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Bridewell scoops top 10 spot in Thames Valley SME 100 Growth Index
For the second year running, Bridewell Consulting has secured a top 10 spot in the Thames Valley SME 100 Growth Index, listing at number 9.
Bridewell’s SOC services gain CREST accreditation
Bridewell is proud to have gained CREST accreditation for its Security Operations Centre (SOC) services. Bridewell provides an end-to-end portfolio of Managed SOC services to deliver
EU Adopts ‘Adequacy’ decision allowing data to continue flowing freely to the UK
Good news followed the weekend, as the European Commission approved plans to recognise the United Kingdom’s data protection regime as ‘adequate’.
Manchester Airport Group increases security event visibility by 1500% with Bridewell Consulting
UK’s largest airport group brings Security Operations Centre in-house to improve security posture and reduce cyber risk
![Ransomware incidents continue to feature in the international as well as IT industry press, with recent high profile victims being JBS Foods, Fujifilm, Colonial Pipeline, Ireland's Health Service Executive, and AXA Insurance. Less well publicised are the many smaller organisations that are held to cyber ransom. Being targeted in this way does not indicate negligence or bad practice: many well-secured networks are quietly also becoming victims. Industry surveys show that ransomware is playing a significantly increased role in malware-associated data breaches year-on-year, now involved in 61.2%.[1] Of course, the many organisations forced to close do not survive to participate in industry surveys, and non-public companies are not required to report ransomware incidents, both of which surely push the true frequency higher.](https://bwc-www-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2021/06/Ransomware-Do-I-need-Cyber-Insurance-1-1024x576.jpg)
Ransomware – Do I need Cyber Insurance
Ransomware incidents continue to feature in the international as well as IT industry press, with recent high profile victims being JBS Foods, Fujifilm, Colonial Pipeline, Ireland’s Health Service Executive, and AXA Insurance. Less well publicised are the many smaller organisations that are held to cyber ransom.
Preparing for the Inevitable
“There are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those who don’t know they have been hacked.”
This aphorism is generally accepted within the information security and wider risk management industries as being true.
If we accept that this is the case, then it is logical that we should prepare our companies for cyber-attacks, not only for the breach itself but also how they should respond.
Bridewell Consulting to open five new UK offices following rapid growth.
To meet rapidly-growing demand for its unique expertise, cyber security services company, Bridewell Consulting, is opening five new regional offices in the UK and plans to double headcount over the next 12 months.
Incident Response – Quickly Painting the Picture Using PowerShell
In the early stages of an ongoing incident, after an organisation has identified an issue, a cyber security incident response team (CSIRT) will know very little about the task at hand and they will need to quickly establish the scope of an investigation.
Bridewell Consulting joins Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
Bridewell Consulting has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), a group of technology providers who have integrated their solutions with Microsoft products to provide customers better protection, detection, and response.
Bridewell Consulting appoints Paul Driver as Chairman
Reading, UK – 24th May 2021 – Independent cyber security services company, Bridewell Consulting, has appointed Paul Driver as Non-executive Chairman to help steer the company’s growth strategy.
Why Should We Plan For A Pandemic In Business Continuity?
When the pandemic struck in 2020 and the world was told to “Stay at Home, Protect the NHS & Save Lives”, everybody complied, and life was put on hold for 3 months. Little did we know!
Everyone was asked to “work from home, if at all possible” and this impacted most businesses with many sadly closing for the final time.
Securing your digital space with a zero-trust security strategy
A zero-trust security model simply assumes one thing. You trust no-one and no device. Putting a little more context into this, we have three principles.
2021 Ransomware and the Mitre Att&ck Framework
As we have now moved into Q2 we have already seen the continued trend in the media of companies that have become victim to Ransomware,
Security: adopting a detection and response approach
Featuring Martin Riley, Director of Managed Security Service, at Bridewell Consulting. Martin Riley explains why raising the drawbridge to a cyber-attack isn’t enough on its
Cloud Security architecture for mid-size organisations
Many medium sized organisations have by now successfully migrated their less complicated use cases to cloud services. These include email and SaaS as well as
Real World Attack Simulation – Attackers do not care about your compliance
The challenges faced by everyone in 2020 were unprecedented. Companies forced to run their businesses from within their own living rooms faced, not only issues
How does Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR increase performance of security operations and increase Microsoft’s value to businesses?
The objective of a security operations centre is to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to cyber security attacks and they do so with mixed results. Security operations focusing on cyber defence or blue team tactics need several tools to successfully achieve their objective and with the number of tools and vendors usually within operation, deploying a Zero Trust security framework to support a modern, digital business is an impossible task.
Extend your cyber security team with a Hybrid SOC model
Developing the capability to prevent threats through monitoring, detection and response continue to be the goal for all organisations and a Hybrid SOC will help complement and develop existing teams, increasing overall security performance.
Bridewell Consulting secures multi-million investment from Growth Capital Partners
Cyber security services company, Bridewell Consulting, today announced a new multi-million investment from Growth Capital Partners (GCP). The deal, which sees the private equity firm take a minority stake in the business, forms part of a wider five-year growth strategy for Bridewell. Scott Nicholson and Anthony Young will retain ownership over the company strategy and leadership as Co-CEOs, with GCP acting as a strategic partner.
Bridewell entrusted to bolster security of 2021 Census programme
Security consulting firm engaged to undertake an overarching independent information assurance review of the programme’s security
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) – How does XDR fuel the Modern SOC
Extended Detection and Response, shortened to XDR, is enabling Security as a Service providers and organisations to keep pace with the demands of the digitally transforming organisation by adapting to the needs of cloud services. But just what is XDR and how is it helping organisations successfully take up Threat Detection and Response services from a SOC?
Managed Detection and Response – Adaptable to any environment
In today’s modern enterprise it is common to see the convergence of traditional enterprise IT infrastructure such as private or on-premises data centre with public cloud, in a hybrid deployment. It is also common for enterprises to integrate their business operations with multiple cloud providers adding additional complexity and expense.
Managed Detection and Response from a Managed Security Service Provider
Enterprises are increasingly recognising that deploying multiple point security solutions can reduce cyber risk when deployed correctly but do little to provide visibility and detection