Cybersecurity Expert

Guest Article by  Andy Pearch, Head of IA Services at  CORVID Cyber attacks are inevitable, but it’s how an organisation deals with them that can make or break their business. Have they got all the answers, and do they fully understand the implications? Can they be sure the attack won’t happen again? Swift and comprehensive incident response is a critical step to ensuring the future security of a business and protecting its reputation. It’s not enough to be aware that an attack is taking (or has taken) place. There are four key questions organisations need to be able to answer following a cyber security breach – if a single answer is missing, the security team won’t have the full picture, leaving the business vulnerable to impending attacks. Not having this level of insight can also damage an organisation’s relationships with suppliers and affect customer confidence, as it means the business itself is not in control of the situation. Andy Pearch, Head of IA Services at COR...

Guest article by Dan Baker  of  SecureTeam Majority of security systems are installed to try and forestall any external threats to a business’ network, but what about the security threats that are inside your organisation and your network? Data breaches have the potential to expose a large amount of sensitive, private or confidential information that might be on your network. Insider threats are a significant threat to your business and are increasingly being seen as an issue that needs dealing with. SecureTeam are experts in cybersecurity and provide a variety of cybersecurity consultation solutions to a range of businesses. They have used their extensive knowledge of internal network security to write this handy guide to help businesses protect themselves from insider data breaches. Who is considered an Insider Threat? Insider threats can come from a variety of different sources and can pose a risk to your business that you might not have considered. Malicious Insi...

Keep Patching! June 2019 was another very busy month for security update releases. Microsoft released updates to patch 22 critical rated vulnerabilities, Intel released 11 fixes, and there were also several critical security updates for Apple Airport , Adobe Flash Player , Cisco devices , Cisco Data Centre Network Manager ,  Dell SupportAssist ,  Google Chrome , Firefox and Apache .  One further standout vulnerability was the "SACK Panic" TCP Linux and FreeBSD kernel vulnerability , uncovered by Netflix researchers, however,  Microsoft released a security advisory in regards to TCP SACK Panic by the end of the month. The  National Security Agency (NSA) backed up UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Microsoft’s continuing strong recommendations   for everyone to apply the latest security updates to all versions of Microsoft Windows, including the unsupported XP, Vista and Windows 2003 Server, to protect against the supercritical  CVE-2019-07...