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Edgescan Awarded Pen Testing Solution of the Year
October 24, 2019
Winners of Pen Testing Solution of the Year 2019 The Leonardo Royal Hotel, London City by Tower Bridge was the venue for the 2019 Computing Security Awards ceremony. Former England cricket Captain, Chris Cowdrey, was MC for the evening and he was assisted in presenting the awards by Dave Bonner and Brian Wall […]
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Three Weeks to Vulnerability Management Maturity
October 8, 2019
As unbelievable as it sounds, that’s all it takes to drastically improve your organisation’s security posture when using Edgescan. Watch the video below to see how the experts at Edgescan lead you through three main steps in only three weeks. Week 1 – Edgescan Onboarding Onboarding of your assets including web apps, APIs, […]
Read moreEdgescan Launches Attention Index Metric
August 13, 2019
Innovation never ends at edgescan and we are constantly improving value to our clients and making our products and services as good as they can be. Edgescan’s most recent deployment is the Attention Index metric. An asset’s Attention Index is a value between 0 and 100 that indicates how much attention or ‘love’ the […]
Read moreedgescan InfoSecurity Europe 2019 Security Survey Results
July 2, 2019
The Edgescan team recently attended the InfoSecurity Europe 2019 conference in London in June. While there, we took the opportunity to survey the security professionals who came to our stand. The main results are below and the full results of the edgescan Cybersecurity Survey here. For more information Contact edgescan
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edgescan Wins at Tech Excellence Awards 2019
May 24, 2019
On Thursday 23rd May, the 19th annual Tech Excellence Awards event was held at Citywest Hotel in Dublin. More than 600 luminaries from the technology sector gathered to celebrate another year of innovation and commercial success at home and abroad. edgescan had been shortlisted for Managed Security Service Provider of the Year along […]
Read moreCVE-2019-0708 Critical Security Advice from edgescan
May 17, 2019
Windows CVE-2019-0708? This blog explains CVE-2019-0708, how to identify if you are vulnerable and highlights how this type of threat was identified in the edgescan 2019 Vulnerability Stats Report. What is it? A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – when an unauthenticated attacker connects […]
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edgescan is CREST Approved for Penetration Testing
May 8, 2019
BCC Risk Advisory/edgescan is CREST Accredited for Penetration Testing BCC Risk Advisory/edgescan recently applied for accreditation to CREST for our Penetration Testing services. CREST is a not-for-profit accreditation and certification body that represents and supports the technical information security industry. CREST provides internationally recognised accreditation for organisations providing technical security services and professional level certifications […]
Read moreSelecting a Vulnerability Management MSSP Partner
April 10, 2019
Challenges facing MSSP Clients: Many organisations looking for a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) do so in order to save on staffing costs, solve the challenges of staff retention, and assume accuracy and effectiveness improvements. Do you know what you are getting when engaging with a managed security provider? Are they experts in “everything security” […]
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Popular WordPress WAF bypass Zeroday discovered by edgescan
April 9, 2019
WordFence WAF XSS Bypass – CVE-2019-9669 by Anthony Yalcin A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is an application firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks malicious HTTP traffic. By inspecting HTTP traffic, it can prevent attacks related to web application security flaws, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and security misconfigurations. WAFs may come in the […]
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