With each passing year, hackers and cyber criminals of all kinds are becoming more sophisticated, malicious, and greedy conducting brazen and often destructive cyber-attacks that can severely disrupt a company’s business operations. And this is a big problem, because, first and foremost, customers rely on a company’s ability to deliver services or products in a timely manner. Cyber-attacks not only can affect customers’ data, but they can impact service delivery. Companies affected by cyber incidents In one of the recent incidents the UK’s discount retailer The Works has been forced to temporarily shut down some of its stores after a ransomware attack. While the tech…
Author: Sean Tickle
Sean Tickle
Having started his career in the IT sector, Sean has spent the past 5 years focusing on the cyber security space. His grasp of the sector, and knowledge of cyber threat intelligence, quickly propelled him from a Junior Analyst role to an experienced SOC Manager then on to Head of CyberGuard. His primary area of expertise is in building SOC centres and managing operational security teams across a wide variety of skills. Having joined CyberGuard in early 2020, Sean is pivotal to CyberGuard’s mission to become the leading end-to-end cyber security provider in the Midlands. As the business continues to expand into new markets and introduce new solutions to evolving threats, Sean is focused on developing specialist teams tackling specific roles such as malware reversal analysis, as well as delivering bespoke threat intelligence to share with the wider community as we battle against the growing threat from cyber criminals. Areas of expertise: • Building dedicated 24/7 UK SOC Centres • Cyber security operations management • Threat intelligence & analysis
A Security Operations Centre (SOC) is a centralised unit that deals specifically with security issues on behalf of companies, at both an organisational and technical level. Most SOCs comprise of three building blocks: people, processes, and technology designed to manage and enhance an organisation’s security posture. A SOC’s primary goal is to detect and respond to security alerts and, by doing so, ensure an organisation is resilient to emerging threats. The SOC is also responsible for stopping internal security-related negligence or compliance failures and gathering information about user behaviour to help the business identify any potential security issues. While those responsibilities used to be…
