Malware attacks are down. You need to look at your AV/ Endpoint protection software
Starting the year on a high (low actually) Ransomware dipped just under 10% over the last 12 months and overall malware attacks dropped by 6% to 9.9 billion. Fileless Malware volume is down 5-fold on its highest point last year with...
Weekly attacks, hacks and breaches – 13/12/2019
1&1 hit with £8,000,000 fine & Gambling definitely doesn’t pay for this chap. But first Santa is real?! ‘Tis the season for stuffing. Not the edible kind but the password kind. Amazon-owned Ring – a leading manufacturer of recording and...
Setting up device trust to secure the workforce
Endpoint Protection Challenges With an estimated 70% of breaches on endpoints (laptops, workstations, servers, and mobile devices), businesses need to gain insight into the devices connected to both network and cloud applications. Businesses need to be able to trust the...
Cloud Security Consolidation with Cisco Umbrella
Over the past 12 months, Cisco has embarked on a journey to take Umbrella to a new level. DNS has always been at the heart of everything – from the recursive DNS service (OpenDNS) in 2006 to its entry into...
Cisco and the all-new Catalyst 1000 Switch Series
Catalysts Cisco quality for small deployments As your business grows, your network also needs to grow and not to get in the way. That’s why having a network you can rely on is important. This is where the Cisco Catalyst...
Media company achieves resilient data centre architecture, with zero-downtime
Customer London Media Company – 3000 Employees. Brief Challenges Solution Benefits Requirements The customer, a big player in the media industry were looking to re-locate to a new data centre co-location space. The decision to move posed many challenges, the...
Weekly attacks, hacks and breaches – 15/11/2019
Check Point’s ZoneAlarm suffers alarming breach and some very strange goings-on in a school in Manchester. But first The Labour Party is under a massive DDOS attack. Labour is under attack. Starting out on Monday the 11th November Labour has been...
Engineering firm uses Cisco ISE to meet regulatory compliance & secure access
Customer London Engineering Company – 400 Employees. Objective One of the mandatory regulatory controls is the ability to provide evidence that an endpoint device configurations comply with certain screensaver, firewall, disk encryption, and security patch settings also an ability to...
Accountancy Firm modernises with Cisco Meraki
Customer London Accountancy and Finance organisation – Breakthrough Finance Limited – 10 Employees Objective To modernise and future proof the office network at the HQ, ensuring that internal users have both secure wired and wireless connectivity when connecting to external...
Manufacturer takes a layered approach to their security
Customer London Manufacturing Company – 30 Employees. Objective A complete overhaul of the existing network architecture along with addressing the security posture for both internal and external services. From endpoint to infrastructure, e-mail, and internet. Solutions The Challenges for Small...