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CLOUD SECURITY SOLUTIONS AND REGULATIONS FOR BFSI

In the midst of digital transformation and the adoption of new technologies, cybersecurity issues in the Fin-tech and BFSI sectors continue to evolve. Malicious and fraudulent intentions are increasingly targeting and exploiting commercial banks, credit unions, stock brokerage firms, asset management firms, and insurance companies that allow digital transactions through web, mobile applications or alternate means. Thus, a collaboration with Regulators and Security providers shall allow the BFSI to remain on top of compliance changes, changing regulations, and bringing justice to the security and privacy requirements..  

Digital Operational Resilience and Regulatory Compliance for Financial Institutions And the emerging cyber security trends in the UK, EU, and India 

Cyber Security Associates (CSA) in the UK and the EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) have respectively developed a cyber security certification framework and blueprint for a rapid emergency response to address the security concerns and create defensive measures to respond appropriately and timely to any online threats. The European Council has further initiated measures to counter threats arising from the new 5G networks.  

Compliance and Security - A perfect symbiosis

Banking, Financial Services and Insurance companies deal with voluminous amount of data that has become increasingly difficult to store and access. Cloud computing provides enhanced security with the much-needed secure environment to easily manage data. What’s more it helps in detecting fraud which is rampant in the financial sector.

What does the Infopercept collaboration with the open-source automation platform Shuffle intend to achieve?

Global Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) Infopercept Consulting has announced a collaboration with open-source automation platform Shuffle. Infopercept has a rapidly expanding presence across India, Africa, the US, and the Middle East, as well as other geographies.

Adversaries Love Single Layered EDR, but They Will Hate Infopercept's Defense-in-Depth Protection

Gone are the days when basic anti-virus was considered as total security. It has since then shifted to having AI/ML, Detection and Response in End Point Security.

Additional AWS EventNames

Using Wazuh and CloudTrail, we can reduce the signal-to-noise ratio and this is how we will get the AWS EventNames events in the security events and catch if any suspicious event that has occurred.

Defence in Depth Extended Detection and Response to Combat Multi-layered Attacks

Gone are the days when basic anti-virus was considered as total security. It has since then shifted to having AI/ML, Detection and Response in End Point Security.

Onboarding Imperva WAF to Wazuh

Using Wazuh and CloudWatch, we can analyze AWS RDS events of high relevance to keep track of everything that happens in your Amazon Relational Database Service. You can do this for Audit logs, General logs and Slow Query logs as well.

Onboarding Sophos XDR Logs to Wazuh

Monitoring AWS RDS logs with Wazuh

Onboarding PAM Tool Senhasegura to Wazuh

We've integrated Senhasegura events with Wazuh in this article. We can use Wazuh to analyze Senhasegura events to keep track of access events in your environment and detect any suspicious behavior. We can simply monitor the complicated incoming data using numerous visualizations and dashboards.

Sending Alerts to Microsoft Teams from Wazuh

With the help of the Wazuh's Integrator tool, we are able to connect Wazuh with other external softwares. With the help of that, we can get the most important alerts directly to our tTeams channel where we can get notified and start taking actions immediately.

Incident Response and Plan

Incident response and prevention and dedicated personnel must be identified and allocated these roles. This would put less pressure on the workload of

Identity Management in Cloud Security

Identity management defines the authenticity, accessibility and identifying individual user or group of users by associating rights and restrictions with the specific identity.

Best Cybersecurity practises in BFSI

Cybersecurity in BFSI / Cybersecurity in banking & Financial sector has become a big factor to maintain the data security and information integrity for the given reason. As banks are becoming more and more a data gold mine for a vast variety of information like confidential personal information, financial information,

Strategies Used in Deception Technology

With the entire world becoming more technology driven, a lot of data and information is being stored online.

DECEPTION TECHNOLOGY FOR EARLY THREATS AND REDUCING RISKS

All computer systems are susceptible to virus attacks. Even government websites and highly coded top military sites are not immune to it.

