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Monthly Archive for June, 2021

There are two reasons companies get a SOC. Because they must, or because they want to. The first kind is bought to satisfy a regulator, an auditor or a customer. The requirement says ‘continuous security monitoring’, so a service is purchased, preferably the cheapest one that ticks the box. It collects some logs, sends a […]

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I had been looking forward to this vacation for months. Bags packed, plans made. Then the phone rang. A service provider in northern Europe had been hit by ransomware, and not in a small way. More than 50 Active Directory forests, belonging to the provider and its customers, were lost. Encrypted or destroyed, all at […]

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