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#RansomAware: stop shaming, share intelligence and fight back against ransomware attacks

Today, the world is seeing businesses of all sizes suffer devastating attacks from ransomware. In the last few months, massive attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS have disrupted services and earned cybercriminals millions of pounds.

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Announcing Cydea x Good Causes

Since founding Cydea eighteen months ago our mission has been to bring positive security to the world. Some of that is contributing to open source projects or releasing tools free of charge through cydea.

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Hello, World! from cydea.Tools

Introducing cydea.Tools, a collection of the tools we use in our client work and that are now freely available for any infosec team to pick up and accelerate their cyber security programme.

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Racial discrimination is systemic within information security

As I wrote in my weekly infosec newsletter over the weekend: You will, no doubt, have seen some of the horrific coverage of violence used against protesters this week… You may feel detached or removed from events however the issues are systemic and pervasive even in a ‘modern’ field like cyber security.

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Five insights from the Security Watercooler

Last week we trialled an idea for running short video calls for people to share knowledge and experiences of different security topics.

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Join us at the Security Watercooler

This week we are trialling this idea: gather round the (virtual) Security Watercooler to share some knowledge, discuss ideas and chat with peers.

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Cydea has Cyber Essentials

It’s important to practice what you preach. That’s why we’re proud to announce that Cydea has achieved Cyber Essentials certification. Cyber Essentials is a UK government-backed scheme to protect organisations from the most common cyber-attacks.

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Positive Security

Technology has changed the world, and made us better connected than ever before. Over 5 billion people now have a mobile device, public services are getting easier to use, entire new business models have sprung up.

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