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7 Reasons Why Businesses Need TableTop Exercises

Top Reasons Why Incident Response Table Top Exercises Are Important In today's digital world, cyber threats are becoming more...

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Remote Assistance Tools - T1219

Let's talk about remote assistance tools! As you would expect, a remote assistance tool is used to assist end-users from a remote...

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Microsoft Office - Arbitrary Code Execution

We have recently observed threat actors evolving their procedures in light of Microsoft disabling macros by default in office documents....

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Stale Active Directory User Accounts

A user account is created in Active Directory for each user in your environment. Over time as users leave the organization, their...

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Cyber Insurance Benefits

What is Cyber Insurance? A cyber insurance policy is commonly called "cyber risk insurance" or "cyber liability insurance" coverage. It...

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Forensic Friday - Profile Lists

What are Profile Lists? Windows keeps track of user-profiles and their locations in the registry. The profile location is stored under...

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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR or BC/DR) is a collection of processes and procedures that assist a company in recovering...

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Forensic Friday - Prefetch

What is Windows Prefetch? Windows Prefetch creates files when a user opens an application on a Windows host. The Windows Operating system...

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Emotet Changing Techniques

Phishing attacks remain the number one technique used in cyberattacks. Some of the most common phishing attacks leveraged attachments to...

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Cyberattacks On The Rise

As we look across the landscape, we see that cyberattacks continue to succeed in all business sectors. In the cases we have observed, the...

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Attack Surface Management

Considering today's attack surface's massive and hyper-dimensional nature, we begin to see how challenging it is to manage this attack...

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Importance of EDR

Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) A critical task for most organizations has become setting up advanced threat protection as...

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What is Qbot / Qakbot

QBot, also known as Qakbot or pinkslipbot, is an information stealer that has been active since 2007. It is malware software that can...

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An Encounter with Pandora

Pandora ransomware came into the spotlight in March of 2022 after posting some high-profile victims on its leak site. The ransomware...

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How are your Backups?

Producing and preserving copies of data to safeguard businesses against data loss is referred to as backup and recovery. The data from...

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Lessons Learned from Conti leaks

A Russian-based Conti Ransomware gang chat leak has started a new debate. The massive chat leak from inside has provided a clearer...

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5 Reasons you should not pay ransomware attackers

Ransomware is the type of suspicious software Cybercriminals use to encrypt your data, rendering it unusable. As a result, the attackers...

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What is Incident Response?

Incident response is a method for dealing with various forms of security events, cyber threats, and data breaches in an organized manner....

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How Secure Are Your Passwords?

Strong passwords play an essential role in safeguarding your company's data and client information. Unfortunately, due to weak or...

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What is a Vulnerability Assessment?

Assessments of vulnerabilities identify weaknesses, threats, and vulnerabilities in your organization's systems and networks. This...

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