Cyber-security

For any organisation in today's world, there are 3 important goals: Business: You need to bring business, which brings you money and is responsible for org growth. Delivery : You should have a quality Client Delivery on TIME Security: You should be secured and maintain all your data, assets (clients') safe Unfortunately, as I write this there are several business units who say, for me Business is important. And some client delivery managers say, Delivering the deliverable is important to me and our Cyber guys say Securing the company is important to me. So, are these three pouches of a carom board? Are these 3 goals of a company which pulls each other in its own direction? Have you not noticed a difference of opinion when you talk to a person engaged with business, a person who is responsible for delivering the business and person who is trying to protect the business assets and data. At least in many organisations? Lets take an example of a company call...

How Can I Secure my Home from Hackers We have talked in my previous blogs that we all must be cautious about hackers around us, no matter in what industry we are in and even if we are home makers. The obvious question that comes is HOW? Let me start with a story in my family.  My in-law used to be government servant and its been a decade since he is retired. He always carries multiple debit cards and stores his secret PIN in an "encrypted" format (I wont reveal the key, LOL) in his diary. He was out with the whole family for two days. He has not used his card many times, but when he came back, he noticed he has lost $$$ from his account. And it was using a well known e-commerce payment system, with no details ! He was shocked, we were too.  We, being a Cyber Security minded people, started digging more into the transaction history, time of the event etc, to understand more and possibly try to know what or who could have misused the card. After all the dis...