Are we good? This question should give a security team pause. Where do they begin to explain the complexities and nuances of the risks posed by cyber threats? What does “good” mean to an analyst, SOC manager, or CISO? The executive often only wants a yes or no. She may not have the time to pick apart anything more complicated.

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A lot of enterprise networks are under attack or they already have been attacked by the adversaries. Red teamers or attackers tend to compromise the environments with new ways and rely on legitimate tools with sophisticated techniques based on their skill levels. On the other hand, the job of the blue teamers becomes more challenging and difficult as the attacker only needs to be successful once to gain access. (more…)

Many will undoubtedly remember the ransomware pandemics unleashed by the state-sponsored hacking groups Lazarus and Sandworm in 2017. their acts of sabotage brought the world to its knees and caused billions of dollars in damage. The following year was comparatively less eventful, but little did everyone know that other threat actors were gathering their strength and priming for attack. it was only after they emerged in full force in 2019 that we realized we were in for a different kind of adversary. (more…)

Deep learning is a special machine learning approach that facilitates the extraction of features of a high level of abstraction from low-level data. Deep learning has proven successful in computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing and other tasks. It works best when you want the machine to infer high-level meaning from low-level data. For image recognition challenges, like ImageNet, deep learning-based approaches already surpass humans.

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The Cyber Security Breaches Survey is an official statistic. Since 2016, it has measured how UK organisations approach cyber security, and the impact of breaches and attacks. This infographic shows the key findings for UK businesses.
Despite COVID-19, cyber security remains a priority among management boards.77% of businesses say that cyber security is a high priority for their directors or senior managers (vs. 69% in 2016).

Phishing is the most commonly identified cyber attack. Among the 39% identifying any breaches or attacks, 83% had phishing attacks, 27% were impersonated and 13% had malware (including ransomware).

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