Highlight From Security Analysis – Message From The Head Of Security Analysis

Last quarter Help AG security analysis team has been busy with several security assessments around application layer security and red teaming exercises. Having done so, we are continuously seeing a lot of vulnerabilities around application core weakness; while organizations rely on web application firewall, logical attacks are still a huge risk factor, which is not […]
From The CTO’s Office

Dear Reader, It gives me great pleasure to introduce Help AG’s Q3 2021 Threats and Vulnerabilities report. The Q3 report is also the last TVR that we will publish in 2021, and it gives us a good opportunity to look back at some of the trends we saw when helping enterprise organizations respond to cyber-attacks. […]
Message From The Head Of Security Consulting

Over the past six months or so, we have witnessed an increased focus on data protection initiatives in both government and private institutions in the region. These initiatives ranged from establishing governance around data classification, to privacy compliance, and all the way to implementation of technologies that would support the organization in monitoring and preventing […]
Highlight From The SOC – Message From The Head Of MSS

Over the past few months, I have seen a significant increase in talks on social media and in the news regarding “people’s health” (i.e. employees) and culture in the workplace. More recently, my peers and especially fiends in cybersecurity have reminded me of the importance of a healthy culture – a set of expectations that […]
From The CTO’s Office

Dear readers, First of all, I hope you have all had a fantastic summer. In front of you is our latest edition of our Quarterly Threats and Vulnerabilities Repot. As always, we use this repot to both cover some of the specific security trends of the previous quarter as well as focus on the bigger […]
Top Middle East Cyber Threats – 26 Apr 2021

At Help AG, our Managed Security Services (MSS) team offers 24x7x365 monitoring of complex IT security infrastructures to some of the largest enterprises in the region. As a result, we have our eyes keenly fixed on the cybersecurity threat landscape and are among the first in the region to learn and act upon new threats. […]
New Vulnerabilities Continue To Haunt Legacy VPN Customers

It’s time to retire legacy solutions and move to a Zero Trust approach Summary VPN based exploits have become a popular choice of attackers since the beginning of the pandemic and new vulnerabilities are adding to the chaos Latest identified Zero-Day vulnerability, combined with previous existing vulnerabilities being exploited by threat actors – CVE-2021-22893 There is […]
Top Middle East Cyber Threats – 12 Apr 2021

At Help AG, our Managed Security Services (MSS) team offers 24x7x365 monitoring of complex IT security infrastructures to some of the largest enterprises in the region. As a result, we have our eyes keenly fixed on the cybersecurity threat landscape and are among the first in the region to learn and act upon new threats. […]
Perimeter Security in a Perimeter-Less Era

The global shift to remote work due to the pandemic will not be a short-term phenomenon; it will continue in a significant capacity, outlasting the pandemic, as it has been proven that we can successfully work from home without affecting business productivity. This paradigm shift has led to security concerns for organizations. As more and […]
Cybersecurity Everywhere State of the Market Report

The year 2020 is definitely going down in history as the year of change. As organizations and individuals were forced into what later became the “new normal”, and Google searches overflooded with words like “quarantine”, “lockdown” and “covid19”— the world of cybersecurity went on super charger mode. Organizations suddenly had to re-evaluate their perimeter […]