Neil Anderson, Author at Business In Focus Magazine

Neil Anderson

2017 | In Focus | March 2017
State Surveillance
Not Just a Personal Privacy Problem

Sometimes it seems like the world has gone mad. Perfectly intelligent (I use the word advisedly) political representatives have, over the last couple of years, taken leave of their senses when it comes to encryption, state surveillance, and privacy.

2016 | In Focus | July 2016 | SME | Technology
Defending your Business in the Digital Age
SMEs are Juicy Targets for Cyber Criminals

by Neil Anderson

The problems associated with running a small business are many and varied: are your customers going to pay your invoices in time? Do you have enough work to hire that extra person? Is your supply chain robust enough to deal with sudden changes in demand? Up until recently, there wasn’t much chance that cyber security was on the list of typical worries for a small business owner, but that’s changing…

2016 | In Focus | May 2016
Wireless is Still a Security Concern
and the Internet of Things is Making It Worse

by Neil Anderson

Wifi has become the primary connection method for most of our computing devices these days. Whether laptop, tablet, games console or phone, pretty much all of our devices use some kind of wireless connection.

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