How to prevent ransomware? --
Ransomware, a virus used to infect and encrypt files in exchange for a ransom, has become one of the cybercrimes that most affect businesses. José Carlos Jiménez, Cyber Underwriter at AIG, has published a ten-step guide on the main measures to avoid ransomware (data kidnapping) for a special report [...]
Do we know all the variables in financial digitisation?
The concept of financial digitisation speaks of the complexity of the subject, on the one hand, digitisation, a technical concept, on the other hand, financial, a very important business sector in Spain. In Physics there are many analogue and digital processes, in mechanics, electronics...they indicate continuous (analogue) or discontinuous (digital) processes, which are produced or cease to be produced in certain values, [...]
New year, new password?
The beginning of the year is a good time to change the passwords on devices and applications for which we want to maintain a high level of security, or in any case to avoid using the same passwords, as always, as a precaution. There are a number of methods that can be used to attack computers regardless of whether or not the [...]
How to create an effective cyber security plan
In order to have an effective cybersecurity plan, it is first necessary to know what assets need to be protected, whether tangible or intangible (buildings, computers, software, data, etc.), and then to investigate possible vulnerabilities in order to determine the risks. What is the purpose of the plan? To prevent, avoid or eliminate these risks. In [...]
Proa's Director of Digital Communication, moderator of a round table on cybersecurity and robots.
Bárbara Yuste, Director of Digital Communication at Proa Comunicación, participated last Friday, 15th November, in a round table discussion on "New professional profiles" organised by the España Digital Foundation as part of the Digital Employment Forum programme, held at La Nave in Madrid. During the debate, which included the participation of Fernando Davara, president of [...]
Security and cybersecurity
No one nowadays can imagine that our homes do not have doors with locks of all kinds, armoured and protected in many cases by an alarm that may be connected to an alarm centre; and if necessary, presence detectors and a thousand other devices that I could go on listing. Cybersecurity deals with another [...]
2019, the year of legal innovation
It is clear to no one that 2018 has been, from a legal point of view, a real revolution in matters such as privacy. After a year of talking about the new European Data Protection Regulation, on 25 May it became fully applicable, and with it, an important change in how companies and administrations [...]