Precursor Security

Join us for Cloud Security Strategies 2022.

A day of valuable cloud security strategies that keep you safe. Join us for lunch and talk to our expert speakers and guests about how to keep your organisation safe as you move critical data, applications and users into public and hybrid cloud environments. Get more info at: https://www.precursorsecurity.com/events/cloud-security-strategies-2022

Precursor Security Consultants Leeds based cyber security consultancy - free initial consultation. CREST certified with one mission: to help you protect your business from cyber threats, whatever your needs and your budget. We work with all types and sizes of companies and offer a free first consultation for small and medium comp

Are you responsible for your company's cyber security strategy? Can you be in Manchester on the 26th November? Then come and join us at Cyber Security Strategies 2021 and get the latest updates that you can use - in the cloud and on-premise.

Cyber Security Strategies 2021 — Precursor Security Consultants An in-person event for cyber security professionals to find strategies to secure Azure, AWS and on-premise services from malicious and accidental cyber threats.

The only way to ensure there's no possibility of unwanted connections to a device is to unplug said connections 👍 Simple, elegant and completely useless 👎 Solution? A well configured outbound firewall 🔥

Do Not Neglect Outbound Firewalling If we are talking in extremes (which we often need to in today's security landscape) then the only true method of ensuring absolutely no…

Do you struggle to keep track of the constantly changing threat landscape that affects your organisations web applications and critical external assets?

Join us next Tuesday on our free educational webinar to gain a deeper understanding of a web applications attack surface.

Learn more and register on our website.

[Free Webinar] Web Application Security – Why so Hard? Insecure web applications are a serious problem for IT security professionals in 2019. Last year , the number of new web app…

This is proving to be a very handy blog post for a lot of people 🙌 Learn how to change the default SSL certificate on WatchGuard Technologies UK firewalls 🔥

Changing the Default SSL Certificate on Watchguard Firewalls. If you have a requirement to perform PCI scanning against your firewall and are using the Watchguard SSL VPN client for remote connectivity…

Password1 – why is this still a thing? 😑

Password1 It regularly makes an appearance in lists of the top 20, 50 or 100 worst passwords, has lowercase characters AND uppercase characters. It…

SecDevOps 👀 In this recent post, we look at why cyber security is shifting to the left...

SecDevOps - Shifting Security Left DevOps has evolved over the years and is essential to the success of many organisations efforts in build and deployment. The evolution of…

One of our clients recently asked us to deliver a review of their network architecture. The entire thing was flat, with next to no segmentation between devices 😭 Discover why network segmentation is fundamental to your security set up.

Network Segmentation I was recently asked to look at a network and offer suggestions to enhance the security and overall resilience due to the results of an…

Want to learn how to create and troubleshoot a site to site VPN? 😎 Check out this handy guide from our WatchGuard Technologies UK Certified Trainer Ric Gresty 🙌

Creating and Troubleshooting Site to Site VPN Branch office VPN connections are common place in most businesses. Even organisations with a single site will often have a connection for…

Happy to announce we've sponsored the bar at this year's BSides Leeds. Read this post for more info and tickets to the conference.

The BSides Infosec Conference Returns to Leeds BSides returns to Leeds for what's set to be an exciting instalment of the infosec conference. Expect a jam packed day, full of lectures, workshops, network opportunities and much more.