Verizon has published their 13th annual Data Breach Investigations Report – and it focuses on security incidents and breaches that occurred during 2019. The 2020 DBIR analysed 157,525 incidents, 32,002 in detail and confirmed 3950 breaches in 81 countries. Although the scope is global, half of the incidents in the data come from North America […]
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Server hardening is a set of disciplines and techniques which improve the security of an ‘off the shelf’ server. Server Hardening is requirement of security frameworks such as PCI-DSS and is typically included when organisations adopt ISO27001. What is the attack surface The aim of server hardening is to reduce the attack surface of
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After analysing dozens of ransomware incidents over the last 4 years, researchers have identified their defining common characteristics – which can help security managers design targeted defences. Mandiant Intelligence have published a report that reveals the common attributes of ransomware incidents from around the world and across the industrial spectrum. The key findings are:
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In a recent whitepaper, Microsoft provides advice on how to spot RDP attacks in Windows event logs while the attack is still underway. The paper titled: “Data science for cybersecurity: A probabilistic time series model for detecting RDP inbound brute force attacks” succinctly explains the risk posed by RDP servers when published to the internet:
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Security Information and Event Management – SIEM – is the ability to collate and analyse events from across the network in real time in order to detect security incidents and attacks. Many organisations first encounter SIEM when it becomes a compliance exercise in order meet the requirements of a security framework such as PCI-DSS or
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