Incident Response – 5 key stakeholder groups
Incident response is a vital component of every organisations security. It provides the safety net for when the inevitable happens and other controls fail. A good incident response team will…
Incident response is a vital component of every organisations security. It provides the safety net for when the inevitable happens and other controls fail. A good incident response team will…
As you may have noticed, the Halkyn Consulting website has undergone a redesign. This is aimed to improve our responsiveness on multiple platforms, allow us to expand our services without…
Antivirus (AV) has been around for decades now and this is both a good and bad thing. On one hand, AV is so well known most people already understand that…
Supplier security is something most organisations are at least aware of, and lots actually realise they need to do something about it. However, most of the time, "doing something" about…
It seems that every day, new script kiddies discover the likes of the Social Engineering Toolkit or Metasploit and launch a new wave of phishing attacks. Unfortunately it seems that…
FinPhishing - or financial spear phishing - is a form of social engineering attack which is becoming massively profitable for the criminal enterprises involved. Unfortunately for the victims it is…
One sad fact about security is that no matter what controls you put in place, you will suffer breaches and if you are on the internet it is likely to…
As our existing clients may be aware, Halkyn Consulting has entered into a three week period where we maximise our courses and vacation time. During this period we will be…
Reported on the Register today, security researchers have demonstrated how malicious code can be run on graphics processors (GPUs) rather than the central processing unit (CPUs) at the heart of…
For lots of enterprises, security patches are a pain to test, a pain to deploy and frequently frustrating when they require downtime for the inevitable system reboots. However, security patches…
As most internet users know, phishing attacks are very common. The term itself dates back to 1995 (e.g. AOHell) and social engineering (which is basically what phishing is) goes back…
Budgets are integral to every business. The start up's business plan has to include budgets and the multinational will have an entire finance unit geared around making sure that every…
The Information Commissioner's Office announced on 24 Feb 2015 that it had levied a monetary penalty of £175,000 against the holiday insurance company Staysure. The fine came about as a…
The internet has been changing the world for decades now, and nowhere has this been more obvious than the retail sector. Internet access has opened up new markets, invented new…
The ever popular ISO27001 self assessment checklist is now being downloaded at around 1000 times a month. Since we published it in October 2013, there have been over 13000 copies…