So for the actual first post on the BWTS blog, we’re going to start a series. This will be an overview with deep dives on various topics, with today being the general overview.
So security for most, tends to be ‘I’ve installed a firewall and antivirus, so I’m all set’. In a much more perfect world, this could actually be the case. In ‘this’ world that we live in, it ends up being a lot more complicated. You must have security starting from the inside out, which is what we’ll endeavor to cover. This starts at your endpoints, so your computers, servers, tablets, phones or in other words, the devices you tend to use. This then moves outward, encompassing your switches, routers, firewalls, Internet connection and progresses to the ‘outside’, so all of your external services. These externals are things like your e-mail accounts (since most use a web mail service like Gmail and Yahoo, and do not host their own), social media, online financial accounts, etc.
It is important to note, there is no such thing as perfect security. So everything here will be best effort, because the closest you can get to ‘perfect’ security is a brand new computer, sealed in a concrete block and dropped into the ocean.
So stay tuned for more as get into the inside and work our way outside!
