Ransomware Defence
Cisco’s recent mid year Cybersecurity report concludes that it is necessary to raise the security warning flag even higher. Cisco security experts are becoming increasingly concerned about the accelerating pace of change and sophistication in the global cyber threat landscape. While cyber defenders are generally improving their ability to detect threats, prevent attacks and recover […]
The basic objective of a cloud security strategy is to provide a method to monitor and protect the flow of information to and from cloud hosted services. There has been and will continue to be a shift towards public and private cloud services as the age of digitisation is increasingly being embraced by organisations. According […]
When was the last time you had a penetration test of your network or a vulnerability assessment? Penetration testing has traditionally been an annual event for most organisations. Of late we have seen vulnerability assessments delivered as a service with the ability to run tests on demand. Invariably vulnerability assessments are still run once a year oftentimes due to […]
Today’s reliance on IT technology is unparalleled and will only increase. While some businesses are pondering the benefits of IoT deployment or bespoke business applications, others are ploughing ahead and pioneering their initiatives. Some of these initiatives are stuttering and some are big winners that have transformed their business. Digitisation and it’s attendant benefits is the new game in town […]
We all know the cyber security threats landscape is rapidly evolving and it is a real struggle to keep apace with the threats much less get ahead of them, which ideally is where we should be. Organisations especially those small to medium sized ones have limited resources in terms of people, money and time to […]
What will you pay? With a 750% increase in ransomware attacks in 2016, a first layer of defense is needed. View the infographic for new proactive strategies with Cisco Umbrella and keep your business protected. Click here to view the infographic
In our series exploring the changing IT security landscape, we look at the drivers behind cloud adoption and some of the challenges it presents. Cloud adoption has gathered pace to become the dominant form of user access with Software as a Service (SaaS) applications becoming the norm. This growing trend means that direct branch […]
Ransomware is currently the number one form of cyber attack due to its profitability and simplicity in execution. It is now evolving as a business model where any ‘Joe Bloggs’ can buy ransomware code for a monthly fee – ransomware as a service. Ransomware thrives partly because of bitcoin and the associated anonymity of attackers […]
So it’s all happening in the cloud. Wholesale adoption of cloud services is now a business imperative as the opportunities and benefits of SaaS become ever clearer. Here are some numbers though that tell us not only what’s happening but also some concerns that we need to have at the forefront of our minds. 82% […]
The cyber security threat landscape is constantly changing with the ever growing number and scale of attacks. The consequent measures necessary to combat the threats need to be robust, comprehensive and agile. Simply put, it is about developing an effective approach and constantly testing and refining it. The sections below cover the second 5 sections […]