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User Application Hardening – Information Security Essentials
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User Application Hardening – Information Security Essentials

Published on April 1st, 2020 07:20PM by Christopher McNaughton

User Application Hardening While useful for many business operations, applications like Flash, Java, Adobe Acrobat and certain features in Microsoft Office (e.g. OLE), can allow malware or intruders to enter your network. Disabling these applications and blocking online ads can remove any opportunity for adversaries to exploit these potentially disruptive tools. If your organisation uses […]
Restricting Administrator Privileges – Information Security Essentials
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Restricting Administrator Privileges – Information Security Essentials

Published on April 1st, 2020 07:19PM by Christopher McNaughton

Restricting Administrator Privileges Restricting administrative privileges makes it difficult for to spread malware and malicious code inside your network. In terms of access to your valuable business data, administrative accounts are the keys to the kingdom. If malicious code is activated using an administrative account, it can elevate its privileges, spread to other hosts, avoid […]
Operating System Patching – Information Security Essentials
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Operating System Patching – Information Security Essentials

Published on April 1st, 2020 07:19PM by Christopher McNaughton

Operating System Patching Operating System (OS) patching refers to applying updates to operating systems. It is absolutely critical for ensuring system security. Time is of the essence in patching. It is ideal to apply patches within 48 hours of release.  In the SECMON1 blog post ‘Security Overview – Information Security Essentials’ , we spoke about […]
Disabling Local Administrator Accounts – Information Security Essentials
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Disabling Local Administrator Accounts – Information Security Essentials

Published on April 1st, 2020 07:19PM by Christopher McNaughton

Disabling Local Administrator Accounts The Administrator account (NT AUTHORITYAdministrator) exists by default on all Microsoft Windows (Windows NT-based) systems and Active Directory domains. It is typically used as a setup and disaster recovery account. If you must use the local administrator account, only use it during setup and to join the machine to the domain. […]
Backing Up – Information Security Essentials
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Backing Up – Information Security Essentials

Published on April 1st, 2020 07:19PM by Christopher McNaughton

Backing Up The concept behind backups is simple: Make a copy of your files and configurations and place them on storage separate from your main hard drive. That storage can be another drive, an external drive, a NAS, a rewritable disc, or an online storage and syncing service. Should you lose the files, either through […]
Security Overview – Information Security Essentials
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Security Overview – Information Security Essentials

Published on April 1st, 2020 07:18PM by Christopher McNaughton

    SECURITY OVERVIEW This guide is an overview of security measures all organisations can do to best protect themselves from threats to the security of their business and customer information and systems.  It contains a list of security mitigations that organisations can use to assist in securing their data to prevent data breaches and […]
Office 365 Health Check
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Office 365 Health Check

Published on March 25th, 2020 09:20AM by Christopher McNaughton

We frequently encounter implementations of Office 365 where basic information security has been overlooked.

Preventing Office 365 data breaches
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Preventing Office 365 data breaches

Published on March 24th, 2020 11:11AM by Christopher McNaughton

Whether you run a small, medium or large business it is essential to ensure your Office 365 environment is secure and being appropriately used by your staff.

COVID-19 & Working from home – Mitigate the security risks
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COVID-19 & Working from home – Mitigate the security risks

Published on March 19th, 2020 03:13PM by Christopher McNaughton

As COVID-19 infections increase globally there has been a vast increase in the numbers of staff working from home. Many of our clients have asked us to assess the potential security risks which may result. We thought it may be helpful to share some of this advice more widely. There are a number of key […]
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