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Almost every single computing device, laptop, desktop, router, firewall, keeps a record of things that have changed over time. Borrowing from maritime parlance, we call these “logs”. Logs are ledgers of changes in state, recorded and stored in sequence, and can tell you a lot about what that computing device has been doing, why it has been doing it, and when.
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High Wycombe, UK – 13th June 2019
activereach invited Kyrece’s Legacy to its offices yesterday – the charity had previously been chosen by activereach staff as their “charity of the year”. The charity discussed the great work that it is doing to promote water safety to young children in nearby schools.
Protecting UK energy and utility companies from cyber and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is a top priority for the government. Organizations responsible for critical national infrastructure have become a prime target for denial-of-service events; a DDoS attack is designed to overwhelm networks with bogus traffic and has the potential to cause massive utility outages and service disruption.
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Mobile devices are becoming more and more popular, with forecasts suggesting that by 2020 there will be around 6.58 network connected devices per person. This results in an increase in the number of devices that are lost or stolen. If this happens, it can translate into a huge loss of data –
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2018 was a busy year for retail in the cyber security arena, with many organizations suffering from data breaches during the year, including British Airways and Vision Direct.
British Airways
British Airways suffered a sophisticated data breach affecting around
380,000 customers using its website and mobile app.
The attack –
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Resilient Firewalls, DDoS Mitigation, Multi-factor Authentication are the sexy parts of IT but can be easily brought down if the small things are ignored. By ‘small’ things I really mean the more mundane tasks linked to good IT security;
Anti-Virus
If your AV is not up-to-date and a network user accidentally clicks on a
link, opens an attachment or falls for a phishing scam, it could result in
a destructive virus spreading around the network, locking users out of
important data or destroying the data.
Bots are everywhere and they need to be managed!
In this blog I am going to explore what Bot Management is, the benefits of having a bot management solution as well as provide a comparison between some of the top bot management products in the market for 2019.
more →IoT devices are everywhere and some businesses are only just starting to realise the security implications of so many unmanaged items on their network. The number of IoT devices is forecast to increase five fold to 75 billion devices by 2025. Couple the roll out of cellular IoT and faster 5G networks with vulnerable IoT devices, and you could be gifting hackers the ability to utilise compromised devices to launch DDoS attacks and/or deploy malware.
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.
The total number of known software vulnerabilities published is now over 140,000. 30% of these were reported in the last three years and the rate is increasing.
Source: IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2019
Solution: Larger organisations lacking visibility of Internet-connected devices, and the vulnerabilities that those might have, may benefit from activereach's IP Discovery services, which can map a company's digital skin and provide real-time visibility of it as it changes.
