Blog

Code on a laptop collecting Digital Forensics Code on a laptop collecting Digital Forensics

Incident Response - taking stock

03 September 2020

The recent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the NZX are a clear demonstration of how cyberattacks adversely impact business operations causing reputational and financial damage. Some New Zealand organisations may not have any measures in place to prevent a DDoS attack, and possibly do not see a strong business requirement to protect…

Read More
A business man working on a laptop about to make a call for IT incident response assistance A business man working on a laptop about to make a call for IT incident response assistance

Responding to a data breach becoming more challenging

13 August 2020

The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report (2020), compiled with research data from the Ponemon Institute, surveyed over 500 organisations who experienced data breaches between August 2019 and April 2020. As the spread of Covid-19 was also creating challenges for business operations during the research period, participants were asked additional questions…

Read More
A hacker sitting at a computer exploiting vulnerabilities, demonstrating the importance of regularly conducting a penetration test A hacker sitting at a computer exploiting vulnerabilities, demonstrating the importance of regularly conducting a penetration test

Marking Your Own Homework

26 June 2020

Gartner recently predicted that through 2025, 99% of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault. Whilst it might be a challenge to actually measure this prediction it also doesn’t seem to take into account that there is a reasonable possibility an IT contractor, or the employees of a System Integration company, might also play a part in a…

Read More
The globe with icons on IT Security, the cloud, email security, and personnel The globe with icons on IT Security, the cloud, email security, and personnel

DX Accelerating - as is Data Security Complexity

21 May 2020

At the end of April, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella was quoted in the media saying his company had seen two years’ worth of digital transformation (DX) in two months, with massive demand for remote teamwork and learning, sales and customer service, and critical cloud infrastructure and security. This major change was one of the reasons why Microsoft’…

Read More

Contact Us Today

Fill in the form below or call us on +64 9 570 2233