Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 30 July 2021: Many Workers Ignore Security Risks To Maximize Productivity; Financial Services Accounting For Nearly 40% Of All Phishing URLs; Half Of Organisations Are Ineffective At Countering Phishing And Ransomware Threats; 36% Of Organisations Suffered A Serious Cloud Security Data Leak Or A Breach In The Past Year; HP Finds 75% Of Threats Were Delivered By Email In First Six Months Of 2021
Read MoreWelcome to this week's Black Arrow Cyber Tip Tuesday, this week James is talking about how purchasing security tools does not in itself increase security.
It’s fair to say that there are plenty of things you can do for little or no cost that will greatly decrease your attack surface or increase your security posture. With the sheer number of products on offer promising a complete solution, it’s easy to fall in to the trap of wanting a quick fix for security. However, simply purchasing a product is unlikely to offer any benefit without appropriate configuration or in many cases the expertise to interpret the output.
Read MoreToday we are talking about tools, as no tool, or suite of tools, can offer one hundred percent protection, after all anything man made can be man broken! Even if a tool did offer complete protection today there will be teams of people around the world working around the clock to break it. Anyone who says they rest easy or who says they sleep well at night because they have a particular tool is likely overconfident in that tool's ability to keep them safe. Multiple layers of protection are needed and any technical solution still needs to be backed up with robust people and governance controls.
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