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044 | Cyber Security Can We Really Be Safe
Today, we're going to talk about cyber security and can we ever be safe? The short answer is no. So that's all we need to know. Let's cruise into the next episode. That's done. Simple. But we can try damn hard. We can try our best to try and be safe. We can be diligent and continue the game of cat and mouse to make sure that we're on top of it. If we lived in a safe world where everyone worked together and no one was trying to do the naughties and break into things and there was a bit more equality, we probably wouldn't have as big of a problem as we have now, but because we've got these social giants and these big companies that are taking everything that we're giving away for free and then charging for it, with then people starving to death on the streets. We have this disparity where we need to have people try and break into things and steal stuff.
Read more about Cyber Security: https://dorksdelivered.com.au/blog/289-cyber-security-can-we-really-be-safe
The good news is overall crime in general is on the down. But that's in general. Most homes and cars don't get stolen or broken into anywhere near as much as what they did. Because when you break into a house, what do you get? A tablet that has an IMEI number that people have to then report to the police and it stops working. It's useless. You get jewellery, maybe, that'd be probably the most valuable thing that most homes would have in them would be jewellery. Besides that, there's no real value. But online, huge value. You can hold people, companies to ransom. Everyone is a target and so many people would just walk in there with their dick out. They expect to just be flopping it around and not have a problem with what they're doing. What it comes down to is it's a huge problem. They shouldn't be doing that and they need to be more diligent. You need to be more diligent online.
So cyber security, can we ever be safe? The answer is no. But you can make sure that you've got your stuff backed up and it's in an offsite location. If you've got a managed IT service provider, they can make sure that they're looking after that for you and they're backing it up onsite and remotely in your own private cloud, because cyber security will be a problem for everything, not just you and not just your applications, they don't want to target people like you. They want to target companies like Office 360, Microsoft and Office 365 and Dropbox and Sony and these big companies that have lots and lots of data. That's what they want. That's why Google+ is shutting down now, because they had huge data breach 12 months ago and they weren't very nice with the way they brought it up to everyone, but they had huge data breach 12 months ago that resulted in lots of records disappearing into other people's hands that shouldn't have had them and Facebook had the same and they were run over the coals for it, which is good.
But data breaches and cyber security is going to be an ongoing problem. If there's someone that can make it, there's always someone out there that can make it better. You're great at what you do, but there's going to be someone else at that that's better at what you do than what you're doing and how you're doing it. It's just how the world works. If someone else is out there and they want what you've got more than what you want to keep it, they're going to take it from you. It all comes down to the prize at the end. If you want to break into a bank, you can do that unnoticed. If you want to break into someone's home, you can do that unnoticed. If you want to break into someone's computer, into their business, into their Dropbox accounts or into Dropbox, you can do that as well, it's just how much money and time is it going to take to do that and is it going to be worthwhile with what you're going to be getting with the results at the end.
Most of the time, if you're setting up your security so that you've got cameras at home, you've got an alarm system at home, your businesses got two-factor authentication, you're connecting to all your files over a VPN, using secure passwords, you've got grouped staff members that only had access to certain data and you're doing every single thing that you can, all of that costs time and money and to undo all of that costs time and money. So if you're making it difficult for someone else, they're not going to bother. They're going to go after the easier fish. But if you're sitting there with your dick out and you've got crappy passwords, crappy wifi, and you're practically leaving the front door open, you're asking them to come in and steal everything. Cybersecurity is now a bigger industry than it's ever been before.
The attack on the defense is ridiculous with the way that this is working and what's worse is most of the technologies and the ways that things are made are built upon protocols that are what they call open protocols, that is most of the time have been designed by someone sitting in their garage, tinkering away at it, and then all of a sudden the SSL protocol that you thought was encrypting your website and making sure all of your connections were secure is broken into or the packets are sniffed on your wifi and the WPA2 connection isn't great and you're up shit creek, because big companies take from small companies. There's makers and there's takers. The makers very rarely get paid anywhere near as much as what they should for what they made.
It's the takers that make the money and the takers then go back to the makers when something breaks and says, "Well, make it better. "I didn't have enough money to do that. I didn't have enough money to put a team together to test it properly. You just took my idea when it was half baked and put it together and put it out to the public to make money off of it. It's terrible." Stay diligent. Make sure you put up your boundaries and your walls so that no one else is able to come into your business and come into your home. Locks only keep out the honest criminals and that is a statement and a quote that holds true for anything online. If you are not putting down some awesome, awesome locks and making sure that you're really, really locking down your whole infrastructure, you're going to be having the nasties come in.
Leaving your windows open and your car door open and your home door open, your home windows open and everything open, and then seeing if anything goes missing, even the smallest of criminals, if it's easy enough, will just be like, "Oh, let's go in and see what's happening, what's going on." So don't fall victim. Be diligent. Get into it. If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure to jump to iTunes, leave us a review and would love to hear your feedback on how we can make the channel even better and grow our audience even bigger. This is a great day for us actually. We've got so many more subscribers. By the time this goes live, it's going to be through the roof, but we've surpassed a thousand people now in only two months. So I'm impressed, very impressed. So I'll keep doing what I'm doing and you keep doing the listenings that you're doing and let me know how we can improve it. Stay good.