Advanced Deception with Email Fraud Attacks

Deception plays a very significant role in the world of war. Deception occurs more in cyber-warfare than in any other field. The reason could be the ease of impersonation in a virtual world.

7 Security Guidelines to Stay Cyber Safe Throughout Your Vacation

Let’s face it! The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on our physical as well as mental well-being! Now it's time for a well deserved break.

Additional Fixes for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures on the Apache Software Foundation Released

Reducing Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Response (MTTR) for Apache HTTP Server CVE-2021-41773 & CVE-2021-42013 Vulnerabilities

Atrocity by Ransomware Gangs Through Ransomware Malware

Ransomware defined: Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts the victims files. The hacker then demands a ransom to return or restore access to the stolen data for a price.

Deception Technology - Using Remote Workforce

Deception Technology is a rising class of digital security safeguard. It can distinguish, investigate, and guard against zero-day and propelled assaults, frequently and continuously.

Stay Safe This Holiday Season With These 7 Cybersecurity Tips

Phishing, a type of social engineering, is defined as the act of sending out fraudulent emails to unsuspecting victims and inducing them to reveal their confidential information such as passwords or credit card details.

Automation and Integration

With the increase in the usage of digital products, the security of the users has also increased. Solutions arrive continuously at the market,

Intigrating AI with Cyber Security

Artificial Intelligence is a branch of science that stimulates the human intelligence processes with the help of machines.

Phishing - A Game of Deception

Decoding what 3S IP is and how it can be used

It is a well known fact that cyber threats, attacks and breaches keep changing their attack styles which has led to a full scale Digital Warfare. The pandemic has worsened the situation.

How to choose the best Cybersecurity Company, A complete checklist and guide

We are fast moving towards living in a completely digitized world. With the advancement of technology into every foray of business, companies are moving their businesses online.

Free Open Source Software

Infopercept advocates and partners with “Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)” to create freedom for Cybersecurity.

The Complete Cyber Security Guide

Cyber Security is defined as the complete protection of computer systems both hardware and software, information, and infrastructure from theft, damage or unauthorised access.

Top 5 Challenges Faced by Security Operations Centers SOCs

In the Digital Warfare against Cyber threats, the SOC (security operations center) in any company or organization is the battle station and all the security experts and analysts play the role of “FRONTLINE WARRIORS”.

Invinsense Cybersecurity Platform

Growingly we have started observing that there is no one integrated platform that addresses one of the key problems faced by any organization today;

Invinsense Green Secure Optimize Strengthen Blog

Infopercept believe that in any Organization, for strong and sturdy Cyber Security, needs an common integrated platform and Infopercept introduces G-SOS(Green- Secured Optimize Strengthen) platform which is designed mainly on strong three pillars: People, Processes and Technology.

Offensive Defensive Strategies

Offensive Defensive Strategies against all odds (ODS) is the approach which is implemented with the thought process of Tactic Techniques and Procedures used by the Adversaries.

Red Team and Breach and Attack Simulation

Infopercept always endeavors to keep on innovating the strategy to combat this Digital Warfare. Be it a war or digital warfare, we have to keep on innovating the strategies to protect the assets from the adversaries. Now we shall be talking about the strategy or tool, of Red Teaming and Bas integration. As a strong well experienced MSSP, Infopercept will define it as the Integration of Red Teaming & Breach & Attacks Simulation.

What is OODA in Cyber Security?

In this Digital Warfare , Infopercept as an **Ally** to our clients , has developed unique “Invinsense Strategies” to combat the battle of cyber security.

Why only an MSSP can bring real integration of security products that vendors talk about?

The evolution of the cybersecurity industry is a response to the kind of cyberattacks businesses have had.

Cyber Security Case Finance Company

We, Infopercept, are a leading Managed Security Services Provider. We advise our clients regarding measures to beef up their cyber security.

Importance of Deception Technology in Healthcare Industry

Client Information and Data Security is an utmost requirement in today's information age.

COUNTER FINTECH ATTACKS WITH DECEPTION TECHNOLOGY

Fintech, short for Financial Technology, is changing the way financial services are rendered in companies today.

