THREAT MANAGEMENT ACRONYMS EXPLAINED
Threat management solutions and services for information security come in a broad range of different types, the applicability of which depends upon the nature of your organization, your specific...
How to Plan an Effective Cybersecurity Budget
September 1, 2020
Determining the size and scope of a cybersecurity budget is a puzzling endeavor for many organizations, especially small- and medium-sized enterprises. Such a trend is alarming as close to 70 percent of all cyberattacks are targeting SMBs since the mid-2010s. One of the main challenges when drafting a cybersecurity budget for your organization is that […]
How Covid-19 Pandemic Creates New Digital Transformation Opportunities
Digital transformation has been a buzzword for over a decade, progressing at varied speeds across different industries. Paradoxically, the recent Covid-19 pandemic is about to accelerate...
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR): Are vendors making a chump out of you?
In The Wizard of Oz, the stranded heroine ‘Dorothy’ travels a long way to meet the all-powerful ‘Wizard’ and ask for his help getting back home to Kansas. When she finally meets him, she...
SIEMs, EDRs, SOCs, MSSPs – cyber security’s false prophets
Let’s address the elephants in the room. SIEMs, EDRs, SOCs and MSSPs. The first problem with these technologies is that they’re listed as effective controls or approaches in most security...
Why SIEMs Are the Achille’s Heel of the Cybersecurity World
If your organization is worried about its network security, congratulations! You should be. If you weren’t, we’d be worried. Unfortunately, information security is an often-overlooked, but...
Is Microsoft one of the most effective AV vendors on the planet?
If you’d asked us this question only a few years ago we would have laughed in your face. Today, not so much. For the past 18 months, we’ve been comparing all the validated breaches we’ve...
The NIST Privacy Framework: Here’s what it means (and what it doesn’t)
Even if you’re the kind of person who loves to overshare on social media – and who doesn’t?! – you have the right to your privacy. You also have the right to expect that your privacy will be...
IoT/OT Defence: Removing the Myth Pragmatically
The threat posed by state-sponsored threat actors on critical infrastructure has been a heated topic of discussion since 2010 and again this week the ACSC raised further concerns. While a lot of...
LMNTRIX: Security Done Different
We usually write about general cybersecurity issues and insights, but today we want to share what we’ve been up to with our team at LMNTRIX since we’ve been asked about what we are...
The Toll hacks: 5 steps to ensure it never happens to you
While it can be argued that cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility, some are better placed to deal with threats. Having the knowledge and ability to deal with ransomware, and ultimately...
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