Reliaquest UK Limited

Phishing attacks have always been a huge issue for organizations to defend against. The Verizon DBIR for 2020 shows that 22% of all data breaches in the last year involved phishing. In the UK, Government statistics show that 86% of businesses and 85% of charities that experienced a breach attributed it to phishing emails/websites. Phishing attacks result ...

Organisations and institutions are increasingly taking advantage of the innovation in the sphere of the IoT. Internet-connected building management and critical infrastructure systems can bring benefits in efficiency and capability in the form of “Smart Cities” but also pose significant security risks. The growth of internet-integrated technologies has fa...

This year will see organisations and their employees exposing more information online than ever before, particularly through social media. This exposure is further exacerbated by factors such as cloud computing, lengthening supply chains and the increasing consumerisation of IT. Although these trends provide great benefits, many organisations are also uni...

The Cabinet Office recently estimated the total cost to the UK economy of successful cyber attacks at £27bn per year. This growing cost is attributed to lost intellectual property, extortion, espionage, customer data and identity theft. A recent trend of highly targeted, persistent attacks, rely upon ‘hostile reconnaissance’. During these attacks the adve...