For #CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth, I'd like to start with a basic assumption we often seem to overlook:
If you don't need the data, don't keep it. Or put another way: you can't lose what you don't have.
Cheap (virtually unlimited) storage encourages us all (people and organizations) to keep lots of sensitive data we don't need - and there are plenty of examples of that coming back to bite people in sensitive places.
As we approach the half way mark for #CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth, I'd like to talk about tech debt. Just like there is a fine line between a classic car and a rustbucket, so too, there is a fine line between a reliable piece of software and an unsupported, unpatched, gaping hole in your cybersecurity defenses.
This isn't just true at the office, this is true at home too. As an example, Android versions 10 and older are no longer supported with security updates. Yet more than 25% of worldwide Android deployments are still on versions 10 or earlier.
Does your SmartTV still get security updates?
Is your WiFi router's plastic turning yellowish?
Are you one of the people propping up that 3% market-share of Windows 7?
Maybe it is time to give up on that "project car" in the front yard and rid yourself of some of that tech debt.
Bill Bernard