Social Engineering
Tuning technology to prevent compromise to our network is important. However, training and educating your staff on best security practices is just as vital to your organization’s safety. At Intrinium, we believe in utilizing Social Engineering to assess the security awareness of employees. We provide a variety of social engineering offerings that can be customized to the needs of your organization. Social Engineering is not a one size fits all model, talk to us today about how we can help.
We offer the following tests:
Email-based Attack
Attempting to entice employees into opening a suspicious correspondence
Spear Phishing
Email and/or phone calls to gain network access
Remote Employee Awareness Exercises
Requesting sensitive information over the phone
On-Site Awareness Exercises
On-site activity where a trained resource tries to penetrate the physical location to gain access to sensitive information or on-premises locations.
We are here to help, contact us today.
mitm6 Pen Testing
Summary: IPv6, we have all seen it, have been forced through subnetting it (Network Engineers, I’m looking at you), but many organizations seem to just not utilize it. While frequently staring into the monotonous output that ipconfig provides, IPv6 sits in the cold...
Best Practices: Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Hardening
By Sahan Fernando - Director, Managed Security - Intrinium As business needs continue to develop, many organizations are turning to devices to effectively provide availability, confidentiality, and integrity for their networks. The buzz around “next-gen” firewalls is...
FortiGate: The Best Firewall Value
By Sahan Fernando –Director, Managed Security– Intrinium To maximize the value of your IT spend, Intrinium recommends the simple and effective architectural design of the Fortinet FortiGate. The FortiGate is a next generation firewall (NGFW) that provides high...
Spear Phishing and What You Need to Know
No matter how seemingly fool-proof your information security protection is, if your employees don’t understand phishing, they could inadvertently help facilitate a breach, train them to be aware of phishing threats and help mitigate risk for your business.
Why, and How, Incident Response Procedures Checklists can Help Your Organization
Using checklists can help your information security incident response team stay focused following the discovery of an attack or other incident, and can help ensure key tasks and steps are completed.
Navigating Information Security for Healthcare
By Augusto Melo, Information Security Analyst – Intrinium Information security is often treated like a health insurance plan; most people are not willing to spend money on insurance because of the investment but are happy they did when an unexpected illness occurs....
Backups and Disaster Recovery
By Samantha Agather, Information Security Analyst – Intrinium Having some form of backup, or copy, of your data is fairly standard practice in IT these days. However, testing these backups is always an afterthought when you need the backup to work right away, such as...
Understanding Incident Response, Planning and Cyber Insurance
In less than one year, we’ve seen whole cities taken out by ransomware with no business continuity or disaster recovery plan in place to bring themselves back up- but it’s not just cities that don’t have a plan for when a catastrophe (digital or physical) hits.
Having a plan to restore business operations will save time, money, and stress, but that’s half the equation. The other half is to practice the plan, make sure all the moving pieces fit together and make sure everything is practical and timely. Enough businesses have spent six digits or more due to not having an incident response plan- set your business and your industry apart.
Incident Response Plans: More Planning, Less Panic
In less than one year, we’ve seen whole cities taken out by ransomware with no business continuity or disaster recovery plan in place to bring themselves back up- but it’s not just cities that don’t have a plan for when a catastrophe (digital or physical) hits.
Having a plan to restore business operations will save time, money, and stress, but that’s half the equation. The other half is to practice the plan, make sure all the moving pieces fit together and make sure everything is practical and timely. Enough businesses have spent six digits or more due to not having an incident response plan- set your business and your industry apart.
Gap Analysis 101
f you have spent any time around information technology or people who work in information security, you have probably heard terms like “risk assessment”, “audit”, and “gap analysis”. Sometimes they are used almost interchangeably. However, each has a specific objective to help stakeholders understand their data environment.
While an audit is used to identify control effectiveness and a risk assessment can identify what controls can be implemented to reduce risk, the gap analysis is designed to do exactly what it states – to identify gaps between the current environment and the organization’s required or desired state. This may be a specific regulatory compliance objective, such as how the organization meets the requirements of the HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules or PCI-DSS. In many cases, an organization may want to be able to claim that they are compliant with an information security standard, such as ISO27001. In other instances, the organization may have developed a roadmap for where they plan to be in the future, and want to identify the current progress and next steps. A gap analysis can provide essential feedback for all three examples.