Unfortunately, as is human nature, there will always be criminality. However, the modern world with its formidable physical security has made traditional crimes such as bank robberies almost obsolete.
Instead, cybercrime both for financial gain, ideological reasons or simply just vandalism has grown every single year since it was first recognised as an issue in the 1970’s. And it’s not just financial institutions or governments that are the targets. Every piece of data including credit card number, medical records or customer lists has a potential value to somebody.
It’s also not just external attackers; a significant proportion of cybercrime will often have either a willing or unwitting insider that has either opened the door or forgot to keep it shut. For many organisations, trying to maintain adequate levels of security to stop cyberattacks while meeting regulatory requirements is a complex and expensive task. A situation made worse by a national shortage of skilled information security professionals and a constantly changing landscape of technology, vulnerabilities and requirements. Getting the right staff is hard; keeping them in such an in-demand workplace is even tougher.
With ever evolving threats and in a world of point products and ‘silver bullets’, it can prove challenging to work out priorities and chart a course through the minefield of IT security. Our security review service is there to establish your organisations cyber-security maturity. By conducting staff interviews and performing network vulnerability scans, we can work out the right course for your organisation.
Setting down network and security processes is an important part of securing a business. This communicates to all staff how management wishes them to behave when using IT resources and defines what measures should be used to protect the businesses information. The network and security policy will guide IT staff during the planning, deployment, and maintenance phases of all projects. We can advise on best practice procedures and assist you in defining policy for your staff and how to enforce these with user education or via restrictions and configuration on your systems
IT security equipment and software vendors may claim in glossy brochures that simply installing the next shiny new product will instantly cure security threats but that is not the case. Although modern firewalls, intrusion detection and network access control systems are far more intelligent than their predecessor, all of these technologies and other systems need a level of system configuration along with initial and ongoing tuning to ensure they are running at an optimal level. However, organisations with limited training budgets and staff on other critical projects often don’t have the resources or expertise to perform these tasks to ensure that risks are kept to a minimum.
As organisations become more dependent on information technology systems to assist in critical business process, the impact of even a short outage is highly damaging. Although modern servers and networks can have good levels of redundancy at a component level, natural occurrence like floods or man-made issues such as the accidental severing of a power cable or cyber-attacks can knock out systems or even force office relocation. For every hour without IT, organisations lose business along with damage to reputation that can take years to rebuild.
At ANSecurity we understand that all companies are different, we will work with you to understand your business needs, what can be realistically attained given your company resources and what the technology can provide. Within our team, each consultant is assigned a subset of the vendors in our portfolio to specialise in and develop a deep understanding of. The team also performs regular cross training to ensure that all members have a broad understanding of other technologies in the market. All our team members are passionate about technology and will often be found testing the latest technology out in our lab.
ANSecurity offer bespoke training within an organisation to ensure our customer’s technical teams are able to be self-sufficient with the solutions we have deployed. From firewalls, switching, routing and wireless.
Many of our customers gain great benefit from technology to aid them in their core processes whether that’s retail, delivering healthcare or manufacturing. Yet they are not necessarily technology companies and will not necessarily retain expensive specialist IT staff in-house. So as new business drivers emerge and technology needs to adapt, many organisations find themselves with a skills shortage when it comes to delivering transformational IT projects or even updating systems to take advantage of advances in technology.
With the growing risk of cyber-attack, organisations of all sizes are looking to build on their existing security measures. However, in a world of jargon, limited internal resources and tight budgets, it can be difficult to build out a roadmap for success. Our cyber security posture assessment addresses this by using a proven methodology mapped against mitigations for real-world cyberattacks. By building on trusted frameworks, we can gauge the maturity of your organisation’s current security posture.
A threat emulation uses the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by real world threat actors to evaluate and inform improvements in your cyber security stack across endpoint, identity, cloud, and network. Provides actionable feedback to make changes in your end point protections, network firewall configuration, and other services to ensure you remain relevant to the ever changing threat landscape.