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A Dummy’s Guide to ACSC E8 Assessment Approach

Australian Cyber Security Centre’s (ACSC) Strategy to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents provides a prioritised list of mitigation strategies to assist organisations in protecting their systems and their crown jewels against a range of adversaries. The mitigation strategies advised by ACSC vary and can be customised based on the risk profile, the industry sector and the adversaries the organisation is most concerned with.

The Singapore Privacy Landscape

In a world full of costly data breaches and invasive privacy incidents, Singapore is not immune. It’s not just the big threats such as cyber criminals, nation-state hackers and cyber espionage—even simple employee mistakes can end up exposing private data and costing your organisation millions.

To combat the growing wave of privacy and cybersecurity issues, Singapore passed the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2012. These regulations are complemented by the Data Protection Trustmark (DPTM), a voluntary certification that helps organisations demonstrate that they have appropriate protection and privacy practices in place to guard their personal data.

CVE-2020-3977: VMware Horizon DaaS Broken Authentication (MFA Bypass)

Not long ago, I assisted a client of ours with a penetration test of their VMware Horizon remote access solution and discovered a vulnerability affecting how it handles Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). As a result, with a compromised user account password, I could gain access to the organisations internal network from the internet, bypassing the MFA requirement. In this blog, I’ll provide a high-level summary and explain how I identified and exploited the vulnerability.

Long-Term Cyber Hygiene Practices | Privasec

Ensure business continuity via long-term Cyber Hygiene practices

Written by Breton Chan, Privasec’s Marketing Executive

How prepared is your business for upcoming challenges in the digital landscape?

In recent research data released by the Ponemon Institute and IBM Security, cyber crimes accounted for 18.6% of all crime in Singapore. The average cost of a data breach per organisation in the ASEAN bloc sits at about S$2.7m, with the time taken to identify and subsequently contain an attack clocking in at 287 days; this is an increase from 2019, when the average cost and response time were about S$2.6m and 259 days respectively.

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