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		<title>Password complexity? Ba!d34rD4sh*.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.octree.co.uk/2012/12/10/password-complexity-bad34rd4sh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Richardson CISSP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if information security isn’t hard enough already to deter the cyber-criminal &#8211; hell bent on stealing our critical data, our bank and credit card details, our intellectual property and client information – it seems that to encourage users to apply some degree of complexity (or should that read common sense?) to their password selection [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.octree.co.uk&#038;blog=17433752&#038;post=225&#038;subd=octreeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SMEs take note: it&#8217;s not just big companies that get hit by Cyber Crime.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.octree.co.uk/2012/12/04/smes-take-note-its-not-just-big-companies-that-get-hit-by-cyber-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Richardson CISSP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share with you an article I came across recently written by a fellow Certified Security Professional, Corey Nachreiner of Watchguard, which was published in the UK’s Business Computing World. It reinforces everything I have been saying to small business owners, particularly those in the professional industries who have an awful lot more [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.octree.co.uk&#038;blog=17433752&#038;post=218&#038;subd=octreeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Once again a public sector organisation has fallen foul of the Information Commissioner.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.octree.co.uk/2012/10/17/once-again-a-public-sector-organisation-has-fallen-foul-of-the-information-commissioner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Richardson CISSP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again a public sector organisation has fallen foul of the Information Commissioner and received a hefty monetary penalty for Data Protection Act breaches. The UK regulator has fined Greater Manchester Police after officers were found to be regularly using unencrypted memory sticks to store personal data. The poor data security practices came to the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.octree.co.uk&#038;blog=17433752&#038;post=215&#038;subd=octreeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 10 biggest mistakes made when moving (or considering a move!) to the cloud</title>
		<link>http://blogs.octree.co.uk/2012/05/16/the-10-biggest-mistakes-made-when-moving-or-considering-a-move-to-the-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Richardson CISSP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share this with you all, courtesy of David Cartright at CloudPro, as further justification that “Cloud”, the current buzzword and trend, is not for everyone, and if not managed correctly will not deliver the economies of scale originally intended. The 10 biggest mistakes made when moving (or considering a move!) to the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.octree.co.uk&#038;blog=17433752&#038;post=207&#038;subd=octreeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Business leaders need to take note quickly, and learn to recognize that information security risks are real risks to their success.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.octree.co.uk/2012/05/02/business-leaders-need-to-take-note-quickly-and-learn-to-recognize-that-information-security-risks-are-real-risks-to-their-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Richardson CISSP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read this article on SecurityWeek’s website, courtesy of its author Oliver-Christopher Rochford  a writer and Security Consultant from Germany. I found it so compellingly close to my real world experiences I wanted to share it accordingly. Clearly there is a place for security people despite their apparent “lack” of business sense. I mean what [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.octree.co.uk&#038;blog=17433752&#038;post=203&#038;subd=octreeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social engineering is possibly the most effective hacking exploit we may face today – and possibly the easiest to perpetrate. Why?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.octree.co.uk/2012/04/04/social-engineering-is-possibly-the-most-effective-hacking-exploit-we-may-face-today-and-possibly-the-easiest-to-perpetrate-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Richardson CISSP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because it is human nature to want to help. This is an extract from a recent publication that I found illuminating, and essential for anyone concerned about such threats. Education, education, education.   So, what is Social Engineering? Social engineering is the art of gaining access to buildings, systems or data by exploiting human psychology, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.octree.co.uk&#038;blog=17433752&#038;post=199&#038;subd=octreeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FSA Data Protection Compliance – Best Practices Review</title>
		<link>http://blogs.octree.co.uk/2012/03/15/fsa-data-protection-compliance-best-practices-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Richardson CISSP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently commissioned, on behalf of a compliance adviser practice, to carry out an information security review of a 30 user financial services organisation located in the Midlands. Obviously fully aware of the likely penalties the FSA can administer, as well as the threat of the Information Commissioners Office imposing a fine of up [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.octree.co.uk&#038;blog=17433752&#038;post=191&#038;subd=octreeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stolen NASA laptop had Space Station control codes&#8230; and no encryption for supervillains to crack!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.octree.co.uk/2012/03/05/stolen-nasa-laptop-had-space-station-control-codes-and-no-encryption-for-supervillains-to-crack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Richardson CISSP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect this may be just about the highest profile incident of laptop security negligence we have experienced to date. For the full article please follow this link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/01/nasa_stolen_laptop_unencrypted/ In another article on the BBC website reporting on NASA security breaches it was claimed that: The agency suffered &#8220;5,408 computer security incidents&#8221; between 2010 and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.octree.co.uk&#038;blog=17433752&#038;post=184&#038;subd=octreeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BT severs all ties with Cloud….  in parts of Hertfordshire anyway.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Richardson CISSP</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.octree.co.uk/?p=178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The small business (or maybe that should read “small minded”) cloud evangelists that I come across with alarming frequency cannot fail to admit that the heavy reliance on a monopolistic dinosaur of a broadband infrastructure does not really lend itself to cloud computing for everyone (please see a recent blog article below regarding cloud suitability). [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.octree.co.uk&#038;blog=17433752&#038;post=178&#038;subd=octreeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping your laptops secure</title>
		<link>http://blogs.octree.co.uk/2012/01/09/keeping-your-laptops-secure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Richardson CISSP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notebook PCs are ideal for small businesses. They make it easier to work flexibly. You can move from the office to a client location and back home again accompanied by all your programs and data. However, their very portability makes them easy to steal or lose. Take data protection seriously and start protecting your laptops!!! [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.octree.co.uk&#038;blog=17433752&#038;post=176&#038;subd=octreeblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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