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Cyber Hygiene relates to the practices and precautions organisations need to take in order to protect their devices and infrastructure, maintain system health and improve their online security.

Following on from last week’s mailer where we discussed the various phishing attacks which exist and how your organisation can defend against them, this article discusses the advantages of a multi layered approach to secure your organisation against phishing threats.

Phishing is a type of social engineering attack used to steal individual’s sensitive data such as login credentials and credit card data. Attackers masquerade as trusted entities and dupe their victims into opening malicious links which can lead to the target revealing sensitive information or malware being installed on their devices.

Traditional network security takes a positively medieval approach, building high castle walls and focusing on outward facing defences to keep attackers out of your network, but what happens when then they make it past your anti-virus and firewalls and breach your defences?

According to the 2018: Risk Value Report published by NTT Security, half of UK firms are still not prepared to invest in proactive measures to secure their organisation against cyber threats.

Cyber attacks and breaches can happen to any organisation at any time, causing significant damage. Therefore, it is essential that your incident response plans are effective enough to respond to, contain and eradicate a breach as quickly as possible, limiting their impact.

Cyber criminals are always searching for easy targets, prodding and probing organisations to find weaknesses in their security which can be used to gain access.

Despite an overall decrease in fraud and computer misuse figures for 2017, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that incidents involving computer misuse and malware against businesses are way up.

With just 11 weeks to go until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, this article aims to banish the GDPR jargon and give you the basic information you need to ensure you are prepared for the incoming regulations.

According to the latest annual state of malware report by security firm Malwarebytes, detection of ransomware attacks on businesses grew by 90% last year compared with 2016.

With Cyber Attacks and breaches making the headlines on an almost daily basis, the importance of effective Cyber Security has never been higher.

At SES we understand that investing in Cyber Security can be incredibly costly and many smaller organisations simply cannot afford some of the higher end Cyber Security services.