INSIDER THREATS: “Enemies within” – knowingly or unknowingly – are closely associated with exploitation of vulnerabilities or threats inside an organization. Generally, there are intentional insider threat actors and unintentional insider threat actors. However, both contribute to the ever evolving risks affecting all critical infrastructure in the public and private sectors. Insider threats actors can […]
Malware Types and Signs Malware represent malicious programs that introduce abnormal behaviour in mobile or stationed computing devices. These bad software are categorised according to their intent or severity of service denial. Their presence can cause computing devices to freeze or crash often, files hijacking, mutation or deletion, email sending without users knowledge, unexplainable network […]
Privacy Settings: Every individual desire is to keep personal information within his or her chosen boundary or social circle. However, with the increasing dependence on the contemporary technology – Internet, one will wonder if such is still achievable. Reason being that those things we do not want to share outside our circle somehow sometimes escape […]
Cyber-Defense Protection of your information including your Personal data is entirely your responsibility. Technology is only a small part of Cyber Defense, you are the most important factor in attracting unnecessary breaches by exposing unsolicited personal information on the internet. – protect yourself. In the physical world we are conscious about protecting ourselves and our […]
CCTV Monitoring CCTV stands for close circuit television. With respect to current trend of information and security challenges, it is a vital system to inculcate in your facilities to enable you deter miscreants and also monitor what might be going on when you are not physically present at a location being covered. It comes in […]
Fake / Rogue Devices Rogue devices are fake or “look-alike” network names that can be planted by bad guys with intention of diverting the network traffics to their own controlled gadgets. They mimic your network access points using the same credentials and waits for you to connect to it as if it is the familiar […]
PHISHING This is most common way to scam innocent, unsuspecting victims by using social engineering tactics. In this ploy, fraudsters can impersonate legitimate company or friend to steal people’s personal data including login credentials. e.g Bogus emails use threats and a sense of urgency to scare users into doing what the attackers want. Phishing attacks […]
Malware can be easily created and delivered as a payload through various means to the targeted victims. Delivery means includes compromised flash drives, untrusted programs /applications and more easily through web browsers code injection. Malware delivered through a compromised website on chrome browsers can bypass User Account Controls to infect systems and steal sensitive data, […]
NETWORK SEGREGATION This is a valuable aspect of network security architecture. As the name implies, it is the principle of configuring networks in separate chunks where few machines / clients are connected on the same broadcast domain, while still accessing the same general network resources. One main method of achieving this is implementation of (Virtual […]
Cybersecurity is intrinsically challenging — In modern business and social environment, what appears to be a well-designed network strategy can be undone by a single weak point created by either device malfunctioning or compromised human persuasion. One of the best ways for an organization to reduce cyber risk is to build a sound cybersecurity culture. This requires […]