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 –
more →This month we are sharing a blog from our partner Radware that takes a look at DDoS mitigation testing.
A couple of months ago, I was on a call with a company that was in the process of evaluating DDoS mitigation services to protect its data centers. This company runs mission critical applications and were looking for comprehensive coverage from various types of attacks, including volumetric, low and slow, encrypted floods, and application-layer attacks.
more →Health insurance company BUPA has been hitting the headlines over the past year or so due a significant data breach that took place in early 2017.
Between January 6th – March 11th 2017, an employee managed to access their customer relationship management system (SWAN), and extract credentials of 547,000 global customers.
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In this 2-part blog Information Security veteran Max Pritchard looks back on the data breach at credit reference agency, Equifax, examines the events that led up to the breach, and the company’s actions during and immediately after the breach. See part 2 for where we are a year after the breach and discover what we can learn from it.
more →Mental health in the workplace is increasingly becoming recognised by CEOs and MDs across the globe, with businesses finding that happier employees means increased productivity. However, it is still a largely unaddressed issue that cannot be ignored. Stress seems to be considered normal; in his 2018 book, Jeremy Pfeffer refers to long working hours as a necessity for employees wanting to advance in their career.
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Companies report that they are highly committed to gender diversity, but that commitment has not translated into meaningful progress.
According to a 2017 report by Frost & Sullivan, only 11% of global cybersecurity roles are filled by females. This figure reflects how male-heavy the profession is compared to the general workforce with an almost 50-50 split between the genders.
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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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