Posted on April 16, 2020
Secarma has today launched a £500,000 Support Fund to help charities protect themselves from cybersecurity threats. The Charity Support Fund initiative will enable vulnerable charities to strengthen their security at a time where opportunistic criminals are defrauding individuals and organisati...
Read MorePosted on March 31, 2020
In a new mini-series, Secarma’s Technical Director Holly Grace Williams, investigates how recent news events are impacting companies. In part one she takes a look at how we perform effective internal infrastructure tests, remotely. Here at Secarma, we’re all working from home. I’m tra...
Read MorePosted on March 26, 2020
In these unusual and uncertain times, we would like to reassure all of our clients that it is business as usual at Secarma. With a strong workforce, already equipped and prepared to work remotely, it was an obvious decision to station our office staff at home, in a secure and productive environm...
Read MorePosted on September 2, 2019
In part 1 of our 4-part series, we discussed how to evaluate your organisation’s security risks and the steps to creating a risk management strategy, including building a security policy. In part 2 we are looking at how to take that policy and implement technical security protection to ...
Read MorePosted on August 6, 2019
Modern cyber-attacks can target a wide range of aspects of an organisation, so it’s critical to ensure you evaluate each aspect of your security program. We’ve heard a lot about insider threats, such as Sage getting exploited by an employee back in 2016, and about supply chain threats such as N...
Read MorePosted on June 21, 2019
On this week’s episode of Hacked Off, I talked about my love:hate relationship with malicious software. Whilst it’s technically fascinating, the impact it causes to businesses can be significant. In this post I wanted to offer the same information in a different format, but also add some li...
Read MorePosted on June 6, 2019
Just 27% of businesses in the UK reported that staff had attended internal or external training on cybersecurity in the last 12 months* and more often than not, what is being taught is either incomplete or no longer relevant. This talk, which our Technical Director Holly Grace Williams presented...
Read MorePosted on May 31, 2019
On September 7th 2017 Equifax, one of the largest credit agencies in the world, they announced that they had become the victim of a major breach resulting in over 150 million records being stolen. On 8th September their share price plummeted 13.7% and after two weeks it had fallen from 142...
Read MorePosted on April 9, 2019
We are pleased to announce that Shearwater Group PLC, has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire certain business and assets of Pentest Limited, a subsidiary of Secarma Limited. These assets consist of a small number of employees and legacy clients, including the Databridge Software Div...
Read MorePosted on October 31, 2018
A successful cybersecurity assessment starts well before any report is delivered, even before testers are allowed anywhere near a company’s network, application or device. Success all starts at the planning stage. This is especially true of a red team engagement, and with the high...
Read MoreSecarma has today launched a £500,000 Support Fund to help charities protect themselves from cybersecurity threats. The Charity Support Fund initiative will enable vulnerable charities to strengthen their security at a time where opportunistic criminals are defrauding individuals and organisations on a unprecedented level. Technical Director, Holly Grace Williams said “All charities need cybersecurity, no […]
April 16, 2020In a new mini-series, Secarma’s Technical Director Holly Grace Williams, investigates how recent news events are impacting companies. In part one she takes a look at how we perform effective internal infrastructure tests, remotely. Here at Secarma, we’re all working from home. I’m trapped in a home-office myself. I’ve been thinking about how being at […]
March 31, 2020In these unusual and uncertain times, we would like to reassure all of our clients that it is business as usual at Secarma. With a strong workforce, already equipped and prepared to work remotely, it was an obvious decision to station our office staff at home, in a secure and productive environment. As the health, […]
March 26, 2020