Category Archives: Incident Response

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Why Sensitive Data Scanning is so Important Today

July 6, 2020

Organizations have a lot of data; more than we realize, and it continues to grow.

Each day, we create and store all this data in our systems then pack it up and save it somewhere – just to put it away, even temporarily… until it is needed. The challenge is how to easily manage, categorize, and locate specific information in your vast network. Imagine trying to locate your crying child’s favorite blanket you packed away in one of the hundreds of cardboard boxes for your move; you know you packed it, but you need to find it now. (more…)

HALOCK Pandemic Breaches Bulletin: Attackers Hijacking Web Server Resources

June 26, 2020

During the pandemic HALOCK and the information security community have been responding to a significant spike in cyber security incidents. (more…)
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Cyber Security Case Study: When Ransomware Attacks and You Don’t Have Documented Data Inventory

June 25, 2020

HALOCK partnered with a Manufacturing company to recover data exfiltrated from a ransomware attack (more…)
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Cyber Security Case Study: Ransomware at a Manufacturing Company

June 11, 2020

HALOCK contained and eradicated a ransomware attack on a manufacturing company’s internal assets and set a wholistic plan to mitigate future risk through enhanced MFA, policies, and training. (more…)
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A Summary of DBIR 2020 – Where the Data Breach World is Today and How to Prepare for IT

June 1, 2020

DBIR 2020The annual 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) was recently released and we would like to summarize some of the key trends found in the report. The Report takes a granular look at threat actors (bad guys) and the tactics they used to carry out the breaches and security incidents of the last year. (more…)
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HALOCK Pandemic Breaches Bulletin

May 20, 2020


Common Causes for the Recent Major Spike in Security Incidents

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DARK WEB MONITORING: What you need to know and how to keep your data safe

December 20, 2019

Your data could be on the dark web. The dark web is essentially a marketplace for cybercriminals. If your data has been compromised, the dark web is the place where it is traded. (more…)

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RANSOMWARE ON THE RISE (again)

December 19, 2019

The top 6 things you should do right now to prepare and defend against a ransomware attack.

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Why You Need to Take an Active Role in Your AWS Cloud Environment – One of the Largest Data Breaches

August 9, 2019

CLOUD ENVIRONMENT: The Capital One incident is one of the largest data breaches of all time, involving 100 million credit card applications and 140,000 Social Security numbers;  the bank’s stock market price took an immediate hit as company executives and IT personnel began scrambling to implement the firm’s incident response plan. (more…)

How Prepared Are You for a Cyber Security Incident?

May 24, 2019

In the past decade we have seen companies defined by how their leadership responded to a cyber security incident.  The most prominent incident is a data breach, which is becoming a too common occurrence, involving billions of people. (more…)

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