By Gerry Grant, Chief Security Officer Every city has certain areas that you wouldn’t be happy walking around in the middle of the night on your own. The internet is similar. We often hear about a dark, dangerous, lawless place called the ‘Dark Web’, but what or where exactly is Read more
By Steve Suttar, Senior Systems Engineer. Sunday 20th of October (Day Before Dattocon): With trepidation and excitement, we began our journey to Dattocon Paris. I have visited Paris many times, however my colleague Sameer had not and was excited to experience a new city and culture firsthand. It’s safe to Read more
By Gerry Grant, Chief Security Officer. One area of cyber security that is often overlooked is the management of new staff and those leaving a company. But it is vital that the on-boarding and off-boarding of employees is handled correctly and not just from a Human Resources point of view. Read more
By Gerry Grant, Chief Security Officer. Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus, GDPR, ISO 27001, the list of different ways in which an organisation can show that they are taking cyber security seriously is almost endless. However, it’s important to recognise that compliance with a standard does NOT guarantee that the Read more
By Gerry Grant, Chief Security Officer. If you’re feeling under pressure to address a growing number of cyber security threats on a budget that hasn’t grown exponentially with these risks, then you’re not alone. Increasingly, senior management and the board are asking questions about cyber security and looking for reassurance Read more
By Stacey Smith, Service Delivery Manager. Tell you what, I for one am grateful that there is no wrong path! Looking back, it may have felt that I’d wandered off the beaten track on a number of occasions, but without that detour I would not currently be sitting where I Read more
By Gerry Grant, Chief Security Officer. Unbelievably, it is now late June and we are almost halfway through 2019. Normally at the start of a year we see lots of ‘predictions’ around what will happen in the world, including the types of cyber threats that may emerge. Instead of waiting Read more
Our Chief Security Officer, Gerry Grant presented at Scotland’s Cyber Summit 2019. For those who couldn’t make it to the Aberdeen event, take a look at Gerry’s presentation where he lifts the lid on cyber security through the eyes of an ethical hacker. Scot-Secure 2019 presentation: The threat evolution – Read more
Our Chief Security Officer, Gerry Grant presented at Scot-Secure 2019, the 5th annual cyber security for business conference. For those who couldn’t make it to Edinburgh, we’d like to share Gerry’s thoughts on the threat evolution: from dodgy discs to crypto mining. Scotland’s Cyber Summit 2019: Lifting the lid on Read more