What is Ransomware Ransomware is a specific type of malicious software which is used in ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks are often caused by...
Cyber Incident Response
Cyber Security Incident Response Services
by First Response | 12 January, 2022
Cyber incident response or cyber security incident response services may be called on when an organisation has suffered a data breach, when they suspect they...
Cyber Security Incident Response – Ransomware Attack
by First Response | 6 October, 2021
Our cyber security incident response team works with clients across the globe, helping them recover from ransomware attacks and other cybersecurity incidents....
Business Email Compromise – Financial Services
by First Response | 6 October, 2021
With the rapid adoption of Microsoft 365 we have seen a rise in business email compromise attacks. First Response were called in by the Head of IT for a 700...
Mission Impossible
by Hugh Ashton | 9 June, 2021
"Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is to come up with a response to these demands within twelve hours." What would you do if all the IT...
Incident Response 101
by Hugh Ashton | 2 June, 2021
It'll be all right on the night – NOT When a disaster such as a ransomware attack strikes your organisation, how well are you prepared? A cyber incident...
Remote working has brought problems
by Hugh Ashton | 14 February, 2021
These are not theoretical possibilities, but real-life attacks which can cost an enterprise tens of thousands of pounds – or more [Cue Mission Impossible...
It can’t happen to us
by Hugh Ashton | 10 December, 2020
Unfortunately, it can happen, even to the most secure of us. The recent breach at FireEye, one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated cybersecurity...
Cybercrime wave threatens to become a tsunami
by Hugh Ashton | 24 April, 2019
If you’re not already a target – the odds are that you soon will be Cybercrime is big business – the average cost to a business of an attack on a UK...
How real are hardware cyberattacks and what’s your exposure?
by Hugh Ashton | 7 November, 2018
A story has recently surfaced from Bloomberg about the supposed discovery of tiny ‘spy chips’ installed on servers constructed for an American firm (Super...
Cyber insurance: We’ve got you covered… sort of.
by Hugh Ashton | 1 November, 2018
Insurance is a must to mitigate many business risks. Fire, flood, employee liability, and so on. One of the newer risks is cybercrime. Banks and other...
The Importance of an Effective Cyber Incident Response Plan
by Meg Vincent | 12 October, 2017
Following our previous post which discussed the basics of GDPR, this second article examines the qualities of an effective Cyber Incident Response Plan (CIRP)...
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