Reasons Why You Need To Keep Your Business Data Safe - Infographic

Identity theft, is the most common and top cyber crime. If you have business online and need to secure your online assets then read on why you need to keep your data safe and what precautions you should take in order to prevent data theft.

Reasons Why Mobile App Security Testing is Vital -Infographic

In today's era, security has become the necessity. Online security for online assets is mandatory to secure online data and assets. Mobile application security is need and vital as well. Mobile app security prevent attack and the steps involved in testing predicts the behavior of attacker thus providing us to take security measures.

Is Cloud Hosting Secure?

Cloud hosting or cloud computing is a great way to reduce costs and improve the overall efficiency of the IT function for businesses.

All major companies, such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon offer cloud platforms to their users, but cloud storage is still less than 10% of total data stored in the world.

Why is cloud required?

Businesses usually have hundreds of applications to run, which can consume their IT resources. Companies also require data centres, which require a lot of space and energy, increasing a business’s utility costs.

Through cloud hosting services, businesses can eliminate a lot of hardware and software in their premises and focus more on their core competencies and customer care.

Cloud hosting can provide a much-needed optimisation that most business leaders are looking for today. Being able to plug into cloud based services that are ready-made for use enables businesses to achieve more efficiency and innovation.

What are the risks involved?

The most obvious risk is giving access to a third party that has data centres placed in remote places. In case of any natural disaster, the company’s data could be lost or compromised.

Most companies may think that since they have outsourced their data management, the third party will take care of the security of the data. However, the responsibility for the protection of the data, especially sensitive customer data, is still on the company and not some third party.

Therefore, it is important for the provider and the company to address the information security relating to cloud hosting. Not only the provider, but the company must ensure that they are in no way compromising the security of the cloud.

Risk management is nothing new for organisations, so companies must ensure that the presence of their employees on the cloud meets the regulatory and industry requirements.

Is cloud hosting secure?

The security of cloud depends on the quality of the cloud hosting service. Many cloud hosting services provide customers with their own encryption key, which means that even the employees working for the cloud provider cannot access the data, even if they wanted to.

In fact, most data breaches happen from inside the company rather than from the end of the cloud hosting service.

When it comes to protecting the data from being lost, most providers have a hybrid approach, which means that they have the data backed up physically, as well as on the cloud.

Lean Security provides secured managed cloud hosting and ensures complete protection of all digital assets. Along with hosting, we also provide cloud security assessment, cloud WAF service and protection from all sorts of malware attacks. 

Protect Your Site from Vulnerabilities – Why You Should Have a Scan

Having a professional looking business website, the right SEO procedures and an effective marketing strategy is only half the battle for any online business. If the website isn’t protected from viruses and hacks, the business is at a risk of sinking to the ground within days.

Even with proper safety measures, such as firewalls and SSL certifications, there could be a breach, as threats evolve every day. A system that regularly scans and detects all the vulnerabilities in the system is something that all business websites need.

Common vulnerabilities found in Website Security Scans

Here are several vulnerabilities that are found in a website security scan:

Injection

SQL, OS, LDAP and NoSQL injections are a hacking techniques that put malicious codes into the system and gives the hackers access to the all the data, as well as tricking the user into performing unintended commands.

Broken Authentication

Any vulnerability in applications related to authentication allows hackers to steal personal information and eventually leads to identity theft of the customers.

Cross-site scripting (XSS)

This hack affects the output of the website and may lead to users being directed to other risky sites when they perform certain action.

Security Misconfiguration

This hack is directed to several components of the website, such as platform, framework, sever and database. Hackers can steal and even change information on the website.

Exposure of sensitive data

All websites should have extra protection for sensitive data, such as credit card number, social security numbers and passwords. Any website that exchanges personal data with its customers should have encryption when processing or transferring data. Any vulnerability can lead to identity theft or credit card fraud.

Cross-site forgery (CSRF)

A CSRF attack involves hackers sending users requests from malicious websites and tricks users into authorizing access to sites which have their private information. Since a particular user’s ID is validated in the site, it enables hackers to attack that site.

How to Perform a Website Security Scan

Website scans shouldn’t be done once a year. Businesses should have software and tools in place that regularly scan their website and detect vulnerabilities in the system.

Lean Security offers complete solutions to companies looking to scan their website. We provide managed external vulnerability scanning as well as internal vulnerability scanning to ensure that companies aren’t just secured from external attacks, but attacks from employees as well.

Get in touch with us today to avail our penetration testing and vulnerability scanning services. We also provide secure cloud managed hosting.

Predicting 2018 Cyber Security Solutions

2017 was pretty rough when it comes to cybercrimes. Experts predict that 2018 may be even worse. Cyber-attacks are becoming more advanced and sophisticated as the years go by, and prove to be devastating for some businesses.

This is why it is important for businesses to educate themselves about threats that have higher risk this year and what safety measures are required in order to deal with them.

Increase in Ransomware

Ransomware is the easiest way for hackers to earn some quick cash and is expected to be on the rise in 2018. This is mainly due to the fact that majority of the companies use outdated legacy systems that are easier to hack into.

New methods and programs for ransomware are being developed everyday which many security products aren’t able to detect. These ransomwares do not run on files, but on legitimate programs, like Microsoft Word, by using specific codes and aren’t detected by an antivirus program.

Solution: the best thing that companies can do is to backup all their data into cloud storage and external devices that are patched.

Insider Attacks

IBM’s 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index revealed that almost 60% of the cyber-attacks were carried out by insiders. The more surprising fact is that 75% of those attacks were conducted with malicious intentions, and only 25% were a mistake.

While companies are more focused on protecting themselves from external threats, their biggest risk is from their own employees. HBR predicts that the insider threats are likely to increase even more.

Solution: all companies should have employee monitoring software to know which policies are being violated and what breaches are occurring from the side of the employees. Positive employee behaviour with regards to information security should also be enforced and embedded into the company culture.

IoT Devices

Interconnectivity of devices, such as smartphones, watches, appliances and vehicles, also known as Internet of Things (IoT) is a major risk in 2018.

Smart devices continue to flood the markets, and there aren’t any security regulations to protect any data breach.

Solution: companies need to have thorough security risk assessment procedures in place to identify any vulnerability that may be in the IoT.  When vulnerabilities are identified, only then can the situation be dealt with.

End User Targeting

Hackers will continue to target end-users with more sophisticated methods and phishing scams. Biometric technology in particular will be the highest prize for hackers, and will prove to be just as susceptible to breach as passwords.

Solution: companies will have to increase their spending on security, which also includes cloud security for customers who are switching to cloud, in order to maintain proper security hygiene.

For complete cyber security solutions, get in touch with us. Our services include penetration testing, mobile application penetration testing, WAF managed service, secure cloud managed hosting.

We make sure your company is at the top of its game and ready to deal with any kind of cyber-attack.