The Cost of a Breach
IBM’s 2024 Cost of a Data Breach report, identified that the average cost of a data breach in the UK reached £3.58 million, and that this cost had increased 5% since 2023. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigation report, suggested there was a 37% increase in ransomware attacks being reported, with a median payout of $115,000 […]
Red Teams – Supporting Incident Response
Unauthorised access into remote computers has been around since the 1960s but since those early days organisations and their IT systems have become complex, and that complexity is increasing at an exponential rate, making securing those systems increasingly difficult. Defence mechanisms like firewalls, antivirus software, and monitoring systems have become essential, but they aren’t enough […]
Flawed Foundations – Issues Commonly Identified During Red Team Engagements
Cybersecurity Red Team engagements are exercises designed to simulate adversarial threats to organisations. They are founded on real world Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures that cybercriminals, nation states, and other threat actors employ when attacking an organisation. It is a tool for exercising detection and response capabilities and to understand how the organisation would react in […]
