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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...
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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

As a research or educational institution, you are a grateful target for cybercriminals. Especially in this challenging time, with more online education, teachers and students often approach home applications. The risk of a data breach is high; the consequences are...
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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. The vulnerability was accidentally leaked by Microsoft themselves, before a patch has been released. There […]
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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...
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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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SIEM
Henrik Skovfoged - Group Product Director, Security - Conscia
Henrik Skovfoged Group Product Director, Security
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To SIEM or not to SIEM

In my last article I was arguing for more focus on detection and response instead of a single focus on prevention. One of the best tools in our detection catalogue is the SIEM. I believe that the SIEM industry has...
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Login – the problem that never disappears.
Mikael Gustafsson Mikael Gustafsson
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Login – the problem that never disappears. Now there is a possibility!

Credentials cause a lot of problems. With Duo Security, not anymore. Credentials, credentials, a lot of authentications happen in a day. But Conscia’s security architect Mikael Gustafsson has seen the light, and it’s called Duo Security. He is telling us...
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DNS: High security with low costs

For more than a decade, OpenDNS has been among the world’s most used DNS services and is still seen to be one of the best ways to get the most security for your money. Cloud-based DNS-security is easy to implement...
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Is our digital maturity a house of cards?

When I was little I learnt a few clear rules at home: ”Look three times before crossing the road. Don’t go in the water after eating. Brush your teeth in the morning and before bed.” Nowadays you are still fighting...
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Exploit the implementation of Firepower!

With integrated Next Generation Firewall Features Firepower is extremely effective at blocking external threats. But, are you exploiting all the knowledge and information Firepower has about your network? In this blog post we will focus on how you can build your Cisco Firepower...
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VPNFilter – how to protect yourself

Cisco’s warning system, Talos blog, warned about a major attack on network and storage devices from small offices and homes. More than half a million devices in 50 countries are infected with the malware, VPNFilter. Internet of Things, with the acronym IoT, has in recent years been hit by several network-based attacks, which really showed […]
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First line of defense with DNS Security

Wouldn’t it be great if you could protect the equipment in your network before connecting to the Internet! You have already taken the necessary measures. Still, it feels like something is still missing when it comes to the protection of your equipment. That’s right. Because without the DNS security of Cisco Umbrella, data traffic enters […]
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IoT – like Internet of Trouble

Right now IoT, acronym for Internet of Things, is undoubtedly among the most popular buzzwords in the IT industry. And there is no doubt that we could compile some relevant business cases if we suddenly managed to get everything to be...
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