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The dizzying speeds of development in today’s technologies create more opportunities for cybercriminals than ever before. Each year we are seeing more and more challenges in the fight against cybercrime. With so many potential targets in the IT environment: on-premise networks, cloud, mobile, and IoT devices, there are many areas that could provide a vulnerability for a cybercriminal to take advantage of.
more →This month we are sharing a blog from our partner eSentire that takes a look at how artificial intelligence and machine learning can help you deal with data security.
Tap AI and ML to scan security and threat logs as part of a two-pronged approach to security and threat detection
We’re now in a machine-scale world, where the scale, complexity and dynamism of data exceeds human capacity to keep up with it.
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High Wycombe, UK – 17th December 2019
Is Your Network Cyber Safe This Christmas?
activereach, leading UK cybersecurity integrator, has been “knocking on doors” of local businesses with a unique Christmas message. In true festive spirit, the sales team at activereach has been offering gifts of mince pies, ice scrapers and a FREE Cyber Threat Check to neighbouring businesses on the Cressex Business Park.
There is a lot of discussion going into the SIEM vs SOAR debate at the moment and it is extremely important to understand the difference between these two cyber security tools. SIEM and SOAR have several common features, and do complement each other, but we cannot use these terms interchangeably.
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Financial Services Still A Prime Target
Despite spending many millions of pounds on security, financial services organizations continue to be one of the top targets for cybercriminals, with cyber-incident reports from the UK finance sector increasing by 1,000% in 2018. The access to the vast amounts of money that the financial industry trades and controls, along with the sensitive personal information they store, continues to make them a prime target.
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We have reached that time of year again. The clocks have been put back, the nights get darker, and the weather is getting colder. Halloween is out of the way, so we are all on the countdown to Christmas. And part of the countdown includes two more recent American traditions – Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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The Domain Name System (DNS) has gone through many changes over the years since its birth around 1985. But even before this, in the very early days of computer networking, it became a necessity to map the computerised machine addresses of computer and network entities to more human friendly names.
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The trend for digital systems replacing older technology is far from new. In the past, when newspapers moved from a traditional, labour intensive approach where typesetters had a job for life, to computer aided production, we probably would have termed it “replacing with new technology”. However, the rate at which the current wave of “digital transformation”, as we now term it, is sweeping through many industries is hugely significant, both in its effect on those companies involved and in the way it exposes them to threats and vulnerabilities in today’s Internet connected world.
more →We wanted a way to ensure that web access complied with our company policy and were looking for a more flexible and better controlled approach to spam and virus protection. activereach managed to deliver on both counts and we have been very happy with the speed of support on the odd occasion we have had a query.
In 2017, 92% of malware came in by e-mail. 6% over a web browser.
Source: 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report 11th edition
Solution: Viruses, worms, trojans, backdoors and ransomware come in by e-mail and via the web. Arrange your defences appropriately. Ask about our e-mail and web controls.
