This week I have been discussing user and systems monitoring with a client’s senior management team. Their immediate response was that they did not want to spy on their staff as they trusted them – and to be fair they are appear to be a friendly supportive organisation. However my …
Just Ransomware!
Having ended last week’s cyber security news with ransomware stories and then starting this week’s news again with ransomware, our Operations Manager Martin and I ended up talking about the first time he and I dealt with this type of malware on a client’s network and in-house server… Ransomware in …
Microsoft Patch Tuesday
As promised – a reminder of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday… 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 no …
Octagon Technology’s Security Operations Centre is Online
Our Security Operations Centre (SOC) is now operational and our first clients are already benefiting from our continuous 24/7 monitoring, analysis, alert and response service. You could as well… Why you need a Security Operations Centre Here is a great quote from the director of the Security Operations Centre: A …
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Defence-in-Depth – The Next Step
Yesterday I wrote the opening chapter of this defence-in-depth article – I looked at how anti-virus protection can be side-stepped by threat actors and that staff cyber awareness training is needed to provide another layer to your defences. That was a human addition to your defence-in-depth and today we are …
