For many SMBs, the company's website is not just the front-most means of public communication but the main gateway through which business is conducted: e-commerce websites, SaaS with web-based dashboards and administration interfaces, communication platforms - all of them depend...
Securing a company's assets, in all its forms - financial data, customer data, reputation - involves a wide range of measures. SMEs gave a vital advantage in this regard: they have a small operating base in a lean organization that...
Security is no longer a matter of technology alone, it requires the expertise and collaboration of people. The reality is good technology is the combination of both people and process. When security consultancy companies are asked to perform an assessment,...
Mounting a successful attack against a company’s website or network requires three things: Access to the website or network in question. This is obviously true of any public website. For non-public websites, such as internal SharePoint sites, or for the...
In a famous incident, in June 2011, hacktivist group Lulzsec broke into Sony Pictures’ network by exploiting an almost embarrassing security vulnerability, and stole a substantial amount of data which included not only email addresses, but also names and home...
Data is the most elusive kind of asset in the modern economic world. Unlike physical goods, data does not disappear once it is stolen. Sometimes, the truth – or the full extent of the truth – remains unknown for months,...
Who are bluedog? Bluedog Security Monitoring is a new cyber-security vendor providing internal network monitoring and Security Operations Centre (SOC) services to IT services resellers and SMEs. Set-up in early 2018, bluedog makes network security solutions accessible to businesses of...
As a cyber security threats continue to evolve, here are our top 5 Cyber-Security predictions for 2019 First major GDPR fines Regulatory fines for non-compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation are much higher than under the UK's Data...
Advances in online commerce and payment systems, cloud computing and big data have rendered this world vision entirely obsolete. According to security vendor Symantec, in 2015, more than half of the targeted attacks (that is, attacks directed at specific, well-known...
