SSL certificates are an essential component of the data encryption process that make internet transactions secure. They are digital passports that provide authentication to protect the confidentiality and integrity of website communication with browsers.The SSL certificate's job is to initiate secure sessions with the user’s browser via the secure sockets... read more →

This past Monday, some Microsoft services including Outlook email services, O365, and Teams collaboration suite experienced a prolonged outage, lasting up to 6 hours in some cases. While the exact cause is still to be confirmed, Microsoft has cited “authentication issues” and “configuration change in the back end”. Users attempting to log... read more →

Many of your users are active on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. The bad guys use these platforms to scrape profile information of your users and organisation to create targeted spear phishing campaigns in an attempt to hijack accounts, damage your organization's reputation, or gain access to your network and... read more →

Newsletter: 8 September 2020 Essential 8 compliance needed for government business Hot areas: Application Control / Staff awareness training / Incident response We have recently been working with many clients who gain mandates and work with Government departments and government enterprises. Increasingly they are being asked to demonstrate their compliance... read more →

https://risky.biz/RB595/ This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. They make allowlist/safelist software that is actually manageable at scale! David Cottingham, an Airlock co-founder, joins the show this week to talk through a few product updates.

Let Securite show you how to make sure your employees understand the mechanisms of spam, phishing, spear phishing, malware, ransomware and social engineering and can apply this knowledge in their day-to-day job. Old school Security Awareness Training doesn’t hack it anymore. Today, your employees are frequently exposed to sophisticated phishing... read more →

Gartner PeerInsights recently said of Airlock:"Why Aren't More People Talking About These Guys?" "Airlock has been a critical part of our information security journey. Its ability to provide out of the box application whitelisting to any endpoint, anywhere in the world without relying on network connections or domain joined systems... read more →

August 12, 2020 12pm EST https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqfu2vqjojGNCPam6bZXYAkTi5M-oLQ4IE Airlock enables you to easily create and manage secure whitelists in dynamically changing computing environments.Unlike signature based file blocking (black listing) such as antivirus, Airlock only allows files it has been instructed to trust, to run. If the file is not in the whitelist it... read more →

​On 6 August 2020, the Australian Government released Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy 2020 (3MB PDF). The Australian Cyber Security Strategy 2020 will invest $1.67 billion over 10 years to achieve our vision of creating a more secure online world for Australians, their businesses and the essential services upon which we all... read more →

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