SES Secure's Blogs

As we move on from the COVID-19 pandemic and return to the “new normal”. Darragh Lavin of SES explores how business continuity plans and the need to protect software assets has changed.

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According to IBM’s 2020 Cost Of A Data Breach Report, the average total cost of a successful breach in 2020 was $3.86 million. Can you afford not to put a robust Incident Response Plan in place? 

Having a disaster recovery plan to protect against unforeseen circumstances is essential to getting your business back online should the worst happen. With that in mind, how do you test that the recovery plans you have invested in are robust enough to guarantee that your critical applications can be swiftly and accurately redeployed in the event of a release?

What is Penetration Testing and how does it protect your business? Adam Boland of SES explores how Penetration Testing enables you to identify weaknesses in your organisation’s cyber security.

Script kiddies, human error, low-level criminals, disgruntled employees, serious organised cyber criminals, nation state-sponsored groups. When we talk about cyber threats, these are the ‘threat actors’ likely to be behind them.

As we get closer to the third anniversary of the introduction of GDPR legislation we have witnessed the number and severity of fines for breach of GDPR steadily increase. 

Each year, the headlines in the media about cyber-attacks don’t change much, with ‘cyber-attacks are on the rise’ and ‘cyber-attacks are getting more sophisticated’ being just two we see most often.

Advancements in technology are creating a huge shift in the way we as end users are incorporating critical applications into our organisations. Locally installed on-premise applications which require huge financial and time outlays to purchase and integrate are being replaced with SaaS applications delivered through a third party hosting partner. 

What are phishing scams? In this article, Adam Boland of SES explores the various types of phishing attacks and the steps you can take to defend against them.

European Cloud Computing giant OVH have announced last week that a major fire has destroyed one of its Strasbourg data centres and damaged another. The disaster is estimated to have brought more than 3.5 million websites offline. 

As we begin 2021 it is important to reflect on 2020 and the challenges we faced, preparing us for what lies ahead as we get back to what many describe as “the new normal”.