How We Can Help! Sifting through all the lingo and jargon of cyber insurance when looking to purchase a cyber insurance policy can be, to say the least, overwhelming. As there are many different types and kinds of coverage, you may not know which policy to select for your particular business. Not only that, there’s …
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You + Us = All Good
How “You + Us = All Good” is Always Valid & True Total Secure Technology can help make cyber insurance #allgood You know you need cyber insurance for your company and that you need to be compliant with the insurance policy. You’re combing through site after site, webpage after webpage, looking for something that makes …
How to Respond to a Cyber Incident in Five Steps
#CyberIncidentResponse101 It’s Friday evening and you’re just about to leave the office to head home for a long three-day weekend. Just as you are about to walk out the front door, you receive a notification on your phone: your email has been hacked and sensitive data has been stolen from your business. What do you …
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Cyber Incident Prevention Best Practices for Small Businesses
#CyberIncidentPrevention #BestPractices No business is “too small” to be the target of cybercrime. Simply because your business may not be raking in billions, or even millions, of dollars doesn’t mean that you’re scot-free from the possibility–indeed, the likelihood–that you will be hit with some kind of cybersecurity issue. Since the pandemic, there has been a …
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Cyber Insurance Myths Debunked
Don’t Fall for These Cyber Insurance Myths As the world increasingly moves online, so do the risks to our businesses. Cyber insurance is one way to help your business recover following a cyberattack. It covers financial losses caused by events such as data breaches, cyber theft, ransomware and the like. Cyber insurance can be beneficial …
Cloud Security Best Practices
Analysis of public cloud accounts across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform reveals a silver lining when it comes to the protection of cloud data. New research shows that in the last year, 70% of organizations that use public cloud services experienced a security incident. These incidents included attacks from ransomware and other …
Confluence Exploits Used to Drop Ransomware on Vulnerable Servers
Automated attacks are now widely exploiting the Atlassian vulnerability. The disclosure of a serious vulnerability in Atlassian’s core intranet product, Confluence, has raised the profile of a number of incidents the SophosLabs and Managed Threat Response (MTR) teams have been tracking since the remote code execution bug was disclosed over Memorial Day weekend in the US. While the number …
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Russian Actors Bypassed 2FA – What Happened And How To Avoid It
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has just put out a bulletin numbered AA22-074A, with the dramatic title Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Gain Network Access by Exploiting Default Multifactor Authentication Protocols and “PrintNightmare” Vulnerability. To sidestep rumours based on the title alone (which some readers might interpret as an attack that is going …
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Sharing Threat Intelligence Gives Defenders An Edge
Cybersecurity is a fiercely competitive industry. It is unique in the information technology space in that we don’t just face competition from other vendors, we also have human adversaries, and they are the real competition. While our products and services must compete in the market against those from other vendors, it must never happen at …
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Cybersecurity Evolved: Increasing IT Efficiency And Protection
Real-world customer experiences of the Sophos cybersecurity system. Imagine cutting the time you spend on day-to-day security admin by over 90% and slashing the number of security incidents that need investigation by 85%. Almost sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Almost. Because these are the real-world benefits that organizations are seeing from running …
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