On my way home from visiting a customer last week, I was thinking about a question that he had raised. He asked me “What is the best way to prepare for a DDoS attack?”
A DDoS attack is a special type of Denial of Service attack. Malicious traffic is generated from a multitude of sources and orchestrated from one central point.
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Do You Really Need A Cyber Incident Playbook?
As part of business continuity planning most organisations have a disaster recovery plan in place in case of a fire, flood or other business impacting incidents, so why should planning for a Cyber Security incident be any different? Building a strong Cyber Incident Playbook is vital and works together with in tandem with other procedures should issues arise.
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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.
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You can’t turn on the news without hearing about Brexit, but exactly how it is going to affect your business in relation to data protection?
What UK companies should do about data protection and GDPR when we Brexit
Six Steps to GDPR Compliance post Brexit:
We recently looked at the many types of hackers, but now we take a closer look at which of hacker tends to perpetrate DDoS attacks and why they use this method.
DDoS attacks are one of the oldest types of cyberattacks, but they have still seen a massive growth recently.
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