A company’s first few years can often give an indication of where it’s going, allowing us to make assumptions about its future. Bulletproof is still in its early phases, being just a couple of years old, but having been privy to the first official quarterly update, it’s clear that the business has a great deal of potential.
Recently, when discussing Chrome’s current push to get everyone onto HTTPS, we touched upon the TLS handshake, mentioning that the latest version of TLS was version 1.2. Since then, TLS version 1.3 has been made available for use, successfully dating our literature that was previously held with such high esteem. Of course, TLS v1.3 still has to be adopted and implemented by the Internet in general, so for the most part 1.2 will still be the most prominently used version for a while yet.
A Data Protection Officer (DPO) is a lot like a little angel on your shoulders, except instead of a little harp, they have a complete understanding of GDPR and other data protection laws. Their job is to make sure you don’t listen to the devil on your other shoulder encouraging you to do all sorts of non-compliant things, like process data unlawfully or without permission.
Last month, Google Chrome started marking all non-HTTPS sites as not secure. The main reason for this is because all non-HTTPS sites are insecure, so there is some logic to it. It was part of a plan announced way back in 2016 that sought to improve security across the Net. The first stage of this was to mark all HTTP sites that collect passwords or credit card details (and the like) as being insecure.
Despite living in a world where the internet is becoming ever-more fundamental to everyday life, there is currently a world-wide shortage of cyber security professionals who are able to keep it all secure. Within four years this shortage is expected to reach 1.8 million. According to a recent study, only 35% of the enterprises involved felt they were adequately staffed to deal with cyber-attacks. 35% is not a good percentage.
