It takes only 15 minutes for the threat actors to start scanning for vulnerabilities when they are discovered.

How quickly do you respond to gaps in your cybersecurity?

It is obvious but even the biggest organisations and governments in the world will be responding slower that the threat actors – so there will always be gaps in the cyber security.

Hackers scan for vulnerabilities within 15 minutes of disclosure (bleepingcomputer.com)

Here is a real world example of a vulnerability in an update, being spotted quickly by the threat actors, and exploited:

‘Frenzied mob’ steals more than $156 million from crypto platform Nomad – The Record by Recorded Future

Crypto platform Nomad was robbed of more than $156 million in cryptocurrency on Monday evening after a vulnerability in a recent update was discovered and replicated by dozens of hackers.

Jonathan Greig, The Record

You may not have that amount of money at risk but a fast cyber-attack could still compromise your assets, stakeholders and reputation.

Two quick fixes you can apply now!

• Train your people to recognise the types of threats targeted at them, primarily phishing emails and social engineering attacks
• Have a cyber attack resilient back-up of everything to fall back on for business continuity and incident response.

Further Reading

Cyber Security Awareness Training – Why?

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