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Back to Cybersecurity Basics – Part 9: Malware Protection
Malware, or malicious software to give it it’s full name is any software that’s sole intention is to cause harm to a computer/network or to use its influence to extract sensitive data or money in the form of cryptocurrency. To protect yourself from Malware, you must first understand what Malw ...Read More →
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Back to Cybersecurity Basics – Part 8: Secure Configuration
For those of you that have gone through the Cyber Essentials scheme, like us, you will know that Secure Configuration is one of the five key controls spoken about by the UK Government in the guidelines. Configuring systems securely at the point of being developed will ensure that vulnerabilities ...Read More →
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Back to Cybersecurity Basics – Part 7: Security Monitoring
Cyber attacks come in all shapes and sizes. From internal threat actors to state-sponsored attacks on government, security is now seen as one of the biggest threats to business. In fact, in the recently released World Economic Global Risks Report, cyber attacks were in the top 5 risks to global stab ...Read More →
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Back to Cybersecurity Basics – Part 6: Removable Media Controls
One of the most difficult things to manage from an IT Security perspective is the actions of your users. Even the most trustworthy employees can fall prey to a phishing scam or leave their laptop on a train and then we have those employees who aren’t so trustworthy who may try to maliciously sabot ...Read More →
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Back to Cybersecurity Basics – Part 5: Managing User Privileges
IT and Cyber Security means many different things to many different people. One size definitely doesn’t fit all, and different companies have their own individual challenges to resolve. The larger a company gets the more complex it’s security requirements become. Despite some anomalies, one c ...Read More →
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Back to Cybersecurity Basics – Part 4: Information Risk Management
With every decision we make, be that at work or at home, we are constantly, be that consciously or subconsciously, undertaking a risk analysis. I have a 3-year-old son who has a slight cold. Yesterday he wanted to go to the park and I had to subconsciously undertake a risk assessment based on whe ...Read More →
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Back to Cybersecurity Basics – Part 3: Incident Response
‘It’s no longer a case of if but when’. Of course, those of us who have been working in the IT Security industry for longer than we care to remember know that we’re talking about becoming the victim of a cyber-attack. For many of the larger organisations around the world this is nothin ...Read More →
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Back to Cybersecurity Basics – Part 2: User Awareness Training
According to datainsider.com, 91% of cyber attacks start with some sort of Phishing attempt. By now most of us are aware of the two main types of attack. A standard phishing attack will cast the net far and wide and be indiscriminate regarding who is targeted, whereas a spear phishing attack will ...Read More →
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Back to Cybersecurity Basics – Part 1: Mobile and Home Working
‘Complexity is the enemy of IT Security’, it’s a phrase we hear time and again in this industry and rightly so. With each new way a hacker tries to target an organisation, there seems to be a new product that springs up to protect the network. Now whilst these are very much required, we somet ...Read More →
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