Eoin & The Security

Cyber Security: Keeping Pace with Change. Getting breached can really ruin your day. Actually it normally happens on a friday evening as you are about chill for the weekend. The cause of must breaches is not rocket science, its more to do with the poor approach we have accepted because we underestimate the threat actor.  - An attacker does not scan your website/network once a quarter with a commercial or open source scanner or perform an annual penetration test against your systems to see if there is any low hanging fruit, so how do we expect to defend against such an advisory using that approach? Systems change now more frequently than ever due to the ease of cloud deployments and the speed of software deployments due to iterative development techniques. The rate of change increase results in exposures quickly manifesting and the organisation not even being aware of the exposure in the first place. Many organisations dont know what they have exposed on the public Internet. We ne...

  Five Ways You Can Make Your Vulnerability Management (VM) Program Smart Now So you are convinced that your need to adopt a “Smart” Vulnerability Management (VM) approach but you are not quite sure how to get started or even what to shoot for. Here are Five Very Important Steps you need to take to bring on the “Smart”.   Number 1 - Understand Business Goals and Then Automate Ranked Alerts Yes, take a step back and think holistically how your business runs and what business processes are most critical to achieving your enterprise goals. Talk to your business line leaders and operational staff. Hit the whiteboard and talk through “what if” scenarios. Rank all of your business concerns as it pertains to any potential exposures to your attack surface. Then take on a Smart VM Platform that enables you to rank and automate each alert type across each IT layer so you receive automated business-ranked alerts. This is all done in the set-up stage. This is necessary. This is no...