The Balanced Scorecard: A Strategic Framework for Holistic Business Performance In today’s competitive and dynamic business landscape, a myopic focus on individual departmental goals can lead to organisational imbalance. This challenge was addressed by Harvard Professor Robert Kaplan and David Norton, CEO of Palladium Group Inc., who introduced the Balanced Scorecard—a transformative strategic planning and …
### The Misconception of Security Through Size
One pervasive misconception is that smaller businesses are less likely to attract cybercriminals’ attention. However, data proves otherwise: cybercriminals often see SMBs as easy targets precisely because they may lack the extensive defences of larger enterprises. Small and medium businesses hold valuable data, including customer information, financial records, and intellectual property, making them prime candidates for attacks such as phishing, ransomware, and business email compromise.
Access control is the process of defining who can access what resources and under what conditions. When these controls are not properly implemented or enforced, it leads to Broken Access Control. This vulnerability allows unauthorised individuals to access sensitive data, modify critical systems, or even take complete control of the infrastructure.
Certificate Transparency is a system designed to provide an open framework for monitoring, auditing, and enforcing the issuance of digital certificates. Introduced by Google in 2013, CT aims to combat the issuance of fraudulent certificates by creating publicly accessible logs that record all certificates issued by Certificate Authorities (CAs). These logs can be monitored by anyone, allowing for greater accountability and transparency in the PKI ecosystem.
Memory scraping malware targets the RAM of a system, as opposed to traditional malware that often targets files or other storage systems. The memory (RAM) is where the most sensitive, transient data resides, such as decrypted payment information and user credentials. RAM scrapers extract this sensitive data directly from running processes or application memory spaces before it can be encrypted or otherwise secured. This makes RAM scraping a particularly effective approach for cybercriminals intent on bypassing typical security measures, such as encrypted storage.