Artificial Intelligence – Managed Detection and Response
Read More: Artificial Intelligence – Managed Detection and ResponseTwo buzzwords applied to almost all Cyber Security companies products today are: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning or AI and ML. What exactly the AI or ML technology in these solutions and managed service offerings we consume are providing, is open to debate; as is the depth of implementation and integration. However there are great…
shutting down a phishing site
Read More: shutting down a phishing sitePhishing is one of if not the highest success rate cyber security attacks that we are likely to suffer. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3), phishing accounted for 30,48% of all received complaints in 2020, making it the area with the highest victim count. https://www.techradar.com/author/fernando-cassia Being that most of my readers have an…
Human error, human error, ho hum…
Read More: Human error, human error, ho hum…Do the easiest(cheapest) thing first that give your the biggest benefit or the first 80% of a job takes 20% of the time, both statements lead to a conclusion that it is most efficient to work on what is going to be most affordable and easy first. The article I have linked reports that the…
Business Email compromise
Read More: Business Email compromiseBusiness Email Compromise (BEC) is a Social engineering attack and one of the most likely to succeed and provide a large benefit for the attacker. I have a recent example with a conveyancer where their email footer stated “We will not request money via email” – well in their final email requesting funds they removed…
Customer ignores MSP advice and is breached?
Read More: Customer ignores MSP advice and is breached?In the case of ever increasing and tightening reporting requirements and breached clients potentially being sued for damages, it is your reputation as the MSP that will be affected in a blame game scenario.
91% of Cyber Attacks are Email initiated!
Read More: 91% of Cyber Attacks are Email initiated!91% of Cyber Attacks start with email according to Microsoft, yet email is the least exciting area for us to focus our Cyber security efforts in. Quote from The Register (ignore the sarcasm): “That being the case, why is Microsoft bothering to sound the alarm? Well, 91 per cent of all cyberattacks originate with email, according to…
Pfizer up and win $90
Read More: Pfizer up and win $90$90 (at least) for completing a Pfizer survey…. amazing but how did they know I have just had my first Pfizer jab? It surely is not a coincidence, or is it? This is a classic Phishing attempt, using the knowledge that scammers have about us socially, in this case the biggest broadest brushiest brush that…
Data Protection as an afterthought
Read More: Data Protection as an afterthought8 Terabytes lost….. 14 Terabytes of data recovered from a data migration gone wrong….. that was called a deletion of data not a migration when I worked as a Sys admin or a “Career limiting move”. Considering that the parts of a data migration plan I would outline involve: 1. Assess what data needs to…
Employees vs Home owners
Read More: Employees vs Home ownersOr a look into the psychology I have written about this before and today I saw a question today on linkedin related (Thanks David) …….. But I ran out of words to post as a comment. I want to start by suggesting that often security officers and auditors do not think about the companies assets…
