Estimated reading time: 2 minutes For good reason, organizations regulate their employees’ access to their office devices. Of course, there are no overarching rules but organizations try to adopt a ‘horses for courses’ approach, i.e., an employee working in the financial sector who handles confidential data day in, day out may only be allowed to use their device to log on to the company network. On the other hand, the same organization might allow employees in its marketing department to use the Internet without any access restrictions. All organizations though agree on one principle – office ..read more

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Enterprises are increasingly migrating operations to the public cloud, enthused by the many benefits it offers. By embracing cloud competencies, enterprises can become leaner and faster, enabling their employees to access information and services from wherever they are. It can also reduce costs by shrinking the number of physical data centres that an organization requires. However, before leaping onto the cloud, enterprises must evaluate the risks of cloud migration. Every organization has different needs — a successful use case of cloud migration at another c ..read more

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes The unprecedented rise of a work from home staff has greatly increased the risk of data breaches for the IT/ITes sector. With companies forced to mandate Work From Home (WFH) for its employees in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the major focus has been on business continuity. However, IT/ITes companies have also had to reconcile their responsibilities towards keeping client data safe with the fact that most of their employees are now working remotely. Under the cyber laws of different countries, companies are liable for breach of client data irrespec ..read more

Estimated reading time: 1 minute Microsoft has recently come up with a new update for Windows 10 PCs, called Windows 10 May 2020 Update 20H1 (Vibranium) Build version 2004. This post lists down some of the highlights of this update and Seqrite Endpoint Security’s compatibility with this OS. Highlights of the Windows 27 May 2020 Update Specialized Displays in Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Pro for Workstations Improved disk usage for Windows Search Quick searches now in Search Home Improved Bluetooth pairing experience Option to move the Cortana Window Users can reset your PC from the cl ..read more

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Endpoint security acts as the vanguard against an enterprise’s battle against cyber attacks. This is because every device that connects to a corporate network is in most cases the first point of penetration for threats and malware. For enterprises to win the battle, they need to find robust solutions to bolster their vanguard. It is due to this phenomenon that enterprises are exceedingly looking into the importance of Endpoint Security. In this day and age of increased collaboration between devices and cloud-hosted content collaboration platforms, we can witne ..read more

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes In May 2017, the entire world plunged into chaos. The WannaCry ransomware ravaged through close to 300,000 systems and 200,000 victims, shutting down networks, causing chaos and demanding payment to give data back. Just a month later, another cyber attack, this time called NoPetya, ravaged through much of the European nations, primary targeting Ukraine but also affecting France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom. Both these attacks were caused by the EternalBlue exploit which exploited the vulnerability in SMB 1 (Server Message Block) protocol of W ..read more

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes In our first part of this series, we provided a few scenarios of your system not working the way it should and how it could be a symptom of a malware infection. Unfortunately, if you thought those were the only symptoms of infection, you were sadly mistaken. We have only scratched the surface so far – the people who create malware are continuously innovating and finding different ways to hit their targets. How do we stay a step ahead and spot an attack immediately? Here’s a run-down of some other warning signs of an infection: Help, I didn’t send this mail/Fac ..read more

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes A malware infection can lead to a major drop in productivity. Whether it’s on an office system or on a personal one, these infections can lead to everyday work grinding down to a halt and at worse, a complete breakdown in communication. That is why it is important to keep high-quality anti-virus and anti-malware solutions like Seqrite’s solutions updated and deployed. But, the solutions can only be used when there is an awareness that there is a problem. At times, many users may not even know that they have an infection. Something may be going wrong or their s ..read more

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes While almost all industries and sectors are at the risk of cyber threats, the effects on these threats on certain sectors can be disastrous. One of these sectors is healthcare. A cyber attack on a healthcare system can be dangerous and life-threatening – imagine critical care patients being locked out of the system. The problem is compounded by the fact that some healthcare systems may not spend much on their cybersecurity protection, considering the fact that the data they store can be extremely sensitive and confidential. A normal hospital’s networ ..read more

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Brute-force attacks can probably be regarded as the first word in the alphabet of cybersecurity. Among the oldest ways of trying to gain unauthorized access to an account, brute-force attacks have been around forever. But the fact that despite their day and age, they are still used is a testament to the fact that it still remains scarily effective. But first, what are brute-force attacks? They are actually exactly the name conveys – when hackers use “brute force” to guess a username or password to gain access to an account. Hackers can keep trying on various c ..read more