Infosecurity Opinions
SSH Key Management: What To Focus On Now
The awareness of the importance of proper management of SSH user keys is growing, but confusion still abounds within organizations.
Commercial Security Systems for the Digital Age
The best commercial security systems will be a step ahead of the people who are trying to breach the security systems in question.
The Internet of Toys: How Young Is Too Young to Bombard Our Children with the IoT?
For these children, the Internet of Things (IoT) isn’t a ‘brave new world’, it’s the only reality they know
Next Step Security – How to Defend Against Perimeter Breaches
Alex Winterflood, solutions architect, MTI Technology, outlines the benefits of network micro-segmentation and how this new approach is set to change the security landscape by enabling granular-level protection if a hacker breaches the perimeter.
Barbarians at the Gate - Shoring Up Web Application Defenses with Client Reputation
Adding client reputation monitoring to a cloud security strategy not only helps stop malicious attacks at the source, but also provides the security intelligence needed for improved security decisions and risk evaluation.
Securing your Personal Entry Points
Perhaps it is time to treat each member of staff as an individual local area network (LAN).
How to Address the Cybersecurity Resourcing Challenge
Many businesses are ill-equipped to address disruption of networks, attacks on infrastructure, DDoS attacks and theft of personal data, leaving them vulnerable to hackers.
Threat Hunting: Root out the Bad Guys Before it’s Too Late
With cybercrime high on the agenda for many, IT professionals have spent too much time and energy discussing the causes, methods and impact of data breaches
Best Practices for the SOC Team – Where to Automate, Where to Think
Security Operations Centers (SOC) teams in organizations are finding it especially difficult to build teams with the right balance of skills and experience.
Finding Alternative Ways to Close the Security Gap
How does IT keep pace with all the new trends coming into the workplace, whilst ensuring that security is not compromised.
The Surprising Security Benefits of Data on Demand
Network speeds now routinely hit 100 Gigabits per second, or roughly 70 million times faster than the typical network connection.
Threat Intelligence Sharing: The Only Way to Combat Our Growing Skills Gap
Despite phenomenal growth, continued investment and a proliferation of new technologies, the cybersecurity industry is still fighting its biggest challenge yet – that of finding and retaining talented security professionals.
Why Cyber Protection Needs to be at the Scene of the Crime
The modus operandi of the new generation of cyber-attackers is best defined by two key facets.
How Secure is Your Company?
How secure is your company, really? Most security professionals can’t answer this fundamental question.
Why MX Records Matter in the Fight Against BEC and Spear Phishing
By implementing integrated MX-record monitoring, and proactively blocking inbound emails from these potential attack platforms, security is dramatically reducing the enterprises’ imminent risks from spear phish or BEC attacks.
Defending Against Malicious Domains
Cyber-criminals are constantly waging a cat-and-mouse game with threat researchers. Across the world, cyber-criminals rapidly create malicious domains as a base for launching cyber-attacks against organisations’ Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure.
What does SIEM stand for?
While it is widely understood – and required by regulation – that the availability of accurate log data is a mandatory requirement for a working security incident management process, many organizations are still struggling to make sense out of it.
Defending Advanced Persistent Threats - Be Better Prepared to Face the Worst
APT, with its sophisticated and mercurial way of achieving its focused objectives, represents a fundamental shift in the traditional cyber-attack models
2016: Time for Security to Take its Head out of the “Sand” (box)
Containment is a fairly new concept, deviating from the widely known and popular “sandboxing” method.
