Everything you need to know about endpoint network security and how to conduct an endpoint security audit.

As a business owner, you’re no stranger to the myriad moving parts that keep the day-to-day business going. In all the bustle, it can be easy to overlook important tasks such as creating a privacy policy because you’re unsure where to start or which elements to include.

2018 is rapidly drawing to a close. The winter chill is setting in and a festive spirit permeates the air. 2019 is hurtling towards us carrying the promise of new challenges and opportunities. However, there’s still a couple of weeks to get a few more massive data breaches in.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. As many of us ramp up to some kind of party frenzy over coming weeks, this timely article on how the youngsters and trendy ones are perhaps organising parties in a bad way could be worth absorbing. While it goes over my head (as according to my kids I’m a ‘miserable caveman’), hopefully it might help those of you more popular to get it right.

An organization can have innumerable VPN access attempts from within or outside its facility. In the world of globalization and cloud computing, even these attempts can be made from outside the country. Checking each attempt manually is a daunting task for enterprises as it consumes a lot of time and engages more security professionals. The basic VPN checks involve DNS Leaks, IP Address Leaks (e.g., IPv4 and IPv6), and WebRTC Leaks.

It’s December, which means it’s time to get those 2019 cyber predictions going. While there are many well-informed, and some not-so-well informed opinions out there, I’ve dug through the cyber underground, I’ve climbed data mountains, and delved to the depths of the dark web to seek out what is really happening.

For continuous coverage, we push out major Detectify security updates every two weeks, keeping our tool up-to-date with new findings, features and improvements sourced from our security researchers and Crowdsource ethical hacker community. Due to confidentially agreements, we cannot publicize all security update releases here but they are immediately added to our scanner and available to all users. This post highlights a few things that we have improved in the last two weeks.