Rapid Reads – Page 2 – Security Queens

Risky Business: A Down-Low on Risk Management Basics

by SophiaGovernance, Risk and Compliance, Rapid Reads 8 January 202112 March 2021No Comments

Estimated difficulty: 💜🤍🤍🤍🤍 First thing’s first! Let’s talk definitions. So, what actually is risk management? To put it simply, it is the management of the risk within an organisation (doh!). The risk management process involves identifying security risks and creating and implementing plans to mitigate them. Defining Risk Risk is defined as a potential event …

Subnetting IPv4 – TL;DR

by MorganRapid Reads, Technical Fundamentals 28 August 2020No Comments

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Every time I attend a course and someone tries to explain subnetting to me, they pretty much un-teach me it and I have to go away and re-learn how it works.

Locked Out: What is Ransomware?

by SophiaAwareness, Rapid Reads, Technical Fundamentals 14 August 202013 August 2020No Comments

Estimated difficulty: 💜🤍🤍🤍🤍 Ransomware can be a costly attack to organisations of all sizes. Recently Garmin fell victim to a ransomware attack, with reported ransoms of up to US$10 million in exchange to reinstate company files. According to a The State of Ransomware 2020 by Sophos, the global average cost to remediate a ransomware attack …