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This month we are sharing a blog from our security partner Radware that takes a look at recent attacks on the financial services industry.
Over the last few weeks, Radware has been tracking a significant Credential Stuffing Campaign targeting the financial industry in the United States and Europe.
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DDoS (distributed denial of service) tests are a great way to identify any problems you may have in local or cloud-based mitigation. By simulating a real attack, you can see how malicious actors could infiltrate your systems and carry out a DDoS attack or perpetrate a data breach.
There are numerous different ways to launch a DDoS attack test;
more →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.
more →Living In the Clouds
You really can’t talk about IT these days without mentioning cloud or something-as-a-service. For some it is hard to remember a time when we did not have the cloud, at least in some basic form. But I do remember the beginnings, and for me the whole cloud journey has come full circle.
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High Wycombe, UK – 16th November 2018
10 years ago, activereach was just an idea!
The company was incorporated in 2008 and founded by Directors Mike Revell and Raza Rizvi. The duo had worked together previously with great success, holding senior management positions at several of the UK’s top ICT businesses.
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As activereach celebrates its 10th birthday, we take a retrospective look at the past decade of cybersecurity
I love to go on long country hikes. The problem is, along with getting more tired as I get older, the human mind stops paying attention to its surrounding over time and starts to crave novelty and anomaly.
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According to the Global Cybersecurity Status Report conducted by ISACA International in 2015, just 38% of global organizations claim they are prepared to handle a sophisticated cyber-attack. This scarily small figure shows just how at risk we are. Cyber-attacks are becoming increasingly common; a 2017 Malwarebytes report found that the frequency of ransomware attacks alone has increased by nearly 2000% in the past 2 years.
more →This month we are sharing a blog from our security partner Dome9 that takes a look at the five most likely public cloud threats.
The move to AWS and other public cloud services is a strategic initiative for many enterprises today. While companies rush to expand their cloud presence and use more cloud services, security considerations are lagging behind.
more →We were very pleased to use activereach and would not hesitate to use them again. Their implementation of a VPN solution required an understanding of our existing network, remote configuration of our equipment and the creation of a secure VPN.
Their technical understanding of our requirements allowed the work to be done efficiently and on schedule. This meant that we could concentrate on our own core business; secure in the knowledge that the VPN was correctly setup.
78% of 2.7m people tested in 2017 did not click on a phishing link all year. Well done. However, an average of 4% of people in each test clicked on an unknown link. Not as comforting.
Source: 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report 11th edition
Solution: Cybersecurity training and anti-phishing systems can help toughen up your "human firewall".
