We are proud to announce that our penetration testing services are officially CHECK accredited. This prestigious certification, awarded by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), recognises us as a Certified CHECK Provider. It means we’re trusted by the UK Government to deliver rigorous, high-quality penetration testing. Achieving CHECK accreditation is significant and a testament to […]
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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. From joining The Citation Group, we felt it was necessary to align ourselves with our sister companies – to become a unified entity offering business services
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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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In our ever-evolving digital world, businesses are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. In fact, 40% of UK businesses will experience an attack or breach this year, with £3.5m being the average cost of a breach in 2021. Therefore, it is imperative for your business to regularly test its security level and detect any vulnerabilities
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Nine cyber attacks in the last three years affecting the UK transport sector have been missed by the UK’s mandatory reporting laws. These attacks were only disclosed to the Government for Transport on a voluntary basis. This is because the mandatory thresholds for reporting cyber incidents across the energy, transport, health, water and digital infrastructure
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The IT management software vendor, Kaseya, recently suffered a large-scale REvil ransomware attack – REvil is the same group supposedly responsible for attacking meat processing giant JBS at the end of May. The attackers were reported to have compromised Kaseya’s remote monitoring system, VSA, resulting in its customers temporarily shutting down their on-premises servers. According
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Given the frequency of large-scale ransomware attacks in recent months, it’s no surprise that ransomware is the cyber threat that’s on everyone’s minds right now. Today, ransomware presents a multi-billion pound attack vector for cyber criminals. Statistics revealed there were 304 million ransomware attacks in 2020 – 62% up on the total number of ransomware
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JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company, which supplies beef production in the US, Australia and Canada, is the latest major company to be hit by a ransomware attack by cyber criminals. The attack forced operations to grind to a halt, impacting thousands of workers and disrupting the meat supply chain. Ransomware, which locks down
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With cyber security becoming a more prominent need in the Education sector, it’s time to face the threats. Because let’s face it, cyber criminals know the Education sector isn’t as well funded for security. In every Education institute, cyber security needs to become relevant in all areas, not just IT. Administrators, educators and assistants need
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Partners& is a challenger brand within the insurance and risk-management sector; as a values-driven business, and with over 35 years of industry experience, they are on a mission to be the finest risk advisory in the UK.
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Cyber criminals are increasingly using complex and sophisticated attack methods to target businesses of all sizes and their leaders.
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Phishing isn’t a new tactic used by cyber criminals, in fact, phishing has been common since the 90’s. But, as technologies advance, so do the ways in which cyber criminals try and deceive you into providing personal information and financial details. Not only could a phishing attempt try and steal your personal data and financials,
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Surely, the only way to have effective cyber security in place is to have an in-house IT team, that will cost your business tens of thousands of pounds a year? And surely, you’re only ever under any kind of real threat if you’re a huge, world-wide corporation? Well, the answer to that is no. You don’t
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November is one of the best months of the year; not only do we have bonfire night, Christmas is right around the corner but we also get Black Friday – a time were retailers come together to provide their biggest sales of the year! Everyone loves a bargain, and it’s easy to start shopping around
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Around 45% of employees don’t receive any cyber security awareness training, despite 80% of cyber breaches are a result from staff error! Many believe that because they are not an ethical hacker or part of the IT department, then they have no role in maintaining cyber security in both the work environment and in their personal
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