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Thycotic for securing passwords, and free tools
Recently SSS has partnered with Thycotic to bring their great credential protection and management tools to our customers. Below is a brief intro to how tools from Thycotic help organisations, including links to two free tools. Privileged account passwords and credentials for domain admin accounts, root accounts, and superuser accounts are the preferred targets for hackers.Exploiting vulnerabilities among […]
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Sophos Intercept X to fight zeroday threats and ransomware
Sophos have introduced a new tool – called Intercept X – to fight zeroday threats and in particular combat ransomware. One of the clever features of Intercept X is that it keeps a shadow copy of any files being encrypted on a workstation, and if it determines the process doing the encrypting is bad, it kills […]
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Chrome to show HTTP sites as not secure
Google have announced a new policy regarding how Chrome is changing the trust indications and warnings when a website is not using HTTPS. Bruce Morton, Director of Certificate Technology and Standards for Entrust Datacard has published a blog on this… Always-On SSL should be deployed to prevent the “Not secure” warning Website owners who do […]
SSS only NZ partner with Gemalto HSM certified engineers
SSS is pleased to announce that we are currently the only Gamalto partner in New Zealand with Gemalto-certified engineers in HSMs and Key Management. Our Security Consulting business unit continues to expand both in terms of the number of skilled consultants on our team and in terms of the number of industry certifications they hold. The […]
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All SSS NZ SecureIT clients now running at SEEMail V3.1
SSS has recently completed upgrading all its New Zealand government clients using SecureIT for SEEMail to the latest version and they are all now running at SEEMail V3.1. Due to the large number of clients we have using SecureIT for SEEMail in New Zealand, this has been a large programme of work for us, and […]
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StripIT to protect against Macros in Word & Excel
We are seeing a significant increase in demand for our StripIT solution that neutralises active content borne malware in Word and Excel documents. A recent article in ZDNet discusses this very issue:Title: Australian organisations suffer ransomware because they make basic mistakesURL: http://www.zdnet.com/article/australian-organisations-suffer-ransomware-because-they-make-basic-mistakes/Author: StilgherrianExcerpt: “It’s a surprising answer, and scary. We know that ransomware attacks are on […]
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SSS Wins Best Collaborative Partner Award from Entrust Datacard.
SSS was successful at the recent Entrust Datacard Asia Pacific & Greater China Partner Conference –taking home the award for “Best Collaborative Partner”. The award is recognition for the investment SSS has made in staff, training and support for the Entrust Datacard product set and the success we have had with several large projects. In […]
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SSS now on three of the AoG ICT Security and Related Services Panel Categories.
The three Categories that we are now in are:- In addition to the above panels, SSS has been appointed to the AoG Consultancy Service Panel in the sub-category of Assurance as a Tier 3 provider. SSS being on these panels allows a wide range of Government agencies to access our security consulting services under the […]
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Quick Tip: Ensure AV is installed and up to date
Sounds obvious, but this can be surprisingly difficult! For larger organisations it can be quite difficult to properly manage the full decommissioning of old endpoints from the environment, and especially from the AV console. A consequent problem is that if your console is cluttered with old endpoints that you think are probably no longer on […]
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