Things you wish you had done!

Hindsight is great

When you get online/into the virtual office at 0900 on a Monday morning the last thing you want to be greeted with is something like this:

Ransomware and various other major cyber incidents are not fun to deal with, they hard everyone, from the end customer, your staff and ultimately your bottom line. We hate ransomware so we’ve put together a quick list of things to think about to help you prepare not only to prevent but also to respond so that hopefully your security posture holds strong but also if it does falter you can recover in a timely manner without any bitcoin payments being made! Read more “Things you wish you had done!” →

Defense

Lack of HTTPS does not automatically mean that you…

An industry mainly filled with good people but too many sharks

It’s becoming more and more common, I see content posted online, I hear people in meetings (hell I’ve been invited into some ‘opportunities’) and the basic theme seems to be:

Fill your profile with as many buzzwords as possible
Try and make your organisation seems legit and have links to the police and security services
Call out crazy stuff like the lack of HTTPS as “TOTALLY COMPROMISED”
Ignore science
Post sales adverts under Security Services and Police posts to leach ‘authority’
Constantly use statistics to back up their position
Use social swarming (multiple people from the same company will rally around to defend/attack someone who questions the narrative)

Defense

Regular Security Operations Activities – Small Business Edition

Introduction

Barely a day goes by without reading about a new breach, organisations both large and small are under constant thread from cyber criminals and most organisations are either living in ignorant bliss or are one mistake away from being pwn3d. To this end I wanted to publish a list of activities that small businesses can conduct on a regular basis to help improve their security posture. The focus here is on organisations that operate an active directory domain environment but some of the areas can apply to many systems/architectures.