Buying a penetration test is easier when you know what the week actually involves. Here is the shape of a real engagement, from the paperwork to the retest.
Email is still the front door to your business. Here is how to tell whether the service guarding it is actually doing the job.
Your security program stops at your firewall. Your risk does not.
If your endpoint protection still works by recognizing known malware files, it is already a step behind the attackers who stopped using malware files.
Attackers are turning trusted Microsoft workflows against your users. And the quiet retirement of Defender’s built-in VPN is a good reason for every IT manager to look hard at what their bundled tools actually cover.
That PNG attachment in your inbox might be more than just pixels.
When Microsoft tells you to unplug your own servers, do not stop, do not pass Go and do not collect $200. Kindly proceed directly to your server room.
In my years of penetration testing and security consulting, I have learned two truths. First, vulnerabilities wait for no one. Second, if patching is not automated, it will be delayed, and those delays can eventually come back to bite you. I have lost count of the times a client said, “We will handle that next sprint,” only to find their systems...
If patching your main applications is like locking your front door, updating your dependencies is like checking the windows, the back door, and that cellar hatch you forgot existed.
The Toothbrush Principle of Cybersecurity Let’s start simple: patching is the process of applying software updates that fix bugs, close security holes, and occasionally add new features. Vendors like Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, and countless others release these patches regularly — sometimes on predictable schedules (“Patch Tuesday”), other times as...