Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
One thing I learnt very quickly whilst studying and after graduation was that my degree in cyber security was only the tool to make me think about cyber security properly and unless I kept my personal study up to date the degree would soon become useless. That is why I …
When Microsoft Patch Tuesday comes around other vendors take the opportunity and issue their patches as well. The US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is one of my go to places to check for vendor patches and security updates – here is what they have for the start …
Continue reading “More patches and updates – That’s what Patch Tuesday does…”
It is the second Tuesday of the month that means this morning, our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. They will keep an eye on the reports all day to check there are …
Continue reading “Microsoft Patch Tuesday – November Edition”
Denial of Service attacks (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are not something many of our clients have to worry about directly. However our clients are often impacted when services they rely on come under attack. OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages (bleepingcomputer.com) This attack probably …
Microsoft is going to automatically deploy a policy for many of it’s customers that will make it mandatory for administrator users to use MFA. Microsoft will roll out MFA-enforcing policies for admin portal access (bleepingcomputer.com) Of course the admins could turn this policy off – but why would they? Watch …
Microsoft has announced the end of Visual Basic scripting in Windows – this is a good thing for our cyber security as this tool is one of the most exploited by the threat actors. What started off as a good idea to provide individuals and organisations with a flexible platform …
Continue reading “Microsoft closes another door on the hackers”
It is the second Tuesday of the month that means this morning, our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. They will keep an eye on the reports all day to check there are …
Continue reading “Microsoft Patch Tuesday – October Edition”
