No business too small to be a target for Cyber crime
Read More: No business too small to be a target for Cyber crimeSmall to Mid enterprise companies in Australia are extremely vulnerable to revenue disruption and most likely financial disaster from cyber breach – Auto parts importer lost $880k 2 months ago as an example, not the typical target for a cyber criminal, or is it? Yesterday in one Risk Intelligence report we ran for a client…
Bypassing an EDR
Read More: Bypassing an EDRFollowing Blue team security researchers is extremely fascinating. The battleground of Blue teams vs cyber criminals is constantly moving forward. The linked article below is a security researchers demonstrating how to avoid detection with most EDR solutions. combining all of our knowledge, we now can practically use everything we want, under the radar, evading the…
ACSC Essential Eight #1
Read More: ACSC Essential Eight #1Commence your cyber security resilience journey with the ACSC Essential eight, the ACSC is short for the Australian Cyber Security Centre and the ACSC the central source for all things related to the Australian Government cyber security strategy. The ACSC is not the sole source of truth and most of the ACSC recommendations do relate…
“inventory stock” for Facebook, is you!
Read More: “inventory stock” for Facebook, is you!But you know that already! Interesting comparison in the linked article below and somewhat equivalent , though the post “person” selling our private information could not go as far as Facebook has been able to unhindered. In my opinion it is not that my data is being sold which is an issue, it is the…
Empathy in cyber security
Read More: Empathy in cyber securityEmpathy, the ability to understand the feelings of others as if we are in their shoes. Have we as cyber security professionals really thought that the target of a Malware attack is not us when we evaluate our cyber security posture? It is almost never the business leader or the person reading these articles that…
The problem is NOT Cyber security!
Read More: The problem is NOT Cyber security!The โCompliance with the NSW Cyber Security Policyโ special report released on the 28th October 2021 should be a serious concern to every NSW resident who has their Personally Identifiable Information being โsecurelyโ held by a government agency.ย Vic, NSW, QLD, SA, NT and TAS could very likely be transposed with NSW and these findings…
Hyperbole – Cyber incident response
Read More: Hyperbole – Cyber incident responseHyperbole (love the word!) โฆ.. I would be disappointed if my business leaders thought that my security team could not respond to a cyber incident. The linked article describes that business leaders do not feel their organisation could respond to a cyber incident. So what is the problem? The article is not an accurate impression?…
Controls vs. Control functions
Cyber security planning
Read More: Controls vs. Control functionsGetting your terminology right is extremely important and I for one have made this error before. Control – Anything directly or indirectly used that affects the frequency or magnitude of a loss. Control Function – How a control directly or indirectly affects the frequency or magnitude of a loss.
Cyber security planning
AV NGAV EDR XDR MDR AMDR
Read More: AV NGAV EDR XDR MDR AMDRThe cyber security landscape has seen huge expansion and growth in the past 5 years and End Point Detection and Response (EDR) has been one of the biggest areas of expansion. https://www.morphisec.com/hubfs/2020%20State%20of%20Endpoint%20Security%20Final.pdf According to Ponemon Institute, 68% of organisations suffered one or more endpoint attacks that successfully compromised data or IT Infrastructure. In 2018 Gartner…
Sinclair Broadcasting Breach
Read More: Sinclair Broadcasting BreachStory: Another ‘murican Fortune 500 company breached and affected by a Ransomware attack. With Broadcasters, retailers (online and store), NBN service providers, BNPL, Transport, Tourism (lol), some utilities etc etc….. there is an immediate cost to your business profits from an outage, customers are not patient and will go elsewhere immediately and buy their product…