Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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 …
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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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 …
What is the Insider Threat? The insider threat is one of the most difficult cyber security issues to deal with as it involves someone you trust betraying that trust behind your back. They betray that trust and exploit the access they have to privileged information or processes. Unfortunately the insider …
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It is a very old attack, infect a USB stick and leave it somewhere. Who ever finds it may (will) plug it into a computer to see what is on it. It is human nature. If leaving the infected drive in Starbucks seems to random – then post them out …
