Sophos Rapid Response provides lightning-fast expert cyber incident response. Dealing with a major cyber attack is a specialist skill and, fortunately, not something that most IT teams need to address on a day-to-day basis. If the worst does happen, it’s a good idea to bring in specialist cyber incident responders to help you neutralize and …
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Prevent, detect, respond: The three-legged stool to protecting your organization effectively. Optimizing prevention, minimizing time to detect and respond is the Sophos approach to endpoint security. Ultimately it enables organizations to stop more threats, faster, reducing the impact of cyber threats on your organization. Previously we looked at how Sophos optimizes prevention by identifying and eliminating threats …
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It seems odd to imagine that one piece of software, which doesn’t even require a network connection, can improve the safety of your online life. But password managers certainly appear to fall into that category, though you do need be extra diligent in how you secure them! While performing research on modern Wi-Fi security, I was …
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Let’s review Sophos’ annual study of real-world ransomware experiences and discuss what you can learn from it. Introduction Sophos has released its study of the real-world ransomware experiences of IT professionalsworking at the frontline has revealed an ever more challenging attack environmenttogether with the growing financial and operational burden ransomware placeson its victims. It also …
Now, more than ever, many of us need the flexibility to access data, files, and private applications whenever and wherever we’re able to get work done. Cloud providers like Microsoft Azure give you the flexibility to make your move to the cloud as temporary or permanent as you need. And while this is the right …
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Avaddon ransomware is a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) that combines encryption with data theft and extortion. Avaddon has been around since 2019 but has become more prominent and aggressive since June 2020. “Affiliates” or customers of the service have been observed deploying Avaddon to a wide range of targets in multiple countries, often through malicious spam and …
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Advanced, targeted phishing scams that impersonate well-known brands or VIPs within an organization are a big problem for security teams to deal with. Advanced, targeted phishing scams that impersonate well-known brands or VIPs within an organization are a big problem for security teams to deal to deal with. This type of phishing scam is referred …
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Businesses large and small are under threat from increasingly aggressive and brutal ransomware attacks. Loss of access to critical files, followed by a demand for payment, can cause massive disruption to an organization’s productivity. But what does a typical attack look like? What security solutions should be in place to give the best possible defense? …
In sports, there is a saying that if the opponent cannot score, they cannot win. A similar sentiment works for cybersecurity: If the attacker cannot penetrate your organization, they cannot compromise it. Taking that a step further, the most effective way to eliminate the possibility of a breach escalating into a business-threatening attack is to …
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Data hygiene, from a hybrid workforce perspective, aims at the structuring of information and the elimination of dirty data from your network. It involves the implementation of sound policies to check records for accuracy and the removal of errors. Data hygiene is vital for businesses because if you base your decisions on dirty data, it …
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