While providing consultancy on cyber security, I am often asked a question by bank’s senior IT management — Why our application VAPT should be different…
Month: February 2020
Top 5 Reasons To Perform VAPT Of Your Web Application
I guess most of us know why a vulnerability assessment and penetration testing needs to be performed for web apps or mobile apps. Lately I…
Tips To Implement GDPR For SaaS Based Products
While there are many companies going for or considering GDPR implementation after 25th May 2018, there are a bunch of those who are still contemplating…
Top Threats In Cloud Security
“Top Threats to Cloud Computing”, provides needed background to help organizations in making refined risk management decisions regarding their cloud adoption strategies. #Threat1- Misuse of…
Mobile Apps: Owner’s Pride, Hacker’s Gain
Did you know that a mobile application, on an average has 9 vulnerabilities? Multiply that by the average number of installed applications (26.2) and you…
Vulnerability Assessment – Automated v/s Manual Testing
We all know that there are 3 distinct pillars of software testing – functional testing, security testing and performance testing. There are multiple tools out…
Why Hackers Like The Healthcare Industries
To the question in title, if I was a hacker I would ask myself “why not”?. Its simple really. Hackers always go for the data…
Why Manufacturing Industry is Prone to Ransomware Attacks
2017 was clearly an year of ransomwares. We saw Locky, Petya, GoldenEye, Wannacry and their variants. The cases were pretty straight forward – Machines get…
Learnings From The Cyber Attacks on Banking Industry
Year 2018 was full of cyber-attacks and the most serious news was about well-orchestrated cyber-attacks on banking industry. No matter how much awareness is generated,…
How To Select Your ISO 27001 Implementation Partner
While choosing ISO27001 consultant or implementation partner, usually companies do not know the basis on which they should select the right vendor. Due to lack…