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Security Vulnerability Assessment – Key Concepts for a Solid Security Plan

Advice, Phishing, SMEs / 8 March 2022

Many organisations are currently in the process of updating their security measures to better protect against cyber threats. One way to do this is through a vulnerability assessment, which is an important step in the organisation’s risk management strategy. If you don’t know about the probability of being infected by one of these vulnerabilities, analysis […]

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The Human Risks to Your Business

Advice, Phishing, SMEs, Uncategorised / 8 March 2022

Human actions can cause significant cyber risks in your business – in fact, 80% of cyber breaches are a result of human error. This can be due to a lack of awareness with cyber security best practises, unnecessary access to company information and data, or in worst cases, malicious intent. Being able to identify the

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What is Penetration Testing? – Back to Basics

Advice, Phishing, SMEs / 17 February 2022

So what is penetration testing? Firstly, some background as to why it’s needed in the first place. Over the past 12 months, the global average cost of a data breach has increased by nearly 10% – the largest single year increase in the last seven years. Due to the changes in working behaviours, businesses have

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4 Top Tips to Defend Against Ransomware Attacks

Advice, News, News/Press, SMEs / 28 July 2021

Professional hacker with laptop sitting at table, closeup

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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SMBs: Understanding Your Threat Landscape

Advice, News/Press, SMEs, Threat Intelligence, Threat Intelligence Service / 13 July 2021

Small Business. Soft Target Small businesses are under attack. The UK Government’s Breaches Survey of January 2021 revealed that 38% of micro and smaller businesses had identified a breach or attack within the previous 12 months. When Covid-19 hit last year, organisations of every shape and scale were thrown into chaos. Cyber criminals were quick

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Ransomware – Past, Present and Future

Advice, Citation Cyber Services, News/Press, SMEs / 14 May 2021

Ransomware. We have all heard about it, seen it on the news and have heard that this is something that can massively impact our devices and organisation, but what exactly is ransomware? When and how did it begin? What can we do to mitigate our risk of falling victim to a ransomware attack? To answer

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FAQ’s in Cyber Security

Advice, Financial, SMEs, Wealth Management / 23 January 2020

We have put together some Frequently Asked Questions to help you understand what Cyber security is and just how important it is to be aware of the dangers in the cyber world. What is Cyber security? Cyber security consists of technologies, processes and controls which have been designed to protect businesses and their systems, networks,

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SMEs: Easy Pickings and Collateral Damage

Advice, SMEs / 2 March 2019

If you work within, or even run your own, SME, it may be tempting to consider yourself protected from the risk of cyber attack by your size. If you only have a handful of customers, or turnover that measures in the hundreds of thousands rather than the millions, you may believe that attackers will simply pass you over in favour of larger, potentially more lucrative targets. This can leave you vulnerable for a couple of reasons, which we’ll talk about here.

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