Cyber Security
What is Cyber Security and its Different Types?
Cyber threats are only increasing, but so many individuals and businesses lack the knowledge and resources to protect themselves. Unfortunately, this can lead to devastating
Cyber threats are only increasing, but so many individuals and businesses lack the knowledge and resources to protect themselves. Unfortunately, this can lead to devastating
From the way we educate our children to how we socialise with the people around us, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on
The COVID-19 pandemic represents an inflexion point for remote work. According to data from Statista, around 4.6 million people in the UK were working
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!
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.
Our IT consultancy experts are ready and waiting to help you get the very best out of your technology and business. Get in touch today and experience the Optimising IT difference.
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