Cyber Security

Harnessing Layer 7: Enhanced Network Security and Performance Monitoring

In today’s increasingly complex digital landscape, the need for robust network visibility, threat detection, and perform...

What is Network Visibility and Why is It Essential for Cyber Security?

In today's hyper-connected world, network visibility has become a cornerstone for maintaining robust security and optima...

This Week in Cyber 14th June 2024

Latest news and views from our Cyber Analysts

The Rising Cyber Threat to Critical National Infrastructure

Critical national infrastructure (CNI) from energy to health to financial networks are all facing the growing threat of ...

Securing Identity Access Management (IAM) Platforms

Identity Access Management (IAM) platforms are a highly adopted security solution, growing in popularity, and rightly so...

What are the Implications of Quantum Computing for Cyber Security?

In recent years, the technology sector has been alive with discussions around quantum computing and how it promises to r...

The Growing Threat of AI-Powered Cyber Attacks

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the cyber threat landscape is a growing concern for organisations across ...

What Cyber Security Practices Should SMEs Prioritise Amidst Resource Limitations?

Tightening budgets and a shortfall in cyber security professionals are barriers to SMEs having the cyber security standa...

Guardians of the Network: The Rise Of Ethical Hackers

What goes on in the Shadows: Addressing the Looming Threat of Shadow IT

This article explores what shadow IT is, why employees use it and how it can be effectively addressed.

The Most Important Cyber Security Trends in 2023 and Beyond | Advances in Threats and Tech

In today's fast-paced digital world, cyber security is more important than ever before. As technology continues to advan...

Understanding the Risks of Supply Chain Cyber Attacks

As businesses become increasingly reliant on technology, the potential for cyber attacks on supply chains continues to r...

Artificial Intelligence: A Friend or Foe for Cyber Security?

As the use of AI and the speed of its development rapidly increases, we investigate its impact on cyber security.

Cyber Security Challenges in Education

The education sector has always been highly targeted by cyber criminals, we take a look at some of the challenges faced ...

Vulnerability Assessments & Threat Hunting – Why you should be combining the two

Combining vulnerability assessments and pro-active threat hunting can help to identify weaknesses and deep dive into you...

Insecure Enterprise Networks: The cost of data breaches vs the cost of network security for businesses

In July 2020, CWT global paid out $4.5 million as a consequence of one of the most expensive ransomware attacks of all t...

IoT New Regulations

International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that by 2025, there will be 41.6 billion connected IoT devices. However, ...

What does the lack of IoT security mean for 5G?

The Internet of Things (IoT) has surged in popularity in recent years, with consumers embracing interconnected technolog...

Updating Core Cyber Security Infrastructure: Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)

Any business of any size is reliant on their ability to protect and secure their technology, data and networks from the ...

Cyber Threat Visibility: Which threats should defenders be looking for?

A network security team can only fight what they can see, an organisation’s network security depends on their ability to...

Cyber Intelligence for Shipping assets

ENISA produced its first EU-report on Maritime Cyber Security back in 2011, warning of the low cyber security awareness ...

Breaking Down DDoS UDP Flood Attacks

A UDP flood is a type of volume-based DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, where large numbers of UDP (User Data...

Protecting a Content Delivery Network (CDN) from Cyber Attacks

A Content Delivery Network or CDN is a system of distributed servers and nodes that delivers web content to a user, base...

Securing Mobile Networks

Legacy telecommunications protocols have stood the test of time, underpinning the foundations of our day-to-day communic...

Infographic: The cyber security visibility puzzle

APT groups are constantly seeking new targets and evaluating opportunities for data espionage, sabotage, and theft. One ...

Spotting rogue TLS connections with JA3 fingerprinting

It’s impossible to imagine modern networks without the security and privacy provided by Transport Layer Security (TLS) e...

JA3 Fingerprinting: Encrypted Threat Detection

As our dependence on interconnected technologies grows so does the risk of our personal data getting into the hands of m...

Preparing for Cyber Warfare: Strengthen your NetSecOps with nation-scale attack simulation

The cyber landscape continues to be a challenging place for public and private organisations alike. Both are often on th...

FaceApp – a big data security threat or just smoke?

FaceApp has officially gone viral and while many people are enjoying seeing how they would look when they are older, man...

Data generation is increasing, so too should data storage

Big data security threats are nothing new. We continue to see conversations and articles surrounding IoT, Edge computing...

The Evolution of NFV Network Visibility and Security at Scale

NFV (Network Function Virtualisation) migration continues on our large scale, country-wide national network infrastructu...

What do you mean we are flying blind?

The drive towards the use of cloud computing, cloud platforms and cloud data storage within most industries has been pro...

Part 2 : What is driving the growth of Edge technology and where is it heading?

Whilst the Cloud will continue to remain a cornerstone of virtual computing power, with Fog computing looking to ease so...

The APT Series Part 2 ‘APT33’

Seeing an attacker enables you to defend against them, a way to effect this is to lay over the physical network and its ...