Bite Size Security Blog
Keep your business secure with the latest cybersecurity and information security news from NCX Group. Our team of experts provides you with analysis and insights on potential threats to help protect your enterprise.
Get informed and stay safe with NCX Group.
Bite Size Security Blog
Keep your business secure with the latest cybersecurity and information security news from NCX Group. Our team of experts provides you with analysis and insights on potential threats to help protect your enterprise.
Get informed and stay safe with NCX Group.
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Cyber resilience – Understanding supply chain cyber attacks
The methods of attack by hackers keep expanding, supply chain cyber attacks being one of the most recent that are presenting a major threat to businesses. So, what are supply chain attacks and how can businesses secure against them? Let’s start with what and go from there.
The impact of ransomware on cyber insurance
A closer look at the impact of ransomware on cyber insurance shows how rates and requirements are changing due to the increase in these types of attacks, as well as why being cyber ready isn’t about having cyber insurance.
Cyber ready – Why security assessments are key
A security assessment is often a difficult task to conduct. The workforce needs to be skilled and trained on the tools, techniques, and procedures of the organization’s risk management strategy.
Cyber ready – Keep your company safe from cyber threats
The cyber world is an ever-changing landscape. It’s a place where people are constantly trying to get their hands on your data, and businesses need to be prepared for the onslaught of attacks that come with it.
Protect against phishing attacks involving file sharing programs
Phishing attacks are an all-too-common occurrence in today’s business world. Hackers use phishing scams to trick employees into giving up company information, passwords and other sensitive data. The phishers often send out emails that appear as if they come from the CEO or another high-level exec…
3 effective ways to improve cloud security with a remote workforce
Cloud security is an increasingly top priority for companies and for the right reasons. Cyber threats have more than doubled with a remote workforce environment, working from home gives hackers easy access depending on network, VPN and the lack of a security executive nearby to guide you…
Make your remote workforce safer with cyber awareness training and micro-learning
It seems that every day, our work environment continues to get more dependent on technology. For example, just take a look at your office computer screen and notice all the apps you need to run your job from one central location. As more employees find themselves working remotely, and with such easy access to information utilizing the Internet from home, cyberattacks have become a major concern.
The Executive Order on improving cybersecurity
The Executive Order (EO) on improving the nation’s cybersecurity to support public and private efforts, will help identify, deter, protect against, detect, and respond to persistent and increasingly sophisticated malicious cyber campaigns. What has influenced some of the specific measures used in the Executive Order are the recent cyber espionage campaigns.
Cyber Resilience: How to plan for the unknown
Cyber resilience gets businesses to prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber threats. For it to work you want your IT and security teams to have actionable data on everything in the network, not just the devices and applications that employees use every day. To set this up you need to plan up-front and have model scenarios that can tell you how your data would be accessed.
How to improve cloud security and third-party risk management
The Equifax data breach of 143 million US consumers is a clear example that cybersecurity threats are real, and that the stakes for businesses have never been higher. When risks don’t get addressed immediately, this makes it even more likely to become another Equifax breach, or think of the SolarWinds incident. All cyber-attacks are damaging to people and the business that gets hit.
A simple three step guide to creating an incident response plan
When businesses neglect to create an incident response plan and they are forced into action due to a security incident, they find themselves inadequately prepared and taking the wrong steps. In this blog post we’ll discuss three simple steps you can take to build an incident response plan that will help your company be prepared for any security incident that may happen.
Phishing Exercises – Preventing businesses from falling for deceptive messages
Learn how to protect your employees and business against phishing, deceptive messages, and other malicious attacks. NCX Group will help you identify the right training exercises and security awareness programs that will mitigate the risk of your company being compromised by cyber criminals.
3 tips on how to better handle remote working cybersecurity risks
With the increase in remote working, organizations need to be better prepared for cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities. This means many things, but above all, when focusing on the remote workforce, it means training employees, analyzing software, and ensuring antivirus solutions are deployed on all devices.
Four questions to determine your partner’s cyber resilience
Determine your partner’s cyber resilience with these four questions and address cyber risks or compliance regulation needs immediately.
Best cybersecurity practices for your remote workforce
Cybersecurity real talk: You train, you give rules, and you understand the habits so that you can break the bad habits in time as you integrate and substitute with cybersecurity culture practices that you make a constant through business day-to-day operational habits. A simple break-down with best cybersecurity practices in mind are the following steps.
Keep an eye out for this phishing campaign
There are always a variety of phishing campaigns going around. This makes it hard to keep track of all of them. Nonetheless, it is important to stay up to date the best you can…
Network security with our IPK services
The value of network security is something every CEO and CIO, or other business executive, is aware of (or should be, one should hope). In one way or another, the executives are always looking to be effective in what they set up. The thing is, to be effective with cybersecurity overall, there is a need to take a holistic approach and to have the knowledge on what’s important, what’s not, what’s smoke in your eyes, and so on.
Take your cybersecurity up a notch to succeed in a changing world
Now that we know the “new norm” (as some have named it) is pretty much here to stay, it’s time to take cybersecurity up a notch with what’s become an integral part of this changing world: remote work and operations…
3 tips to harmonize your cybersecurity 2021 budget with business
If you are looking for effective ways to harmonize your cybersecurity 2021 budget with business, here are some helpful tips to guide you.
Keep up cybersecurity for last minute holiday shopping
A cybersecurity checklist to protect your business from two top online holiday shopping threats…
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