Case study In Dairy Industry

Securing data in a Dairy Industry is very essential as it includes the data of LiveStock , assets, applications, hardware, software and overall integration of the same.

CYBER SECURITY CASE STUDY FOR ACQUISITION OF PORT

A port in a typical geographical location plays an important role in many sectors such as the industrial sector, transport sector etc.

SIEM Deployment

Cyber-attacks are a threat to any and all types of businesses. It keeps changing its attack form in terms of range and quality.

Digital Warfare: Are you winning?

Cyber wars big or small have an irreversible impact on businesses and industry and can even pull down governments if crucial military information is leaked to a hostile country.

Accelerate Business Prospects through Security Optimization

In this rapidly changing world powered by IT, finding network solutions to secure your data and infrastructure can be both challenging and exciting.

Journey from Stone Age warfare to Digital age warfare- "Digital Warfare"

Warfare has undergone a paradigm shift from Stone Age to Digital Age – “Digital Warfare”. Just imagine that the Stone Age had knocked the door of the Earth 2.5 million years before 10,000BC!!

In House Security Optimization

Have you ever been asked by your manager to give them a specific security report (HEALTH CHECK) on your current SAP landscape? Have your system been audited or going to be audited and you want to make sure

How Moving target defense Strategies help organizations Reduce RISK

The primary objective of any organization’s security team is to reduce the risks involved in their processes. ISO-31000 standard defines risk as “the effect of uncertainty on the possibility of achieving the organization’sobjective”.

Importance of Secure Orchestration, Automation and Response in SOC

SOAR (Secure Orchestration, Automation and Response) is an integral part of the SOC. It works in partnership with SIEM (Security Information and Event Management).

Importance of System Information Event Management in SOC

SIEM collects data logs, security alerts and events and places it in server. The SOC team at Infopercept focuses on continually monitoring, analysing, investigating and responding to the threats.

Importance of EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) in SOC (Security Optimization Center)

Anti virus software programs have been largely successful in detecting malware until now, as the anti virus solutions largely depended on signature-based detection and prevention.

Improving and Upgrading Soc With Deception Technology

The Secure Optimization Center (SOC) is primarily responsible for anticipating and minimizing the attacks on the organization’s cyber network.

Deception Technology - Defence As An Offence

Deception Technology as a feasible method for successful and intelligent post-breach defense in modern information security. But it comes with misconceptions as with any disruptive technology.

Security Optmization Center & How It Helps

Security Optimization Center has the right balance of security experts & professionals who are committed 24/7 to maintain your organization’s security level through the various security levels

Cyber security in Banking Sector

I.T revolution has brought significant changes in banking sector, be it online transactions, fund transfers, mobile wallets, electronic clearing services are some of

Common Use Cases for SOC for Different Sec teams

Use Cases help an organization to more efficiently identify and manage common reiterative events and function, as well to identify a particular situation for a product or service where they can be utilized efficiently.

Casual Approach during Travel – Cyber Attacks in Travel Industry

Do you know travel and transportation industry is the 2nd most targeted industry for cyber-attacks in the year 2018

Did you know your Whatsapp account can be hacked with a single video call

We at Infopercept believe in the adge that “prevention is always better than the cure” and that it is always better for anyone not just be reactionary and wait for a cybersecurity attack or breach to occur and cost them tremendously in terms of Business Operations

Understanding Swagshop

It was actually a fairly easy box and was based on the Linux machine. Getting the root flag was much easier compared to the user flag.

Learn to work with Writeup Box

It was a bit tricky box given that it was categorized into the easy level. Getting the user flag was pretty straightforward but

A Guide to Security lingo

In our modern world where mostly everything is networked in some way or the other, security has become a major worldwide

What constitutes a Secure Cloud System

Cloud Service providers furnish the services from which Cloud Admin can implements the security. It doesn’t matter what kind of security defenses the cloud provider has in place if the customers don’t protect their own networks, users and applications.

