A recent survey by Trustify has indicated that 16% of the top 50 law firms in the UK do not have a secure website. Commenting on the survey report, Rachel Moloney from The Lawyer, added that over 10 per cent of the top 200 law firms in the UK may have insecure websites, including four of...
Web applications and web sites deliver accessible and powerful services to consumers and businesses throughout the world. At the heart of modern banking, e-commerce and cloud-based IT provision, they are an attractive and easy target for cyber criminals. In common with all software, web applications contain vulnerabilities which can be exploited by a hacker to...
The first half of 2018 has seen a 94% increase in the number of fileless cyber attacks on global companies who use the endpoint detection and response (EDR) services of SentinelOne. The latest SentinelOne Enterprise Risk Index Report identifies that fileless attacks using PowerShell increased to a record 5.2 attacks per 1000 endpoints in June. Ransomware attacks...
Cyber security risks associated with the use of third-party suppliers by law firms have been highlighted as a major concern by the UK National Cyber Security Centre. The recent NCSC Cyber Threat Assessment for the UK Legal Sector report confirms that supply chain compromises have increased by as much as 200% in 2017. Improved services but increased...
Cyber security is increasingly on the agenda of board meetings for successful investment management and private equity companies in the UK. General Partners must ensure they have effective cyber security measures in place in their own firm. They must also have visibility of the security measures implemented in their portfolio companies. To protect revenue and...
Cyber security has been identified as one of the top ten business issues in the Risk Outlook 2018/19 Report published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). The annual SRA risk report is an accurate ‘barometer’ of the commercial and legal challenges faced by small and large law firms in the UK. Responsible for the regulation of 180,000...
The Cisco Annual Security Report 2018 highlights the huge growth in the complexity and impact of malware used in cyber attacks. It also identifies the common use of encryption to enhance security is being used by malicious actors as a powerful tool to conceal command-and-control (C2) activity. With this reduction in visibility, organisations are increasingly using machine...
The increasing frequency and severity of cyber attack is now on the agenda of the boardroom of every major global organisation. The appointment of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is essential to ensure the alignment of security measures with enterprise and business objectives. What is a CISO? A Chief Information Security Officer directs...
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of the FBI is reporting that email-based social engineering attacks were the most commonly reported cybercrime category in the US in 2017. Business e-mail compromise (fake CEO attack) and fake investment scams targeting companies and not for profit organisations resulted in an estimated loss of over $676 million dollars. ...
Researchers from Check Point Software have announced at DEF CON 26 that fax machines can be easily used by cyber attackers to breach an IT system. In this age of advanced cyber attack methodologies, it is ironic to be reminded of a wide-spread security vulnerability in a digital technology that’s been used in offices since 1980! Yaniv...
General Partners in UK private equity firms are under increasing pressure to mitigate the business risks associated with the exponential growth in cyber crime. They also face the burden of complying to strict data security requirements of European regulations which include the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). The...
As a regular commentator on the cyber security industry, I am frequently surprised at the seeming lack of understanding of what cyber security is and how it can be used by an organisation to truly mitigate the growing risk of cyber attack. This is often demonstrated by the incorrect (and annoying) use of the terms,...
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