GUEST BLOG: The Growing DDoS Landscape
By Anthony Webb, EMEA Vice President at A10 Networks A new wave of DDoS attacks on South Africa’s internet service provider has highlighted that these attacks continue to grow in frequency, intensity and sophistication. A10 Networks’ recent report on the Q2 2019: The State of DDoS Weapons has shed more light on the loud, distributed nature of DDoS […]
VIDEO – Top tips to spot phishing attacks
By Falanx Phishing, viruses and ransomware are some of the most common attacks aimed at organisations of all sizes, with phishing emails proving the most successful. With this October being Cyber Security Awareness month, empower your staff to recognise and defend against these attacks. Here are some of the signs to look out for > https://falanx.com/cyber/top-tips-to-spot-phishing-attacks/
How to manage, detect and respond to a data breach
Can you be 100% confident that your business has not been compromised? How would you know if the attacker has not used malware or a virus that would be picked up by the perimeter defences? Even when a compromise is identified, many companies aren’t sure what the next steps should be. It is the speed […]
Is email security training a waste of your time?
If users are the ones being tricked, train users and they won’t get tricked. Easy! Except it doesn’t quite work like that. Can user training ever hope to keep pace with the constantly evolving threat landscape? And who decided user training was the right solution in the first place? Click here to read the latest […]
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT: Falanx penetration testing
To minimise risks from hackers you need to think and act like a hacker. Penetration testing does just that, pseudo hackers attack your systems to help expose and fix vulnerabilities. Whether it’s web applications, internal networks, mobile devices or wireless networks, penetration testing is critical to ensure high levels of cyber security. But why, when […]
Save £35k by deleting emails from your CEO
You work in finance. You get an email from your CEO addressing you by your first name, apologising for the late Friday email, but requesting you make an urgent payment to a regular supplier, with account details helpfully provided in the email. You’d pay it, right? CEO fraud is an increasingly common type of phishing […]
FREE GUIDE: How to reduce the security vulnerabilities in Office 365
You’re likely to follow the path of least resistance, attacking wherever you have the biggest chance of success on the most widely used programs. You will put out Phishing emails, Malware attacks, simple extortion mailers and Business Email compromise (BEC) attacks to gain entry to the target system. Many enterprise organisations’ SaaS technology of choice […]
The Rising Email Threat: Are instant messaging tools the answer?
By Barracuda Networks At Barracuda we believe two heads are better than one. Following that logic, we can’t argue the value of the opportunity to hear from our peers on industry trends. We recently discovered through such means that, for the channel, email security is its biggest focus in 2019, as partners are increasingly helping their customers fight […]
More than half of companies have over 1,000 exposed sensitive files
By Matt Lock (pictured), Director of Sales Engineers UK, Varonis All an attacker needs to steal your valuable data is access. Unfortunately, many companies unknowingly give attackers access to their critical data. Personal identifying information on employees and customers, intellectual property, and more can easily make their way from secured systems to unprotected files and […]
Could your most trusted employee be your biggest threat?
95% of cyber security breaches are due to human error, which in reality means it could be any user, at any time. The best bit? They probably won’t even know they’re doing something wrong, but they have inadvertently just become an unintentional insider threat. As Andy Pearch, Head of IA Services, CORVID, explains, organisations need to stop playing […]
