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How Kaizen, continuous improvement, helped with a great approach to optimisation and security.
The challenge?Every company/organisation has internal tasks which include organization goals, compliances, governing body requirements etc which need to be accomplished. These could be related to Finance Human Resource Documentation Security Operation Compliance Infrastructure In the mix of so many daunting challenges or issues it’s easy to get lost or push it for the future, when…
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Our festive offer of £1,000 discount for vulnerability / penetration test
Years back we started our security division because we noted a gap in the market. Regulatory body expected website and web service owners to ensure various security measures including conducting annual ethical hack (vulnerability/penetration test) however the charges for these was expensive. We felt the need for many of our clients and could not find…
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Company / employee handbook for vision and compliance policies and procedures
What is a company/employee handbook? A company handbook is a document which has all the key information that an employee, and others associated with the company might need for compliance and for understanding the companies vision, policy and procedures for general operations and data protection etc. It helps having a central document easily accessible by…
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Security Awareness Training Policy
Purpose The purpose of this Security Awareness Training Policy is to establish guidelines and requirements for the ongoing education and training of all employees, contractors, and third-party vendors of sapnagroup regarding cybersecurity best practices and threats. This policy aims to ensure that all individuals associated with the organization are well-informed and equipped to protect sensitive…
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Why are surveys and acknowledgements important for an organization for process compliance? And how to use Google forms for this.
Every organization has policies and procedures which are shared with the employees, partners, suppliers etc. In an ideal world everything will be fine, however from experience we all know things can go wrong. The management decides on the topics of a training program without checking with the staff or key players what problems employees face.…
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sapnagroup is migrating to a new password management system. Do you need to as well?
Why does one need a password manager? Central system for all your passwords One password to access all the others Secure way to store passwords What should one look for in a password manager? Sync across devices if needed Backups Master key or alternative recovery option Allows creating folders Allows performing search Active support and…
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Data & intellectual property protection/security, wrt ChatGPT, Bard AI and other tools; What’s your company policy?
Samsung banned the use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT by its employees after an accidental leak of sensitive internal source code by an engineer. In January 2023, Amazon warned employees about sharing confidential information with ChatGPT after it noticed responses closely matching its existing material Major banks which include Bank of America, Deutsche Bank,…
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Update now! High severity flaws found in Git for Windows, patched
The Git project released new versions to address some of the security vulnerabilities that affect versions 2.40.0 and older. Git was patched to address to fix CVE-2023-25652, CVE-2023-29007, Windows-specific vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-25815, CVE-2023-29011, and CVE-2023-29012. The Git for Windows project released new versions including the fixes for all five of these vulnerabilities. Recommendation and workaround The…
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WordPress admin security guidelines
WordPress is a really popular content management system and being so prone to attacks. sapnasecurity team has accordingly released a guideline to help secure your WordPress admin environment. Recommendation Implementing Two Factor Authentication to prevent unauthorised access Implementing Password Policy Manager/enforcement plugins and ensuring usage of strong password for backend and changing it every six…