Cybersecurity

 

It’s a sad truth that today’s Security Operations Centres often face uphill battles. Threat volumes continue to rise with teams now handling an average of 4,484 alerts each day. This level of noise fuels alert fatigue and undermines even the most capable analysts’ effectiveness. Traditional SIEM cybersecurity tools promised greater...

When it comes to a cyber attack, your incident response is the real decider between a flash in the pan or a prolonged incident with serious consequences. That’s why we’ve set out to explain the basics of cybersecurity incident response, including what it is, the risks of not having it...

We’ve all seen how easily deepfakes can fool even the most experienced teams. Now it’s time to talk about how to fight back.

The human cost of manual security Picture a security operations centre (SOC) at 9am. Overnight, thousands of alerts have piled up. Analysts open their dashboards to a wall of red notifications. Every ping might be a false alarm, or it might be the start of a real breach. The team...

Ransomware Attacks: Why Payment Feels Like the Only Way Out When ransomware hits, it feels like your world has stopped. Systems freeze, customers demand answers, and your boardroom turns into a war room. Then comes the ransom note, hundreds of thousands of pounds demanded to restore access.  Under that kind...

Why Microsoft Business Premium Is the Security Baseline A good number of CloudGuard’s customers operate with Microsoft Business Premium M365 licensing. In fact, approximately half of all M365 customers do. Microsoft has recently announced new options for Microsoft Business Premium M365 licenses with the ability to add the Microsoft Defender...

At CloudGuard, we know that cybersecurity for small business and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are under increasing pressure. Cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated, and regulatory requirements more demanding, all while teams are expected to do more with fewer resources. In 2024, 50% of UK businesses and 32% of charities suffered...

You’re working late, trying to get through your inbox. You receive an email from what looks like a trusted source, maybe your boss, maybe a vendor, and it asks you to click a link to log in to your company account. You click it without thinking, and just like that,...

You wouldn’t insure half your office. So why leave half your business unprotected from cyber threats? 50% of UK businesses were hit by cyber-attacks in 2024, costing medium-sized firms an average of £10,830 each time. Yet most of these losses were avoidable. In fact, 97% of successful attacks could have...