Upskill Your Workforce With Mitigate Cyber CPD Training

Upskill workforce

Mitigate Cyber Security is proud to announce that it has achieved accredited CPD Status with the CPD Standards Office. To achieve the accreditation Mitigate Cyber Security has undergone a rigorous assessment process that focused on the development and delivery of our training including how we collect and utilise/ delegate feedback and how Mitigate ensures our […]

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IASME becomes the NCSC Partner for Cyber Essentials – What does that mean for you?

IASME Cyber Essentials

Since the launch of Cyber essentials in 2014, there has been a steady rise in businesses adopting the scheme to make the UK the safest place to do business online. Over 35,000 certificates has been issued over the past 5 years but the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) have made it clear that they want

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Free Remote Working E-Learning

Remote Working

During this uncertain time, companies are forced to embrace remote working by the Covid-19 pandemic. Working from home is a concept, not everyone is used to or prepared for especially when it comes to keeping yourself secure from cyber security risks. Here at Mitigate, we want to help you all stay safe and with that

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CREST receives $1.4M grant to help build cyber security capacity in Africa and Asia to help increase safe access to digital financial services for the poor

CREST, the not-for-profit accreditation and certification body for the technical security industry, has received a grant of $1.4 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help increase cyber security capacity in Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Robust growth, adoption and usage of digital financial services by the poor can

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Phish of the Month – Coronavirus Scams

Coronavirus scams

At least 3.4 billion phishing emails are sent worldwide each day and unfortunately, this includes the utilisation of international tragedies. Cyber criminals are cashing in on the global coronavirus epidemic by sending misleading phishing emails to exploit unsuspecting readers. The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, is now affecting 43 countries around the world and has over 81,280

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What effect does Windows 7 have on the Cyber Essentials Certification?

Windows 7 cyber essentials

Windows 7 End of Life On 14th January 2020, Microsoft ended all support for the widely used Windows 7 operating system, despite this, a large number of the world’s computers, mostly in corporate environments, are still running the nine-year-old system. The End of Life (EOL) for Windows 7 means there will be no further software/security updates including

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Mitigate co-host successful executive roundtable

Mitigate Cyber Security co-hosted an exective roundtable to discuss pressing cyber security concerns on June 13th in Manchester, alongside IT service provider summ.it and insurance broker A&B. Attending were subject matter experts such as Det Ch Supt Neil J. Jones, Police Lead at the Manchester Digital Security Centre, alongside SME owners and IT professionals representing sectors ranging from legal to retail.

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Mitigate at CyberUK 2019 – Hosted by (NCSC)

Event details When: 24 –25 April 2019 Where: Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow CYBERUK is the UK government’s flagship cyber security event. Hosted by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), it features world-class speakers, solutions and opportunities for interaction between the public and private sectors. You will be briefed on the evolving cyber threat and how we must

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Misuse of Multi-Factor Authentication

When it comes to authentication, multi-factor authentication is the name of the game. We’ve spilled a lot of digital ink on the topic previously, and using a combination of some things that you know, are or have can help massively to secure your online accounts. However, mishandling multiple methods of authentication can actually make you more vulnerable than if you were just using the one method—you can end up with ‘below-one’-factor authentication, and nobody wants that.

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How to Handle SaaSS: Part 2

In the first part of this series, we talked about the ideas behind Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings and the distinction between such products and what the Free Software Foundation calls Service-as-a-Software-Substitute (SaaSS) products—i.e., software that does not necessarily have to be hosted remotely, but is.

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