Tag: monitoring

With a record number of new critical vulnerabilities reported every day, an annual Penetration Test, in isolation, is now (or should be) consigned to the history books.Our own statistics show that on average in the second half of 2020 a total of 644 new vulnerabilities of all threat levels were...

The past few months and weeks have seen a worrying increase in high profile ransomware attacks. Almost every week a new victim comes to the surface. Oil pipelines, national health authorities, the world’s largest meat producer, the list goes on and on. In May, Colonial Pipeline, the company providing almost...

Over recent years many enterprises have invested much of their cyber security budgets in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). The companies offering SIEM solutions are spending millions marketing their solutions, and the promises SIEM makes - you only have to look at the F1 lineup to see their names!"Managed...

We often are asked why an organisation would use Bluedog's M365 Service on top of the subscription they pay to Microsoft, especially the additional Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) licence. So, let's look at a comparison with MS Licence: The main difference is that the bluedog service is a Managed Service....

Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing are two of the most in-demand services that cybersecurity companies offer. Both play an important role in identifying potential risks and both are required to meet some standards including ISO 27001 and PCI. However there is often confusion between the two. So what is the...

bluedog Security Monitoring – the cybersecurity specialist - has achieved the international information security management standard ISO 27001. The accreditation, carried out by CPG, covers the whole of bluedog’s operation and follows a six-month exercise involving staff in four countries. The London-based company - which has representatives in Spain and...

For many organizations, moving to the cloud sounds like  a daunting and super expensive exercise. This is because most of them don't have an idea of what moving to the cloud entails and how to go about it. That's not all! The idea of storing their valuable data off-premises gives...

The work-from-home concept is no novelty. Remote working has been around for years, but it was still mostly popular with the early adopters alone. The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent virus containment measures were the catalysts that turned working from home into a mainstream attitude. The unprecedented global health crisis...