Are your applications potential trojan horses?

Find out if your web applications have security flaws with the Barracuda Vulnerability Manager for free. Use this standalone, no-cost service to get a comprehensive report that outlines any vulnerabilities uncovered and provides recommendations for remediating them.

  • Scan for web application security flaws such as those on the OWASP Top 10.
  • Get a comprehensive report with remediation recommendations.
  • No installation, 2 minutes to set up, easy to use, and completely free.

Don’t give cybercriminals a chance to exploit hidden vulnerabilities. With Barracuda Vulnerability Manager you can get a customised report in minutes. The Complete IT Systems team can then work with you to review the findings and take the necessary steps to remediate.

Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

How to secure BYOD devices

Organisations running Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies can benefit from several advantages for their staff and their productivity. It also carries risks that need to be managed.

For the National Cyber Security Centre, the advantages include:

  • Allowing users to use devices they are comfortable with and are not burdensome to carry
  • Reduced device acquisition and management costs for the business
  • Perfect for flexible and remote working
  • Increased productivity and ‘working on the go’

In short, BYOD refers to the trend of employees using their personal devices to connect to their companies’ networks and accomplish their daily endeavours.

BYOD security risks

For all its upsides, the NCSC cites the following challenges with BYOD:

  • Ensuring personally owned devices and their owners comply with company policies and procedures
  • Increased support for a wide range of device types and operating systems
  • Protecting corporate data
  • Protecting corporate infrastructure
  • Protecting the personal privacy of the end-user/device owner
  • Ensuring legal compliance and meeting contractual obligations
Solving the BYOD security challenge

This whitepaper aims to cast some light on the intricacies and cybersecurity challenges posed by BYOD policies in companies.

Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems are highly skilled in Heimdal’s solutions. We can offer free trials, or tailored demonstrations of the solution. We can also discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology would work for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

 

The new ABCs of application security

Over the past few years, the threats to applications have multiplied, and newer, more dangerous attack vectors have emerged.

Read our partner Barracuda’s complimentary e-book ‘the new ABCs of application security’ for an in-depth look at three critical attack vectors – API vulnerabilities, bot attacks, and client-side attacks – as well as how you can fill the gaps in your application security and protect your business against these evolving threats. Discover:

  • The challenges of deploying and defending APIs, a prime target for attackers because of their direct access to critical data
  • The importance of detecting and blocking advanced persistent bots that perform account takeover, credential stuffing, and other malicious attacks
  • The technologies being used to fill client-side security gaps and successfully protect against supply-chain attacks

Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

Inboxes are an easy-in for hackers. Run FREE email threat scans

As phishing attacks become increasingly sophisticated, there could be all kinds of threats lurking in employees’ inboxes. Even the more cyber-aware members of staff can fall victim to ever more convincing phishing emails.

Threats can take even the most clued up users unawares, including spam emails, data exfiltration, scamming, domain impersonation, extortion, conversation hijacking, malware/ransomware, URL phishing, account takeover, spear phishing, brand impersonation, lateral phishing, and compromising business email systems.

The Barracuda Email Threat Scanner inspects emails in your organisation to discover threats hiding in your employees’ inboxes. The expert team here at Complete IT Systems can guide you through the process and ensure that inboxes are not a weak point for hackers to exploit in your cyber defences.

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Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

Patch management – closing the security loophole

Patch management is increasingly vital. As cyber-attacks on British businesses soar, 86% of reported vulnerabilities enter devices from third-party applications.

Compounding the problem for IT is that running numerous deployment tools often create confusion, and slow down reaction times. This can open your organisation to potentially devastating malware and ransomware attacks.

According to UK government research in 2022, only  38% of organisations have a policy for patch management. As a result, patches can be missed, which can lead to vulnerabilities that can be exploited by cybercriminals.

Patch management – the importance

The sheer volume of third-party apps organisations use on a daily basis makes it next to impossible to manually manage. Keeing track of all of the relevant patches is undoubtedly difficult. Not to mention that critical updates have to be applied within 14 days of their release. This is an alarming situation, especially considering that 86% of reported vulnerabilities enter devices from third-party applications.

As the UK government’s Cyber Essentials programme recommends, “applying updates (a process known as patching) is one of the most important things you can do to improve security. Operating systems, software, devices and apps should all be set to ‘automatically update’ wherever this is an option. This way, you will be protected as soon as the update is released.”

Automating patch management

Automating the patch management process enables you to avoid the disastrous impacts of serious, yet preventable attacks.

That is why the Heimdal Security’s Patch & Asset Management solution was born. Heimdal’s solution comes with all the bells and whistles an IT manager needs in order to set up an efficient and secure AMS environment. This scalable, flexible, and intuitive solution can handle both Microsoft and third-party software on the spot. It can also be used from anywhere in the world and according to any schedule.

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The Heimdal solution

Heimdal allows you to proactively manage assets and mitigate vulnerabilities, all at the click of a button. Heimdal Patch & Asset Management and its optional Infinity Management module provide not only automated vulnerability management but also a full Software Asset Management. Benefit from:

  • A consistent overview of essential software, its security status, and all the tools necessary to prove compliance.
  • Granular control over your software environment by fully automating the third-party patching. This way, internal resources are freed up to focus on more pressing matters or value-add tasks.
  • Administrators also gain the unique ability to deploy custom, in-house software and patches that are not available in the Heimdal Patch & Asset Management catalogue.
Find out more

Find out the essentials of patch management and more about Heimdal in this 45-minute webinar.

Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems are highly skilled in Heimdal’s solutions. We can offer free trials, or tailored demonstrations of the solution. We can also discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology would work for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

 

 

 

 

Get a FREE cyber resilience assessment

In the modern era, data is everything, and everything is data. Would your business be able to thrive, or even survive if you lost everything?

Absolute resiliency or security is absolutely impossible, so you need to have a strategy for cyber resilience in place. Doing so gives you the ability to continuously deliver intended outcomes despite any adverse event or attacks. This makes doing everything you can to prevent downtime and attacks, plus minimise the impact and potential loss when an event does happen all the more vital.

Building your cyber resilience strategy

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Resiliency Assessment provides a bridge mechanism to assess your current state of resiliency. It helps to identify gaps, strengths, and weaknesses against best practice requirements based on the NIST CSF. With references to other industry-recognised standards & frameworks such as ISO, COBIT, ISA, Council on Cyber Security, etc, all bases are covered.

Outcomes

By completing the Cyber Resiliency Assessment Tool (CRAT), you can:

  • Identify blind spots and recommended areas for improvement
  • Discover the untapped potential of various existing solutions, integrations and overlaps that can be fine-tuned
  • Build a customised cyber resilience strategy to fit your vision & mission
The assessment questions

The questionnaire only takes about two hours, and the team at Complete IT Systems can help guide you through it. The key things to know:

  • It features a series of simple Yes / No questions to assess your current resilence state.
  • The assessment is vendor agnostic but funded by IBM.
  • It’s non-invasive, with no need to install anything or run scripts.
  • There’s no obligation to act on all or any of the results.
What you’ll get

Once we’ve completed the questionnaire with you, you’ll get the following deliverables:

  • Detailed assessment report
  • Management presentation
  • Roadmap of recommended improvements & considerations
  • Scheduled follow-ups to discuss the findings

Ready to get started?

Drop us your contact details, and a member of our team will be in touch to get things started!

Find out more

As IBM partners, Complete IT Systems have the skills and resources to help your business implement the best solutions for the modern workplace.

For more information on how Complete IT Systems and IBM can help, call 01274 396 213 or email .

 

Close security vulnerabilities – in less than 2 minutes!

With malware attacks becoming more ingenious and exploiting application vulnerabilities to get access into key systems, it’s important to up your defences.

To keep apps from exposing your organisation to cyber attacks, Heimdal updates them automatically to block 85% of attack angles and makes updates hassle-free!

To ensure that malware doesn’t infect devices in the first place, Heimdal scans all incoming and outgoing internet traffic. When it spots a connection to a malicious website or server, it blocks it. This way, malware can’t reach your systems and damage them. Traffic filtering also blocks malware from collecting your data and transferring it to cyber criminal infrastructure.

Heimdal does all this and more in a split second with its intelligence and predictive abilities. Find out more in this short video:

Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems are highly skilled in Heimdal’s solutions. We can offer free trials, or tailored demonstrations of the solution. We can also discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology would work for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

 

Spice up your cloud storage with Wasabi

Aside from being a tasty snack for those of us with a bit of a spicy taste, Wasabi is also – in its own words – the hot cloud storage company that do it less expensively and faster than the competition.

Wasabi’s hot cloud storage is insanely cost effective and fast cloud object storage for any purpose. It is fast to write, fast to read and instantly available. By keeping storage simple with a universal storage product that satisfies nearly all cloud storage requirements, you can revolutionise your cloud storage strategy.

Read this short introduction into Wasabi to discover:

  • What is hot cloud storage
  • Reducing tiers
  • Pricing options
  • And more

➡️Download the 2-page guide.

Find out more

As Wasabi partners, Complete IT Systems have the skills and resources to help your business implement the best solutions for the modern workplace. For more information on how Complete IT Systems and Wasabi can help, call 01274 396 213 or email .

Storage made simple

Businesses are being challenged to optimise IT and drive growth without sacrificing performance, quality or security. With the IBM FlashSystem family, you have everything you need to address transformation and increase cyber resilience.

Designed to deliver industry-leading performance and cost efficiency, FlashSystem all-flash and hybridflash arrays simplify hybrid cloud storage and shorten cyberattack recovery time. Each member of the family provides enterprise-grade capabilities, but they’re not just for big businesses. Use this eBook to learn how IBM FlashSystem helps organisations protect, manage and extend data to the cloud with less complexity and lower costs.

Find out more

As IBM partners, Complete IT Systems have the skills and resources to help your business implement the best solutions for the modern workplace.

The power of Lenovo ThinkBooks with Intel® Core™ i7 processors

The powerful Lenovo ThinkBook devices with Intel® Core™ i7 processors offer unparalleled productivity, security, and collaboration for modern businesses. Equipped with innovative technologies, smarter features, and advanced security, these flexible devices enhance user experiences while tackling hybrid work challenges with ease.

Find out more about how the Lenovo ThinkBook 13s Gen 4 IAP with Intel® Core™ i7 processors are:

  • Designed for the modern professional
  • Offer next-gen productivity and dependability
  • Optimised for convenience

Want to find out more?

As Lenovo Gold PC Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on how the devices and solutions and could be effectively deployed in your business.

To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.