Author: Jacky

During the worst of the covid crisis, organisations implemented many security strategies to deal with the new way of working in the short term. Therefore, they executed them as one-off projects to cover all bases. However, after covid lockdowns, organisations have found a need for long-term strategies for cyber security.   

A cybersecurity incident response team (also known as CSIRT) is a team of cybersecurity experts available to deal with an incident occurring in an organisation. The team can be either internal or external, this depends on the nature of the incident and whether the team is equipped to deal with it effectively.  

Defining a clear strategy when establishing an organisation’s SOC helps to align business goals. Developing the strategy using an assessment is the best way to identify gas and potential vulnerabilities.

After this assessment, the team can create a clear, comprehensive set of processes, helping to guide the SOC team in operating, monitoring, detecting, responding and reporting as suggested above.

As a result of the fluid and ever-evolving threat landscape, this strategy will need reviewing periodically, helping to keep ahead of any new emerging risks and vulnerabilities.

It’s an exciting concept and one that many people don’t grasp. All organisations today can potentially fall victim to a cyber-attack or cyber security outage, which can cause severe damage to its ability to operate and its infrastructure. It’s more than just cyber security awareness; it requires the whole workforce to know what the risk is and the processes that need to be followed to avoid this risk.

There have been many participants in Cybersecurity Awareness Month, such as DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano back in 2009. In 2010 during the STOP. THINK. CONNECT campaign, former U.S. President Barack Obama used this phrase as a national cybersecurity education and awareness message.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month has also had many themes to help articulate the different aspects of cybersecurity, such as education, cybercrime, law enforcement, mobility, critical infrastructure for any organisation from small to large.

While many threat and risk management solutions help organisations deal with low-level security events with automated responses, having an incident response plan, delivered by an experienced team will determine your success in responding to an attack.

Used by organisations to detect and prevent malicious activity in an organisation, Network Detection and Response describes a category of security solutions that are used to investigate and mitigate the risk of attackers. It is a progressive security solution providing a centralised machine-based analysis of network traffic and response solutions.

NDR solutions provide a single solution for visibility across on-prem, remote, and cloud environments.

How can you ensure you have outsourced your penetration testing requirements to the right provider? 

Vulnerability management is the process of finding and patching vulnerabilities in your network security to protect an organisation’s networks against malicious cyberattacks. It is an ongoing program utilising a wide variety of technologies to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in your network to keep your organisation safe from cyber attacks.   

On June 8th, 2021, Microsoft released their scheduled weekly security update; contained within this release was a patch for a Print Spooler service (spoolsv.exe) vulnerability CVE-2021-1675. The vulnerability had initially been deemed a low-risk Escalation…

Over the last year, the technological landscape has changed dramatically across the globe. More businesses than ever are investing in large and robust infrastructures, but the unfortunate truth is severe, and high-level cybersecurity weaknesses are more common today in 2021 than in 2020.

Threat Intelligence published by Microsoft[1] shows an increase in Russia-based nation-state threat actors launching attacks against countries outside Ukraine. The United Kingdom was the second most targeted country, behind the United States. Of all targeted…

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n ever-evolving threat landscape and a growing volume of threats, organisations require a Security Operations Centre (SOC) to address threats in a structured and effective manner. However, building this function in-house is hugely time-consuming and requires many resources that many organisations do not have currently.