Patient Privacy in Healthcare: A Security Practitioner’s Approach
Data privacy, after years in the desert of “meh,” is becoming headline news. Data breaches, such as the recent one affecting up to 143 million Equifax customers,...
Susan Morrow
Susan Morrow is a cybersecurity and digital identity expert with over 20 years of experience. Before moving into the tech sector, she was an analytical chemist working in environmental and pharmaceutical analysis. Currently, Susan is Head of R&D at UK-based Avoco Secure.
Susan’s expertise includes usability, accessibility and data privacy within a consumer digital transaction context. She was named a 2020 Most Influential Women in UK Tech by Computer Weekly and shortlisted by WeAreTechWomen as a Top 100 Women in Tech. Susan is on the advisory board of Surfshark and Think Digital Partners, and regularly writes on identity and security for CSO Online and Infosec Resources. Her mantra is to ensure human beings control technology, not the other way around.
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Using Verified Identity to Prevent Personal Data Breaches
Yet again, I open my laptop, check out the news, and see that there has been another mega-hack. This time the target was Equifax, and the victims, 143 million...
Identity Comes of Age
I remember going to the Internet Identity Workshop at the Computer History Museum back in 2009. It was an “unconference,” which meant that anyone could...
Privacy in the Era of IoT
Once upon a time, computer privacy was something along the lines of making sure no one was peeking over your shoulder while you wrote a letter on your desktop....
WannaCry, The Aftermath: How WannaCry Could Have Been WannaSmile
I have been working in the field of cyber security and related areas for over 20 years. In that time there have been many cyber incidents. Those that instantly...
Does History Need to Repeat Itself? Lessons Learned From WannaCry
Often, at the end of a project, especially a long and complicated one, there will be a ‘lessons learned’ session held. These sessions usually bring together...
Dropbox Phishing Attacks- Templates and Examples
Dropbox, the handy Cloud based storage for files, has been one of those amazing tech success stories. As of May 2016, Dropbox had over 500 million registered...
How Healthy is Security Across Healthcare?
For the first time, 2016 saw the American Medical Association (AMA) placing health data security within their top nine issues affecting physicians (1). This...
Phishing by Numbers – Phishing Infographic
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Phishing by Numbers
The manipulation of human behaviour for criminal intent is nothing new. Age old...
Insider Threats at Hospitals
Insider threat is an umbrella term for a number of different malicious acts carried out against an organization by someone inside that organization. It covers...