Assembling cybersecurity: The politics and materiality of technical malware reports and the case of Stuxnet

September 26, 2019

This is an article about how cybersecurity gets “made,” with a focus on the role of commercial computer security firms in generating knowledge in matters of international cybersecurity. The argument is two-fold. Firstly, malware may be an intangible artefact in some ways, but its success and its interpretation as malware is deeply interwoven in social, technical, and material alliances.

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C2 Password Security White Paper

whitePaper | November 24, 2022

In recent years, the necessity to create and maintain dozens or hundreds of online accounts with logins and passwords has become more and more prominent, especially with remote work on the rise and internet usage at an all-time high. Nothing is more secure than making sure that every one of your accounts that you create is using a unique or randomly generated password, but where do you keep track of all of these passwords, and how can you ensure that your password security is up to par?

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Cyber Security: Defending your digital business

whitePaper | November 13, 2019

Your business relies on its technology – but lurking around the corner are intruders who can disrupt or devalue your operations. This report shines a light on the sources of the problem, and how you can establish the control you need to get the best from IT. In every corner of the globe, businesses are building new capabilities thatrely on technology. Small businesses are automating previously‐manual processes and digitizing key tasks and information sources. At the same time, large enterprises are dedicating vast resources to analytics and to digital transformation – capitalizing on the reach and opportunities enabled by digitalized processes.

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Acronis Cyber Protection Operation Centers Report: Ransomware dominates threat landscape

whitePaper | November 24, 2022

Acronis was the first company to implement complete integrated cyber protection to protect all data, applications and systems. Cyber protection requires the researching and monitoring of threats, as well as abiding by the five vectors of safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity and security, or SAPAS. As part of the strategy, we’ve established four Cyber Protection Operation Centers (CPOCs) around the world to monitor and research cyberthreats 24/7.

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Security Challenges for the Energy Industry on the Industrial Internet of Things

whitePaper | November 4, 2022

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a relatively new computing paradigm that combines machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), remote sensors, and device-control applications (or “apps”) to help businesses and industry achieve more efficient and reliable operations. In the oil and gas field, IIoT is used for a variety of purposes—from fully autonomous pump and valve control to remote sensing of security breaches at isolated wellsites.

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Aerospace cybersecuirty- Bringing a zero-trust approach to aviation product network design

whitePaper | May 18, 2022

Modern aerospace products are moving into containerization and micro-services. Mounting connected internal micro-services patterns in a product segregates and segments the network to support a zero-trust network security approach. Having weak internal network security of the product allows malicious actors to exploit them and elevate privileges — denying users access, jamming signals, or even shutting them down. Such interference could cause major harm to aircraft safety and operations.

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MEC security; Status of standards support and future evolutions

whitePaper | September 28, 2022

The present White Paper will focus on MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) technologies and intends to explore security-related use cases and requirements with the aim of identifying aspects of security where the nature of edge computing results in insufficient industry approaches to cloud security. Edge computing environments are by nature characterized by a complex multi-vendor, multi-supplier, multi-stakeholder ecosystem of equipment including both HW and SW devices. Given this overall level of system heterogeneity, the areas of security, trust, and privacy are key topics for the edge environments. Finally, the advent of edge cloud federations and the presence of (far) edge devices, e.g., in Internet-ofThings environments, requires tackling MEC security with an end-to-end (E2E) approach by leveraging existing standards relevant in the area, as carefully selected to be applicable in edge computing systems.

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Take Total-Control of your Cyber Presence Razorthorn Ltd is a dedicated Information Security and Cyber Intelligence consultancy with an international presence that helps its clients to take an integrated approach to Information security and Cyber intelligence ensuring the main pillars of People, Process and Technology are always included in the information life-cycle. Our belief in quality and discretion drives everything, resulting in satisfied, long term clients.

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