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Phishing and ransomware remain the most pressing security threats for UK business, according to a government-backed survey out Wednesday. The survey, commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, found that the most common types of breaches are related to staff receiving fraudulent emails (in 72 per cent of …

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  1. Adrian 4

    So what you're saying is that the most pressing concern is that users are idiots and fall for scams ?

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  2. nuked

    What would we do without UK.gov

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    1. Paul Crawford Silver badge
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      To be fair, they do have some useful (and moderately readable) guidance:

      https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/password-guidance-simplifying-your-approach

      https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/macro-security-microsoft-office

      https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/eud-security-guidance-ubuntu-1604-lts

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  3. EnviableOne

    problem exists in layer 8

    As Always, the soft underbelly is the user.But education helps,

    if you can get a user education program that is engaging and intresting, you can drop infection rates considerably.

    if you can get programmers instead of coders, you reduce the bugs even more.

    if you patch frequently and thorougly, you will be protected against all but the most determined hackers or most stupid layer 8 devices.

    If your HR team employ brain detection technology and you deploy a decent log monitoring and correlation solution that should take care of the rest..

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    1. Sir Sham Cad
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      Re: problem exists in layer 8

      To be fair, our comms campaigns regarding fraudulent/ransomware emails seems to have worked better than I thought. We're getting a lot more people reporting dodgy emails rather than clicking on them "just in case they're real"

      Also this guy:

      Brian Lord OBE – former GCHQ Deputy Director for Intelligence and Cyber Operations

      needs to be given a Peerage.

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  4. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    so they could have been stopped without ever getting started.

    Kind of a sad comment on the SoA in 2017.

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