few know much about Slovenia and even less have been. The country has a small population, is in the EU and to me seemed to be the most advanced post-Yugoslavian country. Slovenia is close to being landed locked and has just ten kilometres of sea access.

Slovenia is not an all-inclusive resort destination like a few of my past country visits since it is not very cheap and barely has beaches. So, what is there to see? Lakes, castles/forts, medieval towns and underground (caves & mines). The country is very famous for its spectacular caves and those make up the main attractions.

DLP (Data Loss/Leakage Prevention) should be one chink of your cyber security armour

Details: Category: Cyber Security; Published: 12 April 2023

Being that my website is called Data Security Expert and my current job is with a data security vendor… an article on the topic is definitely needed.

Anti-malware, EDR, XDR, MDR, firewalls and more are constant product words we hear; however, they do not generally focus on data protection. To many data protection is GDPR and getting a solicitor to draft a privacy policy no one ever reads and no it does not “physically” protect data. Guess what, if you are hacked or if you have insider threats, a piece of paper (policy) does not do anything to protect data.

How can data can be exfiltrated?

CD/DVD: less likely now since most endpoints do not have an optical drive. External USB writers maybe a concern still though
SD card: some laptops & desktops have a slot or USB adapters can be used
USB drives or external hard drives: super common and easy to smuggle in
Email: mostly Outlook app though webmail as below is another method
Websites: all sorts. Chat apps, file sharing sites, webmail, personal websites etc.
Smartphones: most people do not know that smartphones via USB are classed as MTP (Media Transfer Protocol)
Bluetooth: to phones, tablets, laptops and more
Local apps: great, you have blocked OneDrive web but what about the app installed?
And more sneaky ways

Tunisia

Details: Category: Travel Reviews; Published: 29 March 2023

Personal recentish travel review with pictures and well researched itinerary of the whole sovereign state.
Mention Tunisia to people in the United Kingdom and they will think of: the 2010 kick off of the Arab Spring which started in Tunisia, the 2015 Sousse beach terrorist attack and Spanish style all-inclusive beach side resorts. Many people cocoon themselves in the resort or the city the resort is contained in and rarely see the real varied country.

Tunisia is way more than just a sandy beach - yes I am biased since I get bored of beaches after 30 minutes! Many people apart from me are too chicken to drive such a country. Typically I do not pay a massive amount of attention to FCDO or State Department travel advisories. Mountains, salt lakes, deserts, islands, Islam, Judaism, Berbers, Christians, Roman ruins, Star Wars, Phoenicians ruins, French & Spanish remains and more await you.

This nation is of course part of North Africa with Egypt and Morocco attracting the bulk of foreign tourists. Egypt does not have a French colonial background and feels truly Middle Eastern. Morocco and Tunisia share the same colonial power – the French. Tunisia is the smallest nation in North Africa with just 160,000 KM Sq. This has an advantage since you can explore everything in two weeks if you are quick unlike Algeria, Morocco, or Egypt.