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7 Different Hacker Examples: Motives, Aims, and What That Means For Your Business
For the safety of your organisation it’s essential to understand the attributes of the 7 different hacker examples. Some hackers will protect you, while others will use viruses and malware with malicious intent, to steal your data, or for financial gain. These hackers typically find loopholes and vulnerabilities within your network before they strike, and…
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What Is A Cyber Security Strategy and How Can I Develop My Own?
Creating and implementing a cyber security strategy takes careful consideration, but could be the difference between successfully fending off cyber threat actors, and losing important company data. Failing to align your company goals, cyber security architecture, and your strategy could result in gaps in your network, and therefore allow a way for attackers to penetrate…
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What Is a White Hat Hacker and What Do They Do?
‘What is a white hat hacker’ is a confusing question to someone not up to date with their cybersecurity terminology. The same might apply if we were to ask you how extensive your knowledge is of black hat and gray hat hackers (the other two members of this unique trio). While important, our main focus…
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Cybersecurity for Beginners: The Complete Guide
Welcome to your complete guide to cybersecurity for beginners! Cybersecurity can seem like a daunting subject, with lots of long, technical words being thrown about which no one really understands. Yet, understanding cybersecurity and its importance in our daily lives, is absolutely critical. Without knowing what it is and what’s involved in the process, we’re…
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15 Cyber Security Events You Need to Attend
Attending cyber security events is essential in order to stay ahead of cyber attackers, and keep your security architecture up to date. Cyber security events are important as they can help you to stay educated on attacks that are becoming more sophisticated and engineered, and constantly on the rise. Therefore these events often offer similar…
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Red, Blue and Purple: Purple Teaming Explained
Ever heard the terms ‘blue teaming’, ‘red teaming’, and ‘purple teaming’ but never really understood what they all meant? Or more importantly, what was the difference between them all? Well then this is the blog for you! In order to protect your important data from cyber criminals, you need to put your security system to…
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What Is Vishing and the Ways to Prevent It
In order to keep your personal and company data secure, it is important to be aware of cyber threats such as Vishing. Much like Phishing, this scam involves tricking potential victims into disclosing information via a variety of methods over the phone. This means Vishing is easily conducted and hidden among the vast amount of…
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The Most Common Network Vulnerabilities You’ll Find
You don’t need to be an expert in cyber security to have a basic understanding of what network vulnerabilities are and how damaging they can be to any organization. This is something we tell the majority of our clients to help remove the stigma that is commonly associated with this form of cyber attack. You…
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Cyber Security Analytics: What You Should Be Tracking
In order to stay one step ahead of cyber criminals and to mitigate threats, you should be tracking metrics and keeping on top of your cyber security analytics. It is no longer enough to rely on software-based protection tools and methods, as they can’t always keep up with fast moving threats. Cyber security analytics are…