Keeping an eye on what staff are doing on the Internet is something that many organisations want to do. There are multiple reasons for monitoring what sites people are visiting and for how long, such as cybersecurity, productivity, and staff protection from damaging content. Most organisations will have web content-blocking software in place that controls […]
Proactive cybersecurity defence is essential when combatting threats from cybercriminals and their unending cyberattacks. Keeping up with the rapidly changing attack surface and risk factors is now probably beyond most people. The volume of data involved and the speed at which attacks proceed and spread requires countermeasures that operate at the same speed and scale. […]
Delivering cyber resilience for businesses and other organisations requires a multifaceted cybersecurity strategy. The protections need to cover identity access & management, endpoints, malware defences, robust network edge protection via firewalls and intrusion systems, and many other technological and training based protections. The technology and people-focused security techniques combine into an overall strategy that prevents […]
More new code is being written and deployed today than ever before. This statement will continue to be true for the foreseeable future as new applications streamline business functions, plus more of the physical world is digitised and made smart with IoT technologies. To facilitate this ever-increasing amount of code development organisations have adopted DevOps […]
Encrypting data at rest and in transit over the network is essential. Cryptographic keys provide the foundation of all encryption. These keys provide the cryptographic codes used to encrypt data, and the security and reputation of the keys supply the trust in the encryption process. The move to the cloud has not changed the need […]
Higher education, indeed the whole education sector, has been impacted a lot by the COVID-19 lockdown. Colleges and Universities have been under pressure due to rising student numbers and constrained budgets for a few years. The sudden need for remote learning due to campus closures has exacerbated that situation. Many educational institutions have made some […]
In a previous article, we outlined the three pillars of identity management at a high level. They are: Identity and Authentication Management (IAM) – the core of identity management used to verify the identity of users and systems requesting access, authenticate them, and then authorise access to the systems and data they are allowed to use. […]
The battle to keep IT and OT (Operational Technology) systems secure from cybercriminals, and to prevent accidental data leakage, is an ongoing task. Malicious adversaries are just as smart as those who seek to protect systems from attack. As protections are put in place then, as night follows day, ways to circumvent them are discovered […]
Applications are the core of most IT-related activity. Ultimately at the end of each work process that generates or manipulates data, there will be people using applications. These applications can be web apps in a browser, mobile apps on smartphones or tablets, or traditional desktop or centralised database-backed business applications. Today these applications are frequently […]