Posts Tagged ‘penetration testing’
Understanding Your Penetration Test Report
Part 3: What Should I Expect in a Penetration Test Report? A penetration test report is a comprehensive document that details the security assessment of your systems. You can expect it to include an executive summary, which provides a high-level overview of the findings for non-technical stakeholders, and a technical section that dives deep into…
Read MorePreparing Your Company for a Penetration Test
Part 2: The Most Asked Questions About Penetration Test Preparation How can I prepare my company for a penetration test? Properly preparing for a penetration test ensures that your business is ready for a thorough security assessment. Begin by defining what you are trying to achieve, such as identifying system vulnerabilities, assessing your security, or…
Read MoreWhy Your Business Needs Penetration Testing
Part 1: What is Penetration Testing, and Why Does My Business Need It? Penetration testing, or pen testing, is a simulated cyberattack designed to identify security weaknesses in an organization’s systems, applications, and networks. It’s a proactive way to for your business to uncover and fix vulnerabilities before cybercriminals can take advantage, reducing the chances of…
Read MoreSecurity for the SMB: Preventing a Business Nightmare
T-Mobile. Home Depot. Target. California State University. All are large organizations that fell victim to expensive data breaches because of a third-party vendor, nor are they alone in that list! For any small to medium-sized business (SMB), there are two very important points to be aware of: 1) Small companies are, in fact, targets. Whether they…
Read MoreWanna Cry? Updating your systems is crucial!
When hacking exploits had been leaked from the NSA last month, it offered a hacking toolkit to anyone in the world who wished to try to use them. The companies responsible for the effected programs, such as Microsoft, had immediately scrambled to update – or had, in fact, already provided updates – to defend against these…
Read MoreTiro Security Founder interviewed by HACKIN9 magazine
One of our Founders Kris Rides talks about his role as CEO aka Chief Everything Officer at Tiro Security. He discusses the challenges running a boutique Information Security company that provides both staffing and professional services.
Read MoreTarget to pay $20M to MasterCard over hack
One of 2013’s most publicized security breaches was the renowned Target hack. Now two years later, the multibillion dollar giant is reported to pay as much as $20 million to banks issuing MasterCard over costs from the incident.
Read MoreOne month until the ‘Reset the Net’ movement to fight NSA surveillance
Privacy advocates have decided it is time for Internet users to take more serious measures to resist surveillance from National Security Agency and other alleged spy groups. The movement for users and developers to deploy newer and better security and privacy tools was introduced by Fight for the Future and has support from over 30 groups including Reddit, Imgur, Free Press, Libertarian Party and Demand Progress. June 5, the one year anniversary of the first news stories on Edward Snowden’s leaks about NSA surveillance, is the date ‘Reset the Net’ will initiate.
Read MoreWeb Application Security on the rise as 2013 comes to an end
Almost a third of all security breaches are against web applications, and web applications and databases have the most records compromised yearly. So why aren’t applications being better protected?
Read MoreApple’s iMessage is DEA Disaster
Apple’s iMessage app appears to be giving the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency real problems because they are not able to trace and track text message conversations lie conventional SMS. When Apple’s iMessage was announced in mid-2011, Cupertino said it would use “secure end-to-end encryption” and sure enough messages sent between two Apple devices are encrypted communication and cannot be intercepted. iMessage protocol is actually on Apple push notifications (APNS) – a proprietary protocol. An…
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