Some easy steps to HELP protect your health business I am often asked about what practices can do to HELP protect themselves from RansomWare or other hacking attempts. Some really easy to implement ideas include:- #1 Good password policy, strong passwords unknown to others, changed at weird intervals (not monthly) #2 Two Factor Authentication if […]
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Dodgy Emails
I see that yesterday afternoon my users received at least two emails with attachments that contain a Ransomware payload that seem to be from GPTQ They are shown to be ‘from’ real people at GPTQ, but that is not the case. The email says things like ‘Attached is your service report’, or ‘as per the […]
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Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA)
I recently found this article online at itnews.com.au (I haven’t read much of their content – but it looks up-to-date and across various issues affecting IT in Australia). This article is about a talk by ADHA chief information security officer Anthony Kitzelmann to the Technology in Government conference, early in August 2017. I haven’t been able […]
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To Allow access or to NOT Allow Access? That is the question
Constantly the help desk support people at all of those downloading clients want access to your server to fix any issues. Recently I saw a ‘tech support’ person from one of the better known SMD companies want to rename ‘who’ a real result was for, just to test their software. The medico-legal implications of this […]
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