What are the greatest cyber threats to a recruitment agency? With so much sensitive business and personal candidate data, recruitment firms are a highly attractive target for threat actors. What methods are most commonly used to breach recruitment agencies? And what can they do to protect business, their staff, and their candidates? Phishing Attacks: Recruiters ... Read more
The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology recently published the Cyber Security Breaches Survey for 2023. Below we look at some of the key findings and actions you can take to ensure your business doesn’t become part of these statistics. Headlines for cyber-attacks on UK businesses in the past 12 months: 2.39 million ... Read more
Gone are the days of threat actors solely targeting large businesses and governments for malicious gain. With large security teams and layers of defence continuously combatting hackers, their attention for some time has turned to easier targets, often with valuable assets to capture with minimal effort required. The consequences of a cyber attack on a ... Read more
In today’s way of living and working, where results are needed now, and outputs are required regularly to keep pace with continuous changes, especially in the digital world, are we really still accepting that penetration tests should take days to schedule, weeks to deliver and months to remediate the outputs? Following rigorous trials and feedback ... Read more
What are the greatest threats facing software development firms? Almost all organisations are reliant on software to drive their operations. We assume sound security of these programmes enabling us to deliver upon daily objectives. But what are the key threats facing software developers, and what measures should they be taking to counteract these issues? Denial ... Read more
April was a busy month for flagship cyber security events across the globe. We take a closer look at the key themes and learnings taken from some events Amicis and its partners attended: CyberUK, 19-20 April, Belfast, Northern Ireland Global co-operation was the opening talk of the event and remained a key theme throughout the ... Read more
Amicis are proud to launch our multi-tenanted security operations service: Amicis Threat Defence – SecOps. With so many security, compliance and reporting demands, we recognise the challenge of managing all these across numerous workstreams and being able to prioritise and focus on the most pressing issues at any one time. For this reason, we have ... Read more
What are the greatest risks to healthcare organisations? Healthcare is currently one of the most targeted sectors for cyber attacks. In recent years, the average cost of an attack has surpassed the $10M mark according to IBM Security’s annual Cost of a Data Breach Report. There are some significant cases of this being even higher, ... Read more
The Security Operations Centre (SOC) market, according to Emergen Research, was worth $4.9 billion in 2021, with a forecast CAGR of close to 20% through to 2030. The evolution of this security service has accelerated considerably over the past ten years. In this article, we examine the biggest changes in offerings and the features which ... Read more
There has been a rapid rise in attacks targeting the construction industry over the past five years. Security leaders in this space have found themselves needing to increase investments in their infrastructure from five to seven figures, largely driven by the profile and severity of the attacks experienced by their peers. Various reports published over ... Read more
