How Good is your Incident Response Plan in the Event of a Cyberattack?
Preventing a data breach or hack is first prize for every cybersecurity company. But if and when an incident occurs, the way that the response is handled is so important to ensure a full and complete recovery for a business. That’s when the quality of your incident...
PEN TESTING, OR ETHICAL HACKING – WHAT IS IT?
PEN TESTING, OR ETHICAL HACKING, IS A VITAL PART OF MAINTAINING TOP NOTCH CYBERSECURITY. Every company that uses digital tools is vulnerable to hackers. No matter how big or small you are, there are actors out there looking to gain access to your system and...
NEW STRATEGIES AND COLLECTIVES EMERGE TO COMBAT SOURCE OF RANSOMWARE
Ransomware is the biggest online threat that British businesses face, according to Lindy Cameron, the head of the UK’s cybersecurity wing of the GCHQ. That statement is a long overdue acknowledgement of what many UK businesses already know - that they are increasingly...
WHY WE ARE SO VULNERABLE TO PHISHING, AND WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?
If you look back over the last thirty years and think about the one single technology that has changed our lives more than any other...it’s likely you’ll land on email. Perhaps even more than the mobile phone, the ability to send and receive messages in an instant...
2|SEC FOUNDER TIM HOLMAN TALKS PHISHING, EMPLOYEES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF MFA
Tim Holman is the President of ISSA-UK, as well as the CEO & Founder at cybersecurity firm 2-Sec. He started out doing OS/2 and LAN Server support for IBM in 1994 and spent a lot of time on online forums both learning and helping others. For those efforts, he was...
5 SCAMS HAPPENING NOW
The online landscape in 2021 is awash in criminals trying to steal valuable data and empty your bank accounts. Due to the fact that we are all spending more time online and working remotely, there are many more opportunities for fraudsters to try and take advantage,...
A VIRTUAL CISO MIGHT BE JUST WHAT YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS
As cyberthreats increase in the age of remote work, there is a need for increased awareness in businesses of all sizes. At the same time, new rules and regulations mean that compliance is also vital to any organisation that wishes to succeed. Many companies have taken...
RANSOMWARE THREAT BURSTS ONTO THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE
The evolving threat of ransomware has been growing for some time but it really burst into people’s consciousness in early May. That’s when a small group of hackers, apparently based in Russia, but not acting on behalf of the Kremlin, shut down the biggest fuel...
NSCS Cyber Essentials provides vital assistance to small businesses
Attacks on SME's The vast majority of cyber attacks are not very hi-tech at all. They’re committed by opportunists who are looking for easy targets and who know that most small businesses whose resources are left unguarded on the internet. All it takes is a lost...
RaaS: The evolving threat of ransomware as a service should be seen as a big worry.
When former US President Donald Trump dismissed the sophisticated Russian hack of the US elections by saying that it ‘could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds’ he was playing into the mistaken, but commonly-held belief about cybercriminals that...