Cyber Security News and Advice
Making sense of Cyber Security for business owners
Cyber Criminals Are Constantly Adapting ... Are you?
Cyber criminals quickly react to changes in situation. How can you be sure that your business is protected, especially when the risks you’re facing could change suddenly due to a change in how the cyber criminals are operating?
What is a Cyber Advisor?
We are Cyber Advisors - helping small-medium sized firms improve their cyber security.
Responding to a Cyber Incident
Only 21% of businesses have a formal incident response plan for how to act when a cyber incident does occur. It’s all well and good to say you will take action following a cyber incident, but what actions will you take?
We’re recruiting
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How to secure your charity
How to secure your charity and pick the right level of cyber security based on your size and the types of risk unique to your charity’s work
Solving the Cyber Skills Gap
Half of all UK organisations lack the basic cyber security skills to protect themselves according to a new government survey.
How to prove to your customers that you can be trusted
How can you prove to your potential clients that you can be trusted with their most previous commodities - their data and their reputation?
How to build a secure business
Business and start-up owners often ask me what are the right tools and systems to use to build a secure business - this is what I tell them.
Certification Body status
We’re excited to share that we have achieved Cyber Essentials and Cyber Assurance Certification Body status - which means we can help clients to gain and retain these valuable certifications. We’re Cornwall’s only Certification Body!
What is Endpoint Protection?
An Endpoint is any device that is connected to a network. This can include desktop computer, laptops, and mobile devices like phones and tablets. Endpoint Protection systems, also called Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions, take a holistic approach to your cyber security, offering security to the whole network and all connected endpoints.
What is a Security Operations Centre (SOC)?
A Security Operations Centre (SOC) uses a combination of people and technology to proactively manage the cyber security of your business on a day-to-day basis.
What is SIEM?
SIEM stands for Security Information and Event Management, and a SIEM system does exactly what you’d expect based on that name – it is software that manages security events and other important pieces of security information across the network it is installed on.
LastPass Customer Vault Data Stolen – How to Recover from this Attack
Password manager company LastPass have confirmed that customer vault data was stolen in a recent cyber attack. Hackers targeted LastPass’s cloud storage backups at the end of November 2022, where they were able to obtain personal customer information including encrypted passwords.
Fake Google Ads Used to Spread Malware
Google Ads are a good source of advertising in order to increase the number of visitors to your website. However, cyber criminals are now abusing this system to create copies of legitimate websites that when visited install malware onto your computer.
How To Protect Your Business from Holiday Cyber Attacks
The holiday season brings more users to many websites, for shopping, media streaming, and online gaming. Cyber criminals can use this increase in website traffic to carry out targeted attacks on these websites, causing the site to run slowly, or crash completely. This sort of attack is called a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
Security Bug in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge
New security updates for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have been released as an emergency fix for a security bug that is present in both web browsers.
What is Risk Management in Cyber Security?
In cyber security, we discuss risk and risk management on a frequent basis. Read on to understand what risk is, and the simple things you can do to manage risk within your business.
Phishing Scams: The Evolving Cyber Threat
Phishing is a term used to describe cyber crime that targets victims via email, telephone, or text message. We hear it most in reference to malicious emails, where criminals are disguising themselves as legitimate companies to trick their victims into clicking on links in the email or open documents attached to the email.
What is Ransomware? And How to Protect Your Data
Ransomware is the biggest cyber threat facing most business owners in the UK today. A 2022 report states that 40% of cyber-attacks experienced by companies were ransomware attacks. Read on to understand what it is, and the surprisingly simple things you can do to protect your business from the risks of ransomware.