In recent years, ransomware attacks evolved from simple and basic encryption malware to a complex and organized industry. With this evolution, attacks have now a far more important impact on business continuity and company reputation.
How to test your defence in-depth with the Assume Breach approach
For the past two years, we observed growing requests of companies towards realistic tests based on breach and crisis simulations. Indeed, the classic model shows its limits when an application or a network has been tested many times. One can be pretty sure that the first line is secured, but another one can also be completely blind about what could happen next if it is not the case.
How to React to a Cyber Incident?
Welcome back to our second article from The Cyber Blog Times addressing cyber incidents.
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How to beat your vulnerabilities? Time to fight back!
The fight against vulnerabilities is a constant battle, a real race between hackers and organizations trying to keep them out. Unfortunately, organizations happen to lose.
Vulnerability Management, the solution you can no longer do without
Qualys and Excellium join forces to provide organizations with the ability to manage their vulnerabilities from asset management to remediation with a contextualized approach. Read more
Newsletter: SWIFT CSP: A change to reinforce the security of the global banking system
Secure the SWIFT Network
In 2016, users of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), Bangladesh, Vietnam and Ecuador suffered cyber-attacks and had huge financial losses. Due to the exponential increase of cyber-attacks and frauds against financial institutions, the same year, SWIFT introduced its own Customer Security Programme (CSP). The main goal of this programme is to ensure and improve the security level of each SWIFT customer to bring more confidence in the SWIFT’s network. To follow this aim, SWIFT proposed three guidelines: Secure your environment, Know and Limit Access, Detect and Respond.
How to watch out for your Infrastructure with a SOC
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Excellium services newsletter : The 4 must-know components to implement a SOC
For an independent company, starting its own Security Operation Center might sound like a good idea. However, it turns out that it often presents a huge challenge with very mixed results. Thus, we will review some of the themes that can lead to internal failures of SOC projects based on our customer’s feedback.
Password hashing: Be careful about what you hash!
Context of the hashing issue
During a web assessment, Excellium’s Intrusion & AppSec team audited a PHP application where users passwords were stored using the bcrypt hashing algorithm. As bcrypt 1https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet.htmlis still a valid and recommended algorithm to hash passwords, compromising passwords 2https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/tree/master/Passwords/Common-Credentials should not be an easy task. However, sometimes, the devil is in the details.
Excellium Services, des cyber services à la belge !
Après plusieurs années d’expertise au Luxembourg, Excellium Services a décidé de traverser la frontière et d’étendre ses activités en Belgique. Un choix stratégique mais également un choix de coeur. Read more