2|SEC Consulting – Happy 8th Birthday!
This month we celebrate 8 years of 2|SEC Consulting. To reminisce, I have been looking at some penetration test reports we took on when we started out. Before you wangle the GDPR data retention carrot at me, these reports are of course redacted with information kept...
Blackouts: Don’t leave your company in the dark
On Friday 9thAugust 2019, it went dark across many parts of the UK. Train networks stopped and communters were facing an inability to get home due to hours of cancellations, described by Bloomberg as a ‘once-in-a-decade blackout’. The cause? A seemingly unlikely event...
Cyber Security within the Legal Sector
In July 2018, The Law Society and the National Cyber Security Centre released a joint report outlining the threats to the legal sector. The report confirmed what most of us working in the sector knew – that the industry has a low level of cyber maturity meaning that...
Introduction to Penetration Testing
Penetration Testing, Pen Testing, Red Teaming, Security Assessment, IT Health Check and Ethical Hacking are common phrases that describe what we do, that ultimately all mean the same thing – whether or not a determined adversary can gain unauthorised access to...