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How to watch out for your Infrastructure with a SOC

First thing, a bit of contextualization. What are these blog posts about? The Cyber Blog Times is all about challenges and knowledge acquisition. How? Simple.

Every month, we will share a new Cyber Blog Post. It will address and introduce one of our core services helping you better understand Excellium Services as well as cybersecurity. Furthermore, each blog post will offer you the possibility to challenge yourself and test your information with a small quiz. The more correct answers you get, the more chances you will have to win The Cyber Blog Times final Contest.

Read carefully, be consistent and overall, get involved! Are you ready? Let’s go.

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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. 

 

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Excellium services newsletter : CSSF 20/750 : A new circular for your information security risks’management

On August 25, 2020, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) introduced and published a new circular (CSSF 20/750). This circular is applicable to all credit institutions, all Professionals of the Financial Sector (PFS), all payment institutions, and all electronic money institutions. The main objective is to implement the guidelines of the European Banking Authority EBA/GL/2019/04 relating to the management of risks linked to information and communication technologies (“ICT”) and security.

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2020: Through back to the epic year of the webinar

2020 has been challenging for lots of companies trying to keep afloat despite all the sanitary restrictions. Being present and maintaining customers relationships was not an easy game yet we did it. Through webinars, virtual events, magazine interviews, and so much more at Excellium we made sure to be present and to maintain our yearly activities no matter how much we had to adapt.

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Cybersécurité, talents, COVID-19 – Un monde d’après…

Le groupe Excellium Services emploie actuellement plus de 130 personnes sur les différents marchés où elle opère. Et malgrè un recrutement soutenu cette année 2020, la recherche de talents reste une des priorités pour 2021. Si 2020 aura été une année particulière à bien des égards, les soucis de trouver des talents dans des domaines technologiques comme la cybersécurité restent d’actualité.

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Maxive Cybersecurity, one of the largest MSSPs pure players!

The new holding company will aggregate S21sec (Spain, Portugal, Mexico) and Excellium (Luxembourg, Belgium) under one same holding company, Maxive Cybersecurity.

Certainly,Maxive Cybersecurity is one of the largest MSSPs pure players both in terms of business and specialized personnel. It will offer its customers a wider set of services combining best practices and capabilities from both S21sec and Excellium.

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