Security Updates

Electronic payments have changed dramatically over the past few decades, with payment card transactions becoming integral to our daily lives. However, with the convenience of payment cards comes the increased risk of cyber threats and…

In today’s world, technology has become a vital part of every organisation, regardless of its size or industry. With this technology comes the risk of vulnerabilities that cybercriminals can exploit to steal sensitive information, disrupt…

For protecting endpoints such as workstations and servers, antivirus protection has been the traditional go-to. However, with Endpoint Protection and Response (EDR), next-generation protection is available to organisations.

What is CRING ransomware? In April 2021, Sapphire’s threat intelligence resources identified a sophisticated ransomware campaign utilising the Cring malware and leveraging vulnerability (CVE-2018-13379), identified in 2019, affecting Fortinet VPN Servers.  The cring ransomware attack…

On January 24th 2022, the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) and IASME implemented an updated set of requirements for Cyber Essentials.  This update is the most significant overhaul of the scheme’s technical controls since it launched in…

In November 2021, we published a blog post about the virtues of ISO27001 certification, ‘ISO27001 Certification: Now is the Time to Consider the Benefits’. Now with the publication of the ISO27002 controls, the changes are a great step forward for many organisations, and the reasons are outlined below…

The CL0P ransomware group claimed responsibility for the attack on UK-based utility provider South Staffordshire Water. However, they have said there is no impact on the water supply or drinking water safety. 

On its extortion website, CL0P uploaded a vast collection of stolen papers. These included passport scans, spreadsheets with administrator passwords, drivers’ licences, and, concerningly, screenshots of administration interfaces of wastewater treatment systems.  

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…

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

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.

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.   

ISO 27001 is a standard set out by the International Standards Organisation that helps your organisation to manage the security of your information assets (electronic/paper, reputational, applications, infrastructure, third parties, etc.). Additionally, the certification helps organisations formulate an Information Security Management System (ISMS) to mitigate the growing number of information and cyber attacks.

OWASP selected eight of the ten categories from contributed data and two categories from the Top 10 community survey at a high level. AppSec (Application security) researchers attempt to find new vulnerabilities and new ways to test for them. Because of the nature of the testing, it takes time to integrate these tests into tools and processes.

Sapphire is delighted to announce a new partnership with VMware Carbon Black. The partnership enriches Sapphires portfolio enable its clients to benefit from Carbon Blacks next-generation antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution. With…