Christmas – Seasonal Shutdown
Merry Christmas Halkyn Consulting will enter its Christmas shut down period on Friday 22 Dec. We remain closed to new business until Tuesday, 2 Jan 2018. As always, existing customers…
Checklists support your memory.
Checklist or your memory, is one better?
No matter how much expert knowledge you have, how good you think your memory is, using a checklist is simply good security practice.
Threat Hunting - Do it right
Threat Hunting – essential for every business
Lots of articles, blog posts and webcasts talk about threat hunting. Despite this few, if any, organisations do it. This is a mistake. Security hit the headlines again recently, when…
UOC Cyber Security Conference 2017
UOC – Cybersecurity Conference 2017
Cybersecurity is big news with governments and businesses suffering at the hands of cyber attacks. As a result of this, the University of Chester (UoC) STEMs society is hosting a Cybersecurity…
Example Security Dashboards
Dashboards vs Security – are they really helping?
Metrics, Dashboards and Security Like them or not, metrics are a fundamental part of every organisation. Security doesn't get to a free pass. It is a rare CISO who doesn't demand…
Hacked? Time for incident response...
Security Incident Response Really Does Matter
Incident response is one of those things you really hope you'll never have to use, but know you will. Or at least you should know! Even with the best security, there…
Cyber Security Cluster - April 2016 meeting
North Wales Cyber Security Cluster – April 2016 Meeting
The North Wales Cyber Security Cluster is meeting on 21 April at Solvings Ltd, in Mold, Flintshire. Solvings provide a great location and the cluster is a wonderful opportunity to learn…
Ransomware bites hard but good security controls are effective
Ransomware: Don’t panic – deal with it
Since Cryptolocker appeared in late 2013, it seems hardly a day can go by without some ransomware attack hitting the news. The variations all have entertaining names like Teslacrypt, Locky,…
Lincolnshire County Council - Hit by ransomware Jan 2016
Cyber Essentials – Would it have saved Lincolnshire County Council?
Cyber Essentials is a UK Government driven scheme which is designed to help businesses of all size reduce the risk and impact from malware attacks. It is mandatory for those…
Infosec - its a team sport
3 essential elements of any Infosec function
As the news often shows, Information Security (infosec) is a big part of any organisation. From the small business with just a couple of computers to the global enterprise, infosec…
Incident Response - Your team cant function in a vacuum.
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…
The new Halkyn Consulting Security Services website
Halkyn Consulting – Site Redesign / Cyber Security Cluster
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…
AV is not dead, just understand what it can and cant do.
AV is not dead – it just has limits
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 problems result in this notice from the CEO of T-Mobile
Supplier Security – A lesson for T-Mobile
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…
FedEx Delivery Phishing Email
Phishing and Malware – FedEx missed delivery
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…