Mobile application penetration testing: What’s involved? By Alex Harper - October 13th, 2021 Posted in Information Security A mobile application penetration test is a security assessment carried out on a native mobile application. A native mobile application is...
Business Email Compromise: What it is and how to stop it? By Hannah Pisani - October 12th, 2021 Posted in Information Security A business email compromise (“BEC”) attack is a type of spear-phishing attack, in which a malicious actor specifically targets an employe...
Securing operational technologies By Matt Gerry - September 29th, 2021 Posted in Information Security cyber security, IT, operational technologies, software, systems As operational technology (“OT”) systems have increasingly become connected, their attack surface has grown and made them attractive to c...
Internal vs external penetration testing By Alex Harper - September 3rd, 2021 Posted in Information Security cyber security, information security, pen test, pen testing, penetration testing A penetration test is a point in time assessment of your company’s security posture. In the battle against cyber attackers, penetration t...
Important security questions to ask your supply chain By Marcus Chambers - August 16th, 2021 Posted in Business Continuity, Information Security cyber risk, cyber security, secure supply chain, security questions, supplier chain, supply chain, third party suppliers Do you know what questions to ask your supply chain? Marcus Chambers, senior security consultant at Evalian, outlines the important secur...
The Kaseya cyber-attack: an important lesson in supply chain security By Hannah Pisani - August 3rd, 2021 Posted in Information Security, News & Resources cyber attack, cyber security, data breach, kaseya, ransomware, ransomware attack, risk July 2nd, 2021, was the start of a difficult period for IT management software firm, Kaseya. The company suffered a devastating ransomwar...
Just how big a threat is online crime? 2021 By Philip Harris - July 12th, 2021 Posted in Information Security cyber attack, cyber crime, cyber criminals, data security, information security, online crime 2021 update Online crime is a potent problem that isn’t going away. Two years ago, when we published the first instalment of this blog (s...
Ethical hacking and penetration testing: what’s the difference? By Alex Harper - July 7th, 2021 Posted in Data Protection, Information Security bug bounties, cyber security, ethical hacking, pen test, pen testing, penetration testing, vulnerabilities, vulnerability scans In 1998, the US-based hacker collective, L0pht Heavy Industries, found a way to shut down the Internet within 30 minutes. Rather than cau...
