Data encryption was touted as a defense against attempts to steal data, and companies implemented encryption to keep their data safe. It did not take long for the bad guys to figure out a way to turn those defenses around: Encrypt the data and hold the key for ransom.
Another M365 email outage... seriously just Google it... there are even multiple websites that monitor and tell you there is an outage but there is nothing you can do about it… or is there? Whether it is email, Azure, Teams or? What can you do? Better question yet… now, what are your employees doing while they wait?
Whether you are vulnerability scanning to meet compliance requirements or doing it as part of good security practices, there is a universal need. At the time of this article, there are essentially three equally capable and qualified scanning solutions. They include products from Tenable, Rapid7 and Qualys. My point is that each of these scanning solutions, if configured correctly, should produce accurate and similar results.
One of the things I have noticed while working at SynerComm is that while most companies have employees on staff who possess the necessary technical knowledge to complete their projects, many organizations lack the logistics knowledge that large‐scale deployments require.
Our team begins every project by listening to our customers carefully and hearing their asks. This listen‐first approach allows us to work with purpose, seeking and confirming our understanding of our customer's challenges by bringing questions and ideas to the table. Our customer interactions are guided by and benefit from the depth and breadth of our knowledge in both the IT infrastructure and logistics spheres.
The approach of a “lessons learned” exercise is a method of continuous improvement that is based on a singular event (COVID-19) or similarly related events.
Having been part of the penetration testing industry for over 15 years, I’ve been challenged by many clients with this very question. The fact is that they are right, a penetration test is a point-in-time assessment and new vulnerabilities are discovered every day. We hope that our patch and vulnerability management processes along with our defensive controls keep our systems secure.
Before the current reality of rapidly implementing solutions that support “social distancing” and “self-isolation,” IT organizations were overloaded; do we stand a chance today? Failure is not an option, and we can all use some help now and then; many organizations need help right now! SynerComm has a long history of partnering with customers to overcome these challenges.
As the business world reacts to the current health crisis, companies are offering remote access to any role that can work from home. Taking a cue from the changing environment, cyber-criminals are already taking advantage. Here are some recommendations on continuing to practice good information security hygiene as more of the access moves outside of the physical office.
We all know the stats of the Coronavirus, although they are changing by the minute. We know what to do personally and for our families but what about for our Company? Many customers do have Business Continuity Plans or Enterprise Risk management plans, but do they include plans for a Pandemic such as this?
