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Henrik Skovfoged - Group Product Director, Security - Conscia
Henrik Skovfoged Group Product Director, Security
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Is your Active Directory secure?

How do you discover and assess misconfigurations and newly discovered vulnerabilities in your most critical asset – Active Directory? Let’s face it. Most of the hacks being done today are exploiting or abusing the Microsoft Active Directory because that is where all users and administrators are located. So of course, we need to secure the […]
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Henrik Skovfoged - Group Product Director, Security - Conscia
Henrik Skovfoged Group Product Director, Security
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CIS Controls version 8

Center for Internet Security (CIS) has recently updated the CIS controls (May 2021) and we no longer have 20 controls as in CIS version 7.1 but “only” 18 controls. You can find the new version here: https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/v8/ In my opinion...
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Cyber Security Questions
Henrik Skovfoged - Group Product Director, Security - Conscia
Henrik Skovfoged Group Product Director, Security
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Where and how to begin the cyber security journey?

Where to start? Many European organizations struggle to start the cyber security journey. Most of the organizations know of all the cyber security incidents happening now and most management boards also have the cyber security as a top priority on...
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Emanuel Lipschütz CCIE
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Major security mistake costs businesses millions

Cybersecurity is on the board agenda for all companies or should at least be there. Everyone understands the efforts needed and that demands are constantly rising. Hard work and significant investments are not enough. We need to take advantage of...
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Emanuel Lipschütz CCIE
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Cutting corners in cyber security will backfire

Managers at manufacturing companies experience how IT, digitalization, call it what you want, washes over them at an accelerating rate over the next few years. It is essential to hang out and surf into the future; otherwise, you will have...
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cloud_firewall
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Cloud Managed Next Generation Firewall-as-a-Service

Network security is an unfair game. To protect your business, users, and data, you employ a number of security mechanisms across the data center, hybrid, and public cloud environments. On the contrary, the adversaries are only after one vulnerability. One...
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Jakob Premrn Cybersecurity Analyst
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PODCAST: Who are hackers and what do they want?

In this first episode of the Cybersec Bites Podcast, Jakob Premrn, Cybersecurity Analyst from NIL’s Security Operations Center (SOC), discusses the motives and operations of cybercriminals.
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Lars Cederholm CCIE
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Data is gold – protect it

By using new technologies in our everyday lives, enormous amounts of data are produced. 59 zettabytes of data were produced in 2020 in comparison to 2 zettabytes a decade ago. it is estimated that in 2021 this number will increase by...
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Jeffrey den Oudsten CTO Office Solutions Director, Conscia Netherlands
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Major Step forward in delivering IT-as-a-Service

For almost twenty years, Conscia has been a leading European provider of secure, reliable IT infrastructure. With a history of building and delivering fully managed solutions—largely built from Cisco’s broad portfolio of market-leading technologies—Conscia is moving toward delivering IT as a service to its customers. Furthermore, Cisco’s Cisco Plus announcement represents a significant step in this […]
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Data Abundance

By using new technologies in our everyday lives, enormous amounts of data are produced. 59 zettabytes of data were produced in 2020 in comparison to 2 zettabytes a decade ago. it is estimated that in 2021 this number will increase by 25%.
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Esther Hovenkamp Business Development Manager - Security at Conscia Nederland
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Education and research institutions are more vulnerable than ever

Education and research institutions are more vulnerable than ever and a significant target for cybercriminals. Indeed, in these challenging times, when more online education occurs, and teachers and students often access home applications, the risks only increase. The chance of...
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Matevž Mesojednik Security Operations Center (SOC) Manager, NIL
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Firefighting Cyberattacks

If you’ve been feeling depressed about the Covid-19 crisis lately, we’ve got news for you – cybercrime represents a similar threat to the modern civilization in a digital world as Covid-19 does to our health. We don’t have any long-term...
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Lateral Movement - advanced cybercrime
Jon-Anders Frigård Senior IT Architect, CCIE and Security Expert at Conscia Norway
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Lateral Movement – advanced cyber crime

Lateral Movement is a technology that cybercriminals use to move in a hijacked network. The movements look like normal network traffic, which allows them to move freely in the search for the information they are looking for. In Lateral Movement,...
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ICS OT Security
Danijel Grah Cybersecurity Analyst at NIL (part of Conscia Group)
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First steps toward ICS/OT Security

How ICS and OT targeted attacks became a serious threat Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Operation Technology (OT) form the foundation of critical infrastructure and are part of our everyday life. The technology behind ICS/OT was designed to last for...
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Tom Kern Senior Cyber Security Analyst and Researcher
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What is a Threat Detection Framework?

In today’s world of increasing complexity and lucrative cybercrime industry, you can only be certain of one thing: you will be hacked – and your exposure is growing. Read on to discover the framework and approaches to protect your business...
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Collaboration security
Jesper Erbs
Jesper Erbs System Engineer
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3 main things to consider when an incident occurs

Incident response What happens if the IT heart attack button is pressed? Do the IT personnel know what to do? Do your coworkers outside the IT organization know what to do? I recently spent a couple of days in the...
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David Kasabji - Cybersecurity analyst
David Kasabji Cyber Security Analyst
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WannaTry again? SMBv3 Vulnerability Awakes!

SMBv3 vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796) explained and how to defend against zero-day attacks We have just learned about a new vulnerability of the SMBv3 protocol, for which there are some concerns that it could cause an equivalent scenario in the cyber world....
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Henrik Skovfoged - Group Product Director, Security - Conscia
Henrik Skovfoged Group Product Director, Security
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5 takes on what impact the Human element has on Cyber Security

From the RSA Security Conference, which took place from the 24-28 February in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, USA. We were 2 participants from Conscia, and the following is a summary of our experience. The first thing that comes to my mind is the width of sessions. Going from deep technical sessions on methodology […]
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GRC: How IT departments can put IT Security on the corporate agenda
Henrik Skovfoged - Group Product Director, Security - Conscia
Henrik Skovfoged Group Product Director, Security
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GRC: How IT departments can put IT Security on the corporate agenda (Part 2)

Cyber Security on corporate agenda A string of major companies is learning it the hard way these years; dealing with Cyber Security is not a simple matter. Indeed, it is as much about corporate strategy, culture and management, as it is about Information Security. So how does an IT department go about dealing with information […]
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GRC: How IT departments can put IT Security on the corporate agenda
Henrik Skovfoged - Group Product Director, Security - Conscia
Henrik Skovfoged Group Product Director, Security
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GRC: How IT departments can put IT Security on the corporate agenda (Part 1)

Cyber Security on corporate agenda A string of major companies is learning it the hard way these years; dealing with Cyber Security is not a simple matter. Indeed, it is as much about corporate strategy, culture and management, as it...
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