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Incident response: What to do in the event of a cyber attack

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Over the past 12 months, there were 7.78 million incidents of cyber crime against UK businesses (Gov.uk). Cyber crime is evolving and increasing at a rapid pace, and the UK government are planning to introduce additional measures including the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill as an effort to boost the nation’s defences against cyber crime. […]

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Understanding the red team vs blue team approach to cyber security

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If you’ve ever enquired about testing services on your organisation’s infrastructure, you might have been presented with terms including red team, blue team, and purple team. Whilst each testing approach has a different methodology, they ultimately aim to bolster your organisation’s security defences and support your efforts with defending against cyber attacks and data breaches.

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CrowdStrike Major IT Outage

Exploring the cause, consequences, and recovery efforts of the recent CrowdStrike cyber incident On Friday 19 July 2024, global cyber security firm, CrowdStrike, released a content update for Windows hosts, resulting in a major IT outage that affected businesses and services worldwide. Significant disruptions to those included banks, airlines, railways, telecommunications companies, TV and radio

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AI and Cyber Security: Navigating the Benefits and Risks for Your Business

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In our ever-evolving digital landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) and cyber security are two areas that have taken SME businesses by storm. With AI’s potential to revolutionise how we approach cyber security, understanding its benefits and risks is crucial for any business looking to effectively safeguard its digital assets. Discover the intersection of cyber security and

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Introducing Cyber Security For Your Staff – Where Do You Start?

As the digital world encroaches further into our professional lives, it becomes increasingly important for businesses of all sizes, including SMEs, to foster a strong culture of cyber security. Educating your staff about cyber security is no longer a choice but a necessity. But where exactly do you start? This article will guide you through

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The Complete Guide to Business Cyber Security Threats in 2023

Business cyber security threats are growing year on year. Cyber criminals are constantly finding new ways to exploit vulnerabilities and infiltrate networks, leading to data breaches, financial loss, and reputational damage. To safeguard your business, it’s crucial to understand these threats and take proactive steps to prevent them. Let’s uncover the most prevalent cyber security

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Top 8 Cyber Security Mistakes Businesses Must Avoid for Effective Protection

In our digital age, we are all aware that cyber security is a crucial part of our business. From firewalls and anti-malware to password management and user access controls – there are many security methods that look to protect your devices and data. But when businesses are looking to secure their systems and data, they

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Defying Gravity: The Cyber Security Frontier in Space and Beyond

The UK space industry is experiencing rapid growth, positioning itself as a prominent player in the global space sector. In the recent research delivered by UK Parliament, the total UK space industry income grew to £16.5 billion (+5.1%) in 2021 and supports around 47,000 jobs across the country. On 31st March 2023, Citation Cyber’s Chief Technology

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UK Economic Downturn: The key steps to keeping your business secure

The recent economic downturn has put many UK businesses under a significant amount of pressure to remain operational and profitable. Unfortunately, this pressure can often result in companies overlooking cyber security, which could ultimately lead to devastating consequences. In this article, we will explore how to economic downturn could affect business’ cyber security and what

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What Insurance Companies Think of Cyber Security

With the pandemic, the world has entered a new era of digitalisation and technological advancements. Today many day-to-day business activities are conducted using advanced digital technologies, which has also opened a new stream of cyber attacks. From 2021 to 2022, there was a 38% increase in global cyber attacks.  With increasing cyber attacks, cyber insurance

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Feature Release – Cyber Intel

Having recently rebranded as Citation Cyber, we aspire to continue improving the quality of our product and service offering. With this in mind, we are introducing some new features to our Automated Intelligent Scanner, Cyber Intel (formerly Mitiintel). Cyber Intel is our automated vulnerability scanning tools that discovers vulnerabilities on any type of IT infrastructure.

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New Year, New Cyber Security Planning

2022 has once again proved to be a challenging year for cyber security. Many damaging cyber attacks happened in the last year, including the devastating Log4Shell flaw, Uber internal systems breach, Dropbox phishing attack, Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, and many more. With the surging cyber attacks and changing cyber security landscape, it is important for organisations

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Citation Cyber is Live!

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In 2020, we rebranded from Xyone to Mitigate Cyber, and in June 2022, we were acquired by The Citation Group – a leading provider of compliance and quality solutions. The services offered by The Citation Group perfectly complement our product portfolio, and the synergies between us will be extremely beneficial to our clients and partners. As a

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