Posts by Brandon Salem

Introduction Various bodies and their standards, such as the Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD) Information Security Manual and Center for Internet Security (CIS) Critical Security Controls explicitly recommend multiple accounts, to separate standard (i.e. web browsing) and privileged (i.e. system configuration) activities, as a preventative measure to limit the potential impact of unauthorized privileged access. However,…

While an Email Security solution offers many protections against email-based social engineering attacks, it faces a very common issue, which can be presented as a simple question organisations and business can ask themselves when designing and/or reviewing their cybersecurity strategy: What happens when an Email Security solution is presented with a new sender, who sends…