Looking back to 2019, I’m sure some of us can remember the leaked memos from Britain’s ambassador to the USA. This diplomatic incident publicly highlighted a “new” and aggressive kind of cyber attack — one that allowed access to sensitive, historical and encrypted information.
As device management agents are trusted sources, endpoints implicitly trust them and carry out any command they are requested to execute!
You may have noticed that the Microsoft Gold Partner status is boasted by companies that have worked hard enough to earn this certification. But what
Isn’t it surprising that given the existence of a universally adopted security specification, such a vulnerability makes its way through many disk varieties from different vendors? Here at Optimising IT, we break down the security issues related to hard drive encryption.
We’ve produced our top 5 easy cyber-security fixes, including installing internet facing firewalls, avoiding free anti-virus, locking down administration account usage, training end users to avoid cyber vulnerabilities and updating software and operating systems.
Find out more about ISO 27001 and how it protects the information assets of organisations with Optimising IT.
Optimising IT has carried out over 30 Information Security Reviews for suppliers to our customers this year. As a result, we have made previously unknown and unimagined risks visible to our customers. Our comprehensive Information Security Review highlights the risk areas and offers advice on reducing such risk, giving it real value.
Cyber Essentials should be your minimum threshold for any supplier. Any supplier handling or processing card payments on your behalf should implement the appropriate level of PCI DSS. Our Cyber-security team is helping an increasing number of organisations, by providing independent supplier security reviews and ongoing supplier management using our proven framework.
Information security standards are good news for many reasons, not least of which I believe is their primary purpose – they offer assurance. The reason they offer assurance is that they have been drafted, reviewed and implemented by very competent, experienced and certified individuals and are recognised in the industry and public sector.
In this article, we will look at how you can benefit from this remote-working shift. We will cover how to identify who in your team can carry out remote work, which tasks can be completed remotely, how to organise it all, and how technology can help you get the best results.
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