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Keep up to date with the latest developments from North Green Security. Here we will discuss our views on developments within the cyber security industry, new vulnerabilities and attacks, skills development, and career progression.
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Can you spot a phish?
Roughly 8.3 billion emails are sent each day in the UK and nearly half of them are spam or phishing emails. That’s a whole lot of rogue and potentially malicious emails – and a pretty frightening number too! We all know that spam is generally unwanted or irrelevant...
What is CHECK? Exploring qualifications and pathways.
Like many industries, cyber security is full of acronyms and abbreviations – and this also extends into qualifications. We talk to and work with a lot of people who are either trying to break into a career in penetration testing, or who work at a consultancy that...
How can you protect yourself from malware?
The world has changed – and that change is only set to continue. Whether at home or in our professional lives, we are more connected than ever before and have multiple devices that we use daily, from smartphones and tablets to PCs and more. The drawback to this...
How secure is your password really?
For years we’ve been told that the best approach to staying secure is to have a good password. Conventional wisdom says that this should be at least nine characters long and use a combination of upper and lower case characters, numbers, and special characters. But I...
The importance of penetration testing for small businesses
In today's digitally driven world, small businesses are increasingly becoming targets of cyber threats. Yet despite some perceptions that cyber attacks are aimed at large organisations and corporate bodies, the truth is, every business, regardless of size, is...
What is penetration testing – and how can it help protect you?
At North Green Security, we work hard to protect companies of all shapes and sizes against cyber attacks, by conducting penetration tests for them. But, we’ve also learnt that that not everyone knows what penetration testing is – or what it’s used for. In this blog,...
A pentester’s perspective – is AI after our jobs?
One thing that’s hard to avoid on social media recently is AI – and in particular, Chat GPT* which has catapulted its way into virtually everyone’s feed. No longer a subject of discussion amongst those working in or with an interest in tech, there is one main thread,...
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