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Wonder why the hospitality industry struggles? Just read my first-hand story which includes high heels!
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Last year I worked with a man in a cyber security training job from Slovakia and now he has moved outside of the industry. He told many stories about illegal immigrants, gang masters, low pay, people stealing money from their clients (outsourcers), tips nor service charges never going near the staff and a lot more. When it comes to corruption, we tend to think about countries outside of Europe but in reality, corruption in the United Kingdom is just “more polite”.
On to this year, after my wife returned in February after five months abroad, thanks to the Home Office, my wife looked for work. It was her first and hopefully last job in the hospitality industry in England. Finding a job is not hard which is also a warning sign. My wife applied directly to well-known 5* hotel in zone one and did not hear back for weeks. In the meantime, my wife applied for a job through an agency which happened to be at the same hotel.
DLP (Data Loss/Leakage Prevention) should be one chink of your cyber security armour
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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
Giving a baby tortoise a free-range home in Marrakech thanks to SPANA charity
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In traditional shopping areas, they sell baby tortoises openly. My wife asked around and no one claimed it, so she took it to the hotel room! I was a little shocked and luckily, she did not tell the reception. It was given water and, on the way, back to the hotel I bought it a lettuce which was 4-5x bigger than it! Most of the time it was not moving – sleeping which I believe is normal.
There was only one thought in my head - visit SPANA, an English charity with eight branches in Morocco, based 5kms+ away. Marrakech being a city, does not have suitable places to leave it out and outside of Marrakech is rather arid. Giving it to the men selling them is not an ethical idea. The day before (5th) we visited the excellent Jarjeer Mule & Donkey Refuge outside of Marrakech which focuses on mules, donkeys & horses.

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