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If you’re reading this, firstly we hope that you and your family remain in good health through-out this COVID-19 event. Now for the reason you are here… slow connection speeds or drop-outs to our services. At present quite a number of Australians are working from home and this is congesting networks through-out Australia. A little…
Secure-ISS continues to monitor the ongoing worldwide situation of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and would like to reassure our customer and partners that the health and well being of our team is always our number one priority. As we continue to monitor and be alert to the situation, all actions and recommendations taken by our…
Ask yourself, does your organisation collect threat information? How is this done? And is this information being used positively to assist in the detection and identification of a cyber threat or attack? NIST defines Cyber threat information as…” any information that can help an organization identify, assess, monitor, and respond to cyber threats. Examples of…
Secure ISS recently hosted a Cyber Security Roundtable in Brisbane. The event was well attended by organisations in the health, transport, financial services, engineering, mining and technology sectors. The topic for the roundtable discussion was “The changing threat landscape. Mitigation, detection and protection strategies”. The key note speaker was Leon Fouche (National Leader Cyber…
Dwell times are an interesting cyber security measure. So what is a Dwell time? There are numerous ways in which security companies and MSSP’s define Dwell time. For Secure-ISS we have settled on a measurement as to how long a threat (or threat actor) remains inside an environment (from initial intrusion) to the point whereby…
Business are continuing to grapple with a lack of skilled resources within the Cyber Security sector. To address the need, Secure-ISS offer a number of turn-key managed services to assist clients in delivering to their PAM requirements. Our services provide clients with deployment flexibility with On-Premises and Cloud delivered options, in both dedicated and shared…
Microsoft has released a patch today for a CRITICAL Remote Desktop Services vulnerability which affects some implementations of Remote Desktop Services. This is a pre-authentication Remote Code Execution vulnerability, which is as dangerous as they come. A similar vulnerability with SMB was exploited by the WannaCry malware, which caused significant technical and financial damage in…
Would you be able to identify a phishing or whaling exercise if it were to arrive in your email box? Would your CFO, Finance Manager, Accounts Team or Directors be able to identify a fake email? The Cyber Security Intelligence Index from IBM has revealed that more than 90% of all security incidents involve some…
Microsoft announce End of Life for Server 2008 and Server 2008 r2 January 14, 2020… …a date that still seems far enough in the future as to not influence day to day operations. However it’s a date that all businesses should be planning for. It is the date that Microsoft will cease providing Security updates…
Over the past few months we have been working on infrastructure upgrades to ensure that our private cloud offerings continue to provide great value and the highest performance levels for our customers. We have also upgraded a number of our edge protection devices and core switching across our stack.The upgrades provide benefits to our customers…