Aurora Security Consulting Services

As we increasingly rely on technology to conduct business, communicate with others, and store valuable information, the requirements of cybersecurity have continued to grow. Working from home has exacerbated the digital transformation and shift to the cloud that occurs today. The priorities of security teams have drastically changed because of rapid growth in technology. The emergence of new technologies such as secure access service edge begs the question, does my organization need to get SASE to keep up with increasing cyber threats? The State of Cybersecurity According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the global cost of cybercrime reached almost $1 trillion in 2020. In just the first few months of 2021, cyberattacks continue to be frequent and costly. In May, the Whitehouse issued an executive order that intends to strengthen the cybersecurity best practices among federal organizations. As organizations respond to the increase of cybercrime and the strengthened...

Most security-conscious organizations have made significant investigations in their Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Solutions through the creation of policies and remediation workflows. DLP solutions are an excellent solution to protect data on-premise. However, this level of security cannot be extended to the cloud without integrating new solutions into your environment. A Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) can be used to enforce those security policies to the cloud. A CASB and DLP work well together to extend these DLP policies to the cloud.  The Benefits of DLP DLP Solutions work to monitor network traffic and look for violations of policy. The DLP will analyze violations in cloud traffic in the network, but the DLP cannot take any actions to automatically prevent the loss of data in the cloud. A web proxy can also be used to inspect and block sensitive content, but these solutions are limited in how they extend to the cloud.   Integrating CASB & DLP   If you ...

In the wake of increased cyber security attacks on organizations in every industry, companies are looking for ways to improve their security posture. Nowadays the saying that it is not a matter of if you will get hacked, it’s a matter of when, has never been truer. For organizations that are just starting to make cybersecurity a priority, implementing penetration testing consulting services is a critical first step. What is Penetration Testing? The goal of a penetration test is to keep your organization’s confidential and critical data safe from malicious attacks. During a penetration test, the tester will test to see how they can leverage the vulnerabilities in your environment to steal and tamper with important data. By acting as a hacker, they can patch these vulnerabilities before they are exploited with malicious intent. Unlike vulnerability testing, where the tester is looking for weaknesses in an environment, in a penetration test, the tester is searching for ways to exploit...

  What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)?  Data Loss Prevention can help your organization protect three types of data: data in use, data at motion, and data at rest. Data in use is the data accessed by you when you use a laptop or phone. Data in use applies to data that can be lost when a user copies and pastes business-critical information into an unauthorized area online. Data in motion is data that is being transferred from one place to another. This can be via email, USBs, or in the cloud. Data in place is the data that is already in the environment that it is intended to be placed in.   Data Loss Prevention is a key security tool to protect your business-critical information. It prevents end-users from moving information outside of the organization. It tracks both data in motion and data in place. This gives your organization an idea of who is accessing your data, where, and when. Any organization that stores, accesses, or shares data online should consider impleme...