Working with Machine Netmon

It was actually a fairly easy box and was based on windows machine. Getting the user flag was damn easy and the root flag wasn’t that difficult as well

Understanding the attack

In this article we will be understanding the arp spoof attack which is basically a type of man in the middle attack

XSS Vulnerabilities on Monstra CMS 3.0.4.

This article is about the XSS vulnerabilities that I had found out on Monstra CMS 3.0.4.

Things you must know before diving into information security

Ever thought of starting your career in the security field??

How Machine Curling works

It was actually a fun box and the level of the box was stated as easy. Getting the user flag was tougher than getting the root flag

Breaching the Windows Server

EternalBlue is nothing but an exploit that was actually developed and used by the National Security Agency (NSA)

Apache Struts2 Code Execution Exploit

Apache Struts is a very popular open source web application framework that is used to develop Java-based web applications

Bypassing the LibSSH Authentication

LibSSH is a C library that enables you to write a program that uses the SSH protocol. With it, you can remotely execute programs

Working with Haystack

Stack is an acronym for three open source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Together, they form a log management platform.

Finding Vulnerability in Dell Webpagex

According to the internet, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are a type of injection

A guide to Jarvis

Jarvis will be offered to automakers as a pay-as-you-go, cloud-based service. Once an automaker signs up, Jarvis can scan any piece of software that may go into a new car to detect possible vulnerabilities.

Cyberthreats in Travel Industry

Travel industry therefore needs to employ end - to - end security, utilizing and leveraging the cybersecurity techniques and AI onboarding solutions to effectively combat these risks.

Introduction to Networked Box

We will go through the walkthrough of machine Networked which retired very recently.

Importance of proper configuration of AWS S3

About the methodology or the procedure to test for misconfigurations in the target client’s AWS S3 buckets

Executing the Attack

In this article we will see how to carry out an arp spoof attack which will lead to sniffing packets along with stealing

Heist an Introduction

Heist is been given the easy rating, but we think it was pretty tricky and a bit difficult.

Cybersecurity 2020 – The Human Machine & Software element

Cybersecurity now requires a more holistic approach with you having to ascertain and manage the Software, Hardware & Human element.

Cybersafe

A recent research paper was released which predicted that - “The Largest Cyberattack in History Will Happen Within Six Months”

Moving Target Defense - An Unfair Advantage in Cyber Security

The current game of hide-n-seek between the attackers and defenders in cybersecurity is unfair.

What is RED TEAM

For many organizations finding vulnerabilities in their security architecture can be a difficult by itself and relying on internal audits to find the various loopholes and vulnerabilities in their currently

What is Predictive Analysis

Predictive analysis is done by gathering and reviewing the available historical information, machine learning, & computing to predict what is the likelihood of an even happening in the future.

Security Challenges in Blockchain

Security Challenges in Blockchain is quickly growing from its roots as a cryptocurrency and making breakthrough in Governments and various industries like healthcare, real estate and transportation. As bitcoin approaches its highest price of 2019 it is safe to say that the strongest move for blockchain is yet to come

8 Components for a Good Security Solution Architecture

A Security Solution Architecture involves a lot of tools Like – SIEM, SOAR, MDR and other security tools working in conjunction to achieve the bigger overall security picture of the organization.

Evolution of Application Security

Evolution of Application Security has come over a long way from its origins to where it is now. The evolution of Application security and its history can be dated back to at least 1980s. From its rudimentary origins it grew parallel and in direct response to the various contemporary

Malware behind the largest DDOS attack (Mirai Botnet)

Mirai Botnet came into light in October 2016 when it was responsible for a DDOS attack that took down many large website

3 Common Cyber Security Loopholes

Most of the IT companies nowadays opt and work in an AGILE Environment, where the development process changes according to dynamic changes felt in the needs and requirements of the customers.

Cybersecurity Challenges in Healthcare

In recent years, the one industry that is quite on the bloom leveraging the technological advances coming through its industry is the healthcare sector. As the healthcare industry makes it move towards more digitalization

AWS Security’s Best Practices to reduce Risks

Amazon detects fraud and abuse, and responds to incidents by notifying customers. Customers are also responsible for the application hosted in AWS & security configurations done in AWS services.