Since the dawn of the epoch, many have said that sooner or later, having an IT monoculture would lead to a catastrophic failure on an epic scale. But far from seeing the CrowdStrike meltdown as a prediction that came true, it can be viewed as a lucky escape and a terrifying near-miss, as an early warning from which much could be learnt. It could have been so much worse.

In this article, Network Box Red Team Managing Consultant Richard Stagg reflects and shares his insight on CrowdStrike Friday.

As more and more smart devices are being installed in homes and offices, printers, fax machines, telephones, televisions, video surveillance, webcams, and copiers can be leveraged to spy inside the home and office network, as well as attack third-party networks. In this article, Network Box Managing Director, Michael Gazeley, discusses this and other dangers in greater detail.

In this article, we compare the Network Box Solution versus Other Managed Products and Self Managed Products over key metrics including: Responsibility, Deployment Options, Security Response Centre, Configuration, Service Times, Response Times, Hardware Response, Security Technologies, Security Updates, Patch Deployment, Reporting, and Track Record.

Today, cybersecurity has become a critical business necessity. Without this, companies cannot function, let alone thrive. In this article, Network Box USA’s Chief Technology Officer, Pierluigi Stella, provides the reader with ammunition to speak the language of and resonate with C-suite-level executives to ask for a cybersecurity budget.

In this article, Network Box USAs CTO, Pierluigi Stella, is talking about the Issues with DNS. If your network is like most companies, you are likely using Active Directory and therefore have Domain Controllers (DCs). Your workstations are likely using these DCs as their DNS servers. The DCs, in turn, have a configuration for DNS forwarders, which are used to resolve public IP addresses. In the majority of cases with our clients, these forwarders are configured to be the DNS servers of their primary ISP. This configuration might have been viable in the past, but today it is not advisable. In fact, it is discouraged.

As more and more organizations are moving from a centralized server-based approach to data to distributed hybrid storage models, we are right to be concerned with the consequences of data security and privacy that this brings. In this article, we talk about this in greater detail and the Network Box approach to ensuring the security of your configurations, maintenance, and private data.

Network Box has developed a set of Best Practices from over two decades of delivering Managed Security Services, investigating security incidents, and working with our customers to protect their networks. These represent the most common forms of network infiltration and data breaches that we see affecting networks around the world. We have published these to encourage broader awareness and recommend that all customers adhere to them. In this article, we outline these in further detail.

A few years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we've learned a lot about securely connecting our staff working from home. In this article, we recap the main concerns for remote working such as network-level threats, split-tunnel, infected workstation threats, and face-to-face verification; and discuss ways to address these problems.

Something we keep hearing of late is what cybersecurity is set to look like and how AI/Machine Learning will play a bigger role against ransomware and breaches. Imagine a system that “learns” and adapts its behavior based on what transpired in the past? While this may sound great in theory, we are still in the early stages of its development and is limited in its capabilities. In this article, Network Box USA’s CTO, Pierluigi Stella, highlights its limitations in our featured article and outlines approaches we can use today.

Most companies nowadays gather, store, and handle highly confidential client information. Such personal data is an integral part of almost every company's day-to-day existence. However, imagine needing some crucial data only to find access to your server, desktop computer, laptop, data file, backup file, or cloud backup file encrypted and blocked by Ransomware. Additionally, picture a situation where a hacker gains access to your network using a password that other hackers had stolen from your staff posted on the Dark Web. These aren't just hypothetical problems. Many businesses worldwide have been forced to face precisely such a nightmare in real life. In this article, we discuss this in greater detail.

Since the early days of computer emails, there has been spam, and one particular malicious form of spam is phishing. These are emails that attempt to extract private information by deception and social engineering. The vast majority of these emails have been obvious to most, however, some are specifically targeted and composed to look like legitimate emails, a process known as ‘Spear Phishing.’ This is discussed further this article.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage around the world, a solution in the form of vaccines has arrived. However, the trend of vaccine hesitancy is emerging; a significant percentage of the population simply won't accept the vaccine. In the IT Security Industry, we've seen similar behavior regarding security solutions. In this article, we will continue our discussion of biological epidemics and how they compare to IT Security issues.

The term Herd Immunity is all about reducing the Effective Reproduction Number (the average number of new infections caused by a single infected individual in a partially susceptible population) of a virus by reducing the percentage of individuals it can infect. In this article, we discuss the similarities of how Herd Immunity can be applied for both human and computer viruses.

Looking at the statistics for malware detection, it is clear that Microsoft Windows is a huge target. Last year, around 83% of malware targeted Windows, with another 11% targeting browsers, leaving just a few percentages left for all the other platforms. But does that mean that Windows is inherently weaker and more vulnerable? In this article, we analyze the data and discuss this in detail.

In this article, Network Box USA's Chief Technology Officer, Pierluigi Stella, is talking about the future of connected devices and the issue of If you can connect it, protect it. Typically, IoT devices come with default passwords that are readily available on the Internet and often do not automatically update themselves with the latest software patches. These issues make them vulnerable to security issues. This, and best practices are discussed in further detail.

Hackers are becoming increasingly clever at hiding their “products” in order to trick users into downloading malware. In our special case study report, the Network Box USA team analyzes a particular malicious email that was caught by our system and discusses the issues in this article.