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.
There are a variety of routes whereby a bad actor can gain unauthorised access to an organisation’s systems. They range from telephony solutions, modems, ISDN and DSL, to name a few. These systems are used for various business purposes, including; support for remote and home working by staff, dedicated connections with organisation partners and suppliers, access to public networks (e.g. Internet) and third-party networks.
Network scanning can help organisations know what vulnerabilities are present in their network and its connected devices. Scanning your network in this way can help find current vulnerabilities and find potential security flaws. You can ensure that your organisation has the proper security controls and measures in place to prevent and best protect your network against malicious attackers.
Sapphire has designed its UK-based Security Operations Centre (SOC) to help organisations respond quickly to threats and receive the optimum cyber security protection available today. Organisations across the UK benefit from Sapphire’s twenty-five years of experience from network monitoring to vulnerability management and incident response. Sapphire security analysts have a wealth of knowledge.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Frequently, websites have outdated software containing known security vulnerabilities this is a security risk that can be avoided. Carrying out regular software updates and ensuring that you are using the latest version of the software will typically remediate these issues by installing security patches and increasing your website security.
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.
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