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Today, we're going to talk about cyber security and can we ever be safe? The short answer is no. So that's all we need to know. Let's cruise into the next episode. That's done. Simple. But we can try damn hard. We can try our best to try and be safe. We can be diligent and continue the game of cat and mouse to make sure that we're on top of it. If we lived in a safe world where everyone worked together and no one was trying to do the naughties and break into things and there was a bit more equality, we probably wouldn't have as big of a problem as we have now, but because we've got these social giants and these big companies that are taking everything that we're giving away for free and then charging for it, with then people starving to death on the streets. We have this disparity where we need to have people try and break into things and steal stuff.
Read more about Cyber Security: https://dorksdelivered.com.au/blog/289-cyber-security-can-we-really-be-safe
The good news is overall crime in general is on the down. But that's in general. Most homes and cars don't get stolen or broken into anywhere near as much as what they did. Because when you break into a house, what do you get? A tablet that has an IMEI number that people have to then report to the police and it stops working. It's useless. You get jewellery, maybe, that'd be probably the most valuable thing that most homes would have in them would be jewellery. Besides that, there's no real value. But online, huge value. You can hold people, companies to ransom. Everyone is a target and so many people would just walk in there with their dick out. They expect to just be flopping it around and not have a problem with what they're doing. What it comes down to is it's a huge problem. They shouldn't be doing that and they need to be more diligent. You need to be more diligent online.
So cyber security, can we ever be safe? The answer is no. But you can make sure that you've got your stuff backed up and it's in an offsite location. If you've got a managed IT service provider, they can make sure that they're looking after that for you and they're backing it up onsite and remotely in your own private cloud, because cyber security will be a problem for everything, not just you and not just your applications, they don't want to target people like you. They want to target companies like Office 360, Microsoft and Office 365 and Dropbox and Sony and these big companies that have lots and lots of data. That's what they want. That's why Google+ is shutting down now, because they had huge data breach 12 months ago and they weren't very nice with the way they brought it up to everyone, but they had huge data breach 12 months ago that resulted in lots of records disappearing into other people's hands that shouldn't have had them and Facebook had the same and they were run over the coals for it, which is good.
But data breaches and cyber security is going to be an ongoing problem. If there's someone that can make it, there's always someone out there that can make it better. You're great at what you do, but there's going to be someone else at that that's better at what you do than what you're doing and how you're doing it. It's just how the world works. If someone else is out there and they want what you've got more than what you want to keep it, they're going to take it from you. It all comes down to the prize at the end. If you want to break into a bank, you can do that unnoticed. If you want to break into someone's home, you can do that unnoticed. If you want to break into someone's computer, into their business, into their Dropbox accounts or into Dropbox, you can do that as well, it's just how much money and time is it going to take to do that and is it going to be worthwhile with what you're going to be getting with the results at the end.
Most of the time, if you're setting up your security so that you've got cameras at home, you've got an alarm system at home, your businesses got two-factor authentication, you're connecting to all your files over a VPN, using secure passwords, you've got grouped staff members that only had access to certain data and you're doing every single thing that you can, all of that costs time and money and to undo all of that costs time and money. So if you're making it difficult for someone else, they're not going to bother. They're going to go after the easier fish. But if you're sitting there with your dick out and you've got crappy passwords, crappy wifi, and you're practically leaving the front door open, you're asking them to come in and steal everything. Cybersecurity is now a bigger industry than it's ever been before.
The attack on the defense is ridiculous with the way that this is working and what's worse is most of the technologies and the ways that things are made are built upon protocols that are what they call open protocols, that is most of the time have been designed by someone sitting in their garage, tinkering away at it, and then all of a sudden the SSL protocol that you thought was encrypting your website and making sure all of your connections were secure is broken into or the packets are sniffed on your wifi and the WPA2 connection isn't great and you're up shit creek, because big companies take from small companies. There's makers and there's takers. The makers very rarely get paid anywhere near as much as what they should for what they made.
It's the takers that make the money and the takers then go back to the makers when something breaks and says, "Well, make it better. "I didn't have enough money to do that. I didn't have enough money to put a team together to test it properly. You just took my idea when it was half baked and put it together and put it out to the public to make money off of it. It's terrible." Stay diligent. Make sure you put up your boundaries and your walls so that no one else is able to come into your business and come into your home. Locks only keep out the honest criminals and that is a statement and a quote that holds true for anything online. If you are not putting down some awesome, awesome locks and making sure that you're really, really locking down your whole infrastructure, you're going to be having the nasties come in.
Leaving your windows open and your car door open and your home door open, your home windows open and everything open, and then seeing if anything goes missing, even the smallest of criminals, if it's easy enough, will just be like, "Oh, let's go in and see what's happening, what's going on." So don't fall victim. Be diligent. Get into it. If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure to jump to iTunes, leave us a review and would love to hear your feedback on how we can make the channel even better and grow our audience even bigger. This is a great day for us actually. We've got so many more subscribers. By the time this goes live, it's going to be through the roof, but we've surpassed a thousand people now in only two months. So I'm impressed, very impressed. So I'll keep doing what I'm doing and you keep doing the listenings that you're doing and let me know how we can improve it. Stay good.