Cybersecurity is entering a completely different phase. A few years ago, many businesses considered antivirus software, a firewall and regular data backups enough to protect their IT environment. Today, ransomware groups, phishing campaigns, compromised user identities, cloud vulnerabilities and sophisticated cyberattacks have completely changed the security landscape. Modern businesses are connected almost everywhere. Employees access company applications from laptops and mobile devices. Business information is stored on cloud...

Most businesses today already have some form of cybersecurity. There may be a firewall at the network gateway, antivirus or endpoint protection on employee computers, backups running every night and perhaps Multi-Factor Authentication enabled for selected applications. Larger organisations may also have EDR, XDR, SIEM or other security monitoring technologies. On paper, the company appears protected. The difficult question is what happens when a real cyber threat appears...

A firewall cannot run your cybersecurity strategy. Antivirus cannot make a risk decision. A SIEM platform cannot protect a business if thousands of security alerts are continuously ignored. This is where many organisations misunderstand modern cybersecurity. A mature cyber defence model is a connected command system that brings prevention, protection, threat detection, incident response, security operations, engineering and business resilience together. Every security function must communicate with the...

Cybersecurity problems rarely arrive with a warning saying, “Your company will be attacked at 10:00 AM tomorrow.” They normally begin quietly. A strange login appears in the security logs. An employee clicks a phishing link. A server misses critical security patches. A sensitive document is accidentally emailed outside the organisation. A firewall generates hundreds of alerts, but nobody has the time to investigate them. This is where the...