Digital innovation offers companies several advantages, ranging from greater profitability and lower costs to increased employee productivity and the ability to provide better customer service. That said, more digital solutions increase the size of an organisation’s attack surface – giving cybercriminals more options for breaching their IT infrastructure and compromising sensitive data and assets. In light of this, it’s not … Read More
Top Data Privacy Tips For Online Safety
In today’s fast-paced and increasingly competitive business landscape, digital innovation isn’t just desirable if an organisation wants to thrive – it’s essential for it to survive. Fortunately, between modern software development practices, such as low-code and no-code, and cloud-based applications and services (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), digital innovation is easier than ever. However, more digital solutions mean more digitised data, and … Read More
What is a sandbox environment?
With a staggering 17 million new instances of malware recorded every month, organisations can’t rely on detecting malicious code by its digital signature. Instead, as malware becomes more numerous, dangerous, and difficult to detect, security teams must employ other effective tools and strategies to identify and contain harmful software and files. Fortunately, a sandbox environment is one such solution. The question … Read More
What is a malware evasion technique?
Malware evasion techniques alter the characteristics of malicious software to avoid detection by cyber security solutions that rely on patterns or predefined signatures. Malware evasion techniques are used by malicious actors to bypass detection systems and traditional antivirus software. Malware evasion techniques are not only used to counter network-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) but can also … Read More
CIS Critical Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defense: What are They?
Established in 2000, the Centre of Internet Security (CIS) is a global, non-profit community of experts that collectively develops tools, solutions, and best practices for increasing cyber security and mitigating cyber risk. As well as being renowned for their Benchmarks, which are used to reduce configuration-based vulnerabilities in digital assets, they have developed a cyber risk mitigation framework called the … Read More
How to Measure Your Company’s Cybersecurity Effectiveness?
With the annual cost of cybercrime predicted to reach $10.5 trillion by 2025 – a 300% increase over ten years, the implementation of cybersecurity programs is at an all-time high. As business owners, executives, and other stakeholders realise that no one is exempt from cyber attacks, increasing numbers of organisations are starting to take cyber threat mitigation seriously. However, companies … Read More
What is a Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM)?
What is a Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM)? While the term “supply chain” traditionally conjures up images of raw materials, production lines, haulage trucks and cargo ships, in the information age, an organisation must also consider its digital supply chain. A supply chain can be defined as the resources, people, and processes that a company uses to deliver its … Read More
Building a Cybersecurity Roadmap: How to Build & Develop a Comprehensive Security Strategy
Building a cyber security roadmap is extremely important in today’s digital age. Not only does it give your IT security team direction, but it also provides a foundation from where to build and develop a comprehensive security strategy. Organisations of all sizes have now realised what kind of damage cyberattacks and data breaches can cause to their operations, revenue, and … Read More
7 Advantages of DSPM for Data Security
Although cloud computing has revolutionised a company’s ability to share data, to account for an increasingly mobile and distributed workforce, cloud environments also complicate its ability to secure sensitive data. The exponentially increasing volume of data – and datasets being frequently duplicated across multiple cloud-based platforms, applications, and services – mean that most cloud security solutions struggle to keep up … Read More