eCrime Wales - excellent cyber security resource

Have to give top marks for the eCrime Wales website. Full of useful info, helpful videos and a link to report eCrime if you become a victim.

Would you let your children wander a red light district?

Some of our children's friends were given tablets for Xmas and it just came to light that some of them still have no parental control software installed. The analogy here is: would you let your children wander a red light district? They would certainly see inappropriate things by accident, and older ones might be tempted to indulge their natural curiosity. It doesn't take long to install something like K9 from the Android Play store, or from the Apple Appstore, to make sure their web browsing is suitably filtered.

Essential Home Computer Security - Protect your Children

I've just published a post with my top 10 tips for home computer security. They cover the basic activities that everyone should be aware of, and follow. However I did miss something very important. It only applies to families, and it's easy to overlook as children grow up and start to access the internet. It is essential that they are protected from accidental, and deliberate, access to inappropriate material. Free e-safety applications such as K9 should be used to filter web browsing. If you have children accessing the internet this is your priority.

Top 10 Tips for Home Computer Security

My latest post on the BT Let's Talk Security blog contains my top 10 tips for home computer security. I've tried to condense key messages from my book into 10 short sentences, in the hope that they can be disseminated and digested more easily. They are also available on the document site scribd.

This is all part of my cunning plan - better home computer security can also provide better security for businesses. Businesses should have a strong interest in making sure their staff understand computer security and apply it at home, and thereby also at work.

If anyone has any thoughts on encouraging this synergy I would be very pleased to hear them.

Enterprise Security Begins at Home

From my contribution to BT's blog - Let's Talk Security - the first of a four part series on home security and how it relates to wider cyber security issues.