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Earning or renewing a technical certification with WatchGuard empowers you to enhance your expertise and stay up to date with the latest advancements in their products. WatchGuard offers exams that cover the spectrum of essential skills related to WatchGuard solutions. Combining hands-on experience with these certification exams can substantially help you provide the best possibleRead more

Cyber adversaries constantly leverage sophisticated, malicious applications and legitimate tools to infiltrate organisations and evade existing security controls. To counter such attacks, security teams need to transition from security management to proactive security operations, efficiently thwarting cyber threats before they cause damage. At a high level, the SOC’s core mission remains to help the enterpriseRead more

November brings two of the busiest shopping days of the year – the annual Black Friday and Cyber Monday events that originated in the United States have increasingly become a global phenomenon. Cybercriminals will take advantage of frenzied consumers, hoping to find the best deals, and match the non-stop advertising by retailers with an increaseRead more

Constructing a modern SOC A modern SOC (Security Operations Centre) can be built internally, although many organisations lack the in-house resources to accomplish this and struggle to find suitable staff members due to the deep skills crisis. As a result, they turn to managed security service providers, entirely or partially, that offer monitoring and proactiveRead more

Cybersecurity Awareness Month has been celebrated every October for 20 years. This initiative, promoted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) with the support of the National Cybersecurity Alliance, aims to raise awareness of the importance of implementing a comprehensive cybersecurity system. Over the past few years, we have seen how cyberattacks have grown moreRead more

Modern SOCs are highly specialised security operations centres whose objective is to detect attackers who have gained access to an organisation’s device or network. Built around complex environments, a team of cybersecurity experts who have been assigned different roles coordinate operations at SOCs. These professionals execute a sequence of specific processes supported by tools capableRead more

Hybrid work, which involves splitting the working week between in-office and remote work time, is the new normal that many companies have been adapting to after the COVID-19 pandemic crisis forced them to work remotely to continue providing services. A recent study, indicates that 58% of companies have been encouraged to promote a hybrid return toRead more

The growing number and complexity of threats, combined with the expansion of the attack surface, complicate the primary purpose of a Security Operations Centre (SOC): detecting, analysing, and responding to security incidents. These factors generate exponential growth in data volume and security alerts, which teams need more resources to address. 31% of SOC leaders andRead more

Cybercriminals are well versed in the tactic of phishing, which aims to trick users into revealing confidential information and gain unauthorised access to user accounts and compromise corporate networks. A new type of phishing attack has now emerged, known as MFA phishing, which evades key protection measures deployed by corporate networks. The SANS 2022 Managing HumanRead more

In these modern times, the threat landscape continues to expand. Tactics previously used by cyber criminals have evolved – they are now highly skilled and are motivated by financial and geopolitical gains, circumventing security controls more stealthily than was previously possible. Here is a list of important factors to consider when addressing cybersecurity in enterprisesRead more