Welcome aboard our first Wednesday Safety Briefing. Our founder Mick loves aeroplanes, so each Wednesday our team runs through a few pre flight checks to make before take off. This week we are looking at passwords.
Mick recently spent a day with his family at Brooklands Museum in Surrey, where you can step on board Delta Golf, the first British production Concorde. She is known as Delta Golf because her registration ends in D and G, which pilots read out as Delta and Golf. She made 663 flights, 374 of them supersonic, and did most of the certification work needed before Concorde could enter airline service. Some of the flight test equipment that was fitted to her is on display at the museum.
Our checks are a little simpler than Concorde’s. She flew with a flight engineer on the flight deck whose whole job was to watch over her systems, from the fuel to the hydraulics. Happily, none of this week’s checks needs a flight engineer! Before take off, please check that:
- Everyone uses their own login for care planning, eMAR and resident records, and nobody shares those passwords.
- Passwords are long and made from three random words, such as coffeetrainfish, as the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recommends.
- Two step sign in is switched on for email and Microsoft 365.
- No passwords are written on sticky notes on screens or walls.
In the unlikely event that someone thinks their password has been seen, please change it straight away and contact your IT support team. If you would like HoneyCombe4 to be that team, or to check the passwords and sign in settings across your homes, email us at hello@honeycombe4.com.
Thank you for flying with HoneyCombe4.
This briefing first appeared as a post on our LinkedIn page.