So, here we are in Jan 2021. A new year. Please take a well deserved deep breath. Here at Elemendar (like most of us in cyber) we are busy. Already since our successful raise in December, we have four new full-time team members. This brings us to eleven full time and
59% of companies report being at cybersecurity risk because of staff shortages. This means that cybersecurity departments and cyber analysts are under continual pressure. So how do we achieve more with what we have? The short answer is with automation By automating regular and repetitive tasks, not only can you
The SolarWinds supply chain attack, named SUNBURST by FireEye and Solorigate by Microsoft, has affected a large number of companies such as FireEye, Google, and Microsoft. The attack involved an APT group which compromised an update server for the SolarWinds Orion product line, inserting a malicious backdoor. As our contribution
We've raised! Despite 2020's challenges, we are thrilled to announce that we have closed our first institutional funding round, led by Newable Ventures, at £680,000 (over $0.9m). It’s a privilege to receive this vote of confidence and secure the resources to bring our technology to more customers and help to make us all safer. Our
Let’s all take some deep breaths and keep one eye on a vaccine. It's good news that there is more than one COVID vaccine coming through with seemingly very high success rates. It’s been a hard 2020 but by the end of summer 2021, we hope to be looking forward through
Elemendar News - Issue 15 October brings hot, spring sunshine to Australia and golden leaves across the Northern Hemisphere, with all of us working through this ongoing pandemic. We hope you and yours are all OK. This month's interesting article talks about the “allure of novel threats” and the risk
Despite the disruption and difficulties caused by the pandemic, cybersecurity seems busier than ever. In some ways (for cybersecurity companies) this is a good thing, but for others (the victims of crime) it’s certainly not. Organisations and public services are under siege from ever more sophisticated attackers and the resulting
The Dangerous New Normal Covid19 has created a rich environment for cyber criminals to thrive due to the combination of the shift to working from home, ‘digital transformation’, the boom in e-commerce and rising geopolitical tensions. In this ‘new normal’ everyone is a target. The pandemic has helped reveal that
Our news is a little later than usual this month because I took a week or so holiday. Or a vacation as our US readers will call it. It’s weird taking a holiday at home but I completely recommend it. As we are in Britain, in summer, it was obviously cold,
This article explores how five important emerging trends involving Shadow IT, AI, cybersecurity and regulation could have serious implications for banks and financial institutions and their operational resilience during the post COVID period and expected e-commerce boom. Understanding them is essential to appreciate the complex cybersecurity and operational resilience risks
