Last week I talked about mini-disasters. Mini-disasters are local catastrophes that are much more likely to affect your business than the large-scale environmental disasters that scare us the most. By a strange coincidence a few days after I posted the mini-disaster story I was called by one of my new clients. Late on Friday afternoon[…]
Virus protection and firewalls are a necessary part of network security. But you cannot rely on them as the only way to protect your business information from attack. You must make sure that you are also backing up your data. George learnt this lesson “the hard way”. A few weeks ago, [George], [the Manager] of[…]
I think we know more about safe sex than we do about safe computing. Over the last few decades public education has made us aware of the need for safe sex. I think there are lots of lessons for us to learn from the safe sex campaigns as computer users. What is safe sex? Safe[…]