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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 →This month we are sharing a blog from our partner eSentire that takes a look at the attack life cycle.
Understanding the life cycle of an attack is a key component to being able to prevent, detect and respond. Depending on how attackers target an organization there are specific compensating controls and visibility that can be put in place.
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Maintaining compliance in the cloud is fundamental to consumer confidence and ensuring organizations meet data regulations, thus avoiding fines and legal action. A recent cloud security report found that 85% of organizations see continuous compliance as a priority when migrating workloads.
So what are the biggest 2019 cloud compliance challenges?
more →This month we are sharing a blog from our partner Check Point Dome9 that takes a look at securing your environments automatically with CloudBots.
We’re living in the age of rapid growth of cloud environments. More organizations scale their development process in the cloud with multiple accounts and endless number of services.
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Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS is an attack where there is an attempt to render an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple distributed sources.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is a pivotal organization in cyber security advice and supports the most critical organizations in the UK, the wider public sector, industry, SMEs and the general public.
more →As a service provider, our network has to run 24 hours a day, every day, and that means we need reliable equipment and rock-solid support. activereach has provided us both – helping us to provide excellent service to our customers by working with our 3rd line engineers to iron out any bugs and plan the changes we make to the network infrastructure.
59% of organisations will suffer a negative impact from an email attack this year
Source: Mimecast Report – The State of Email Security 2018
Solution: Cybersecurity training and anti-phishing systems can help toughen up your "human firewall".
