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This statistic – mean–time–to-detection (MTTD) – comes up every year. 197 days is the 2018 figure, but it’s always quite big. It is marginally up on the previous year, up from 191 days. This begs two questions: why does it take so long to identify breaches, and are we even identifying all of them?
I wrote in a recent blog that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is not a panacea to ensure security of your accounts. It’s a useful tool – although many customers complain about the manageability and usability of such solutions – but more and more, MFA is being defeated. On the one hand, that’s just business as usual – ‘twas ever thus in the security arms race, since the first lock-and-key was invented 6000 years ago. On the other hand, MFA deployments give both users and security teams a sense of security which is increasingly false.
BEC is perhaps the latest, or maybe hottest, security scare acronym – Business Email Compromise. It’s a catchall term which reflects the fact that ‘email is still the number one threat vector facing organisations’1. And that’s for two reasons: it’s constantly used for broad sharing of information within and outside of the business, and it’s also your digital identity – if I can access your email, I can be you. But… this has all been true for decades. So what’s new?
Meet the IDECSI team as we will be exhibiting at the FIC 2019 – the international cybersecurity forum, a platform aiming at promoting a pan-european vision of cybersecurity as well as to strengthen the fight against cybercrime, which will take place in Lille Grand Palais, on January 22-23, 2019. Meet us at the show stand #A7-28 and schedule a 1:1 meeting with our cyber security experts today!
Companies need efficient and cost-effective methods to detect targeted email attacks launched via a compromised account or identify those using brute force methods to steal corporate Microsoft Office 365 login credentials.
The e-Crime and Cybersecurity Congress, organised by the AKJ Associates will take place from 5th March to 6th March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. The conference will cover areas like Understanding business priorities and articulating risk to enable commercial initiatives while protecting brand reputation.
Everywhere you turn on the Internet, you can find cyber security statistics – and they’re all very scary. I figured I’d pen a few quick words on some the stats I’ve seen, to try and work out how much we should care, or what they’re really telling us.
IDECSI will be exhibiting at the European Information Security Summit 2019 (TEISS), which will take place in Etc.venues, 155 Bishopsgate, London on February 12-13, 2019. Meet the IDECSI team at the booth #13 or schedule a 1:1 meeting with our cyber security experts in advance!
Some companies are born with O365, some achieve the migration, and others have Office 365 thrust upon them. Whichever category you’re in, the Office 365 juggernaut cannot be ignored.
For more than four years, IDECSI has built a solid reputation by protecting email and Office 365 accounts for executives and employees of major international groups. IDECSI is often engaged as an expert on best practices for the protection of mailboxes, be that for executives, senior managers, their assistants, employees managing sensitive information (HR, DOFA, IT, security, …), and the wider employee base.
