Outsource Cybersecurity: Expectations vs Reality12 January 2022
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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Threat Intelligence vs Threat Hunting15 December 2021
A threat hunting service uses gathered and processed intelligence to carry out a thorough, system-wide search for specific threats. In simple terms, threat hunting is the process of proving or disproving hypotheses of identified threats across an organisation’s environment. One example of threat hunting would be a threat hunter team – using indicators of compromise (IOCs) to begin investigating evidence of a threat actor’s activity within an organisation’s network.
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What is Cyber Security Awareness Training?8 November 2021
Security awareness training objective is to ensure that employees understand the role they can play in helping to enhance and enforce the organisations’ security. From understanding data protection requirements to being able to spot the telltale signs of a phishing email, your employees are your first and foremost defence against a security breach.
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What are Threat Actors?25 October 2021
In the world of cybersecurity, the more you know about threat actors, the better placed you are to counteract and manage cyber threats and attacks. But what is a threat actor? We can define a threat actor as a person, group, or entity performing a cyber-attack designed to impact an organisation negatively.
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What Does a Security Operations Centre Do?4 October 2021
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.
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The importance of Incident Response27 September 2021
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.
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What is a Managed Security Service? | Sapphire Cybersecurity12 August 2021
The ability to detect and respond to threats quickly and effectively is crucial for maintaining the health and security of the hardware, networks and software maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of enterprise, data and software assets in your business.
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What is Vulnerability Management? | Sapphire4 August 2021
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.
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