Research from Adarma examines critical aspects of cybersecurity operations and reveals that overconfidence could leave businesses vulnerable to attack.

London, UK -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/13/2023 -- Adarma, an independent leader in detection and response services, published a report titled "A False Sense of Cybersecurity: How Feeling Safe Can Sabotage Your Business." The report examines critical aspects of security operations like confidence levels, 'tool sprawl', the use of artificial intelligence and the productivity and well-being of security teams.

Based on a survey* of 500 cybersecurity professionals from UK organisations with over 2000 employees, Adarma found that 95% of UK enterprises are 'very confident' (53%) or 'somewhat confident' (42%) that they do not have gaps in their security controls coverage. Yet, two-thirds (68%) have fallen victim to a cyber-attack in the last two years.

One possible reason for this disconnect could be the belief that having more security tools leads to better protection for the organisation. The research indicated that confidence levels tended to rise alongside the number of security tools used, as did the chances of experiencing a security breach.

Commenting on the report, Scott McElney, CISO of the Weir Group, cautioned against the assumption that more tooling leads to enhanced security, noting that "adding more tools may increase risk due to the complexities involved in managing them and the requisite skills needed to configure and optimise them."

The UK government's 2023 cybersecurity sectoral analysis reveals that there are currently 1,979 firms offering cybersecurity products and services in the country. However, 61% of respondents find this fragmented technology landscape hinders their ability to improve their security capabilities and performance. As a result, 80% are currently consolidating their security technology or plan to do so, and an additional 18% acknowledge the need to reduce their tooling.

"Unfortunately, the proliferation of cybersecurity products and services has misled many into believing that they are the cure-all to our cybersecurity woes; in fact, it has introduced more complexity and confusion. More tools do not guarantee protection if they are not properly configured and talking to each other or, for example, if organisations don't have the expertise to manage incoming alerts appropriately. Ultimately, technology is only as good as the people who are deploying, integrating and optimising it," said John Maynard, Adarma's CEO.

"By consolidating the tech stack, organisations stand to gain greater visibility over their application estate, allowing for more effective resourcing, more centralised competencies, and reduced digital fragmentation. But again, successfully making that transition without compromising the organisation's cyber resilience comes down to having the right people with the know-how," Maynard concludes.

Organisations encounter various difficulties when attempting to consolidate their technology stack. According to the survey, 45% struggle with implementation due to its complexity and the need for expertise. Another 43% mention the difficulty in optimising and utilising technology to its fullest potential. Additionally, 40% express concern about becoming dependent on a single vendor.

Adarma recommends that organisations adopt a comprehensive approach to security by considering the complete security technology lifecycle, as well as the required individuals and procedures for integration, configuration, and optimisation. Sufficient resources and capabilities should be assigned to effectively manage security tools.

Additionally, prioritising the consolidation of the security stack can improve efficiency and visibility. However, Adarma warns organisations should proceed cautiously by defining desired business outcomes and having an independent security architect lead the consolidation project.

Security leaders must trust both people and technology, acknowledge gaps in controls, and avoid overconfidence in security.

Read the full report here: www.adarma.com/a-false-sense-of-cybersecurity

*The survey was completed between the 15th and 22nd of May 2023.

About Adarma
We are Adarma, leaders in detection and response services. We specialise in designing, building and managing cybersecurity operations that deliver a measurable reduction in business risk. We are on a mission to make cyber resilience a reality for organisations around the world.

Our team of passionate Cyber Defenders work hand in hand with our customers to mitigate risk and maximise the value of their cybersecurity investments. Powered by the Adarma Threat Management Platform and optimised to our customers' individual needs, we deliver an integrated set of services that improve your security posture, including best-in-class Managed Detection and Response services.

We operate with transparency and visibility across today's hybrid-SOC environments to protect our customers as they innovate, transform, and grow their businesses. Adarma delivers the cybersecurity outcomes you need to make a remarkable difference.

For more information, visit: https://adarma.com/

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- Adarma is an independent cybersecurity company, founded in 2009, with offices in Edinburgh and London.

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Adarma’s DFIR services help customers prepare and respond effectively to everyday cyber incidents to minimise business impact.

London, UK -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/06/2023 -- Edinburgh, UK (04.07.2023) – Adarma, the leading independent specialist in detection and response services, has today announced the expansion of its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) offering with integrated DFIR. This new product closes the gap between MDR and specialist incident response services encountered by many business. It reinforces our promise of cyber resilience by minimising the business impact of cyber incidents.

Last year, Adarma were awarded a £2m grant from Scottish Enterprise to accelerate the company's innovation roadmap enhancing its research and development programme. The grant enabled Adarma to invest in its people, products and Threat Management Platform.

This also included the enhancement and integration of its DFIR capabilities. This strengthened Adarma's capability to help customers respond to cyber incidents and continue decades of support to large, global enterprises.

HOW MDR with DFIR WORKS
In the first 24 to 48 hours of a breach, organisations face critical decisions with potentially severe impacts to their reputation, legal and financial positions. Traditional MDR services focus on detecting cyber incidents but fail to provide adequate incident response capabilities. Organisations must often engage an expensive specialist incident response consulting firm only after a serious incident occurs.

However, Adarma's MDR and DFIR service bridges this gap. Adarma provides a combined proactive incident planning with incident response expertise gained from running security operations for FTSE 350 organisations.

With Adarma's DFIR service, customers retain a minimum of 50 hours of incident response support alongside their existing MDR services.

This ensures immediate access to a team of highly trained digital forensics and incident response experts via a 24x7 secure hotline. For Adarma MDR customers, this means the DFIR response team will already possess a deep understanding of their business, operations, and technology infrastructure. This eliminates the learning curve faced when an incident response firm is brought in.

This streamlined approach significantly reduces overall response time and allows organisations to spend unused hours to take advantage of Adarma's security consultancy services.

"MDR is crucial for handling a broad range of common cyber incidents," said John Maynard, CEO of Adarma.

"However, it is equally important to ensure that organisations have the necessary technical response capabilities to address serious issues and have continuity as well as control throughout. That's why I am proud to introduce Adarma's latest DFIR offering, which bridges the gap between MDR and specialist incident response consultancies—delivering a cost-effective, swift and coordinated response to all incidents."

Adarma's enhanced MDR services with DFIR capabilities mark a significant milestone in empowering organisations to effectively respond to cyber threats, mitigate risks, and safeguard their valuable assets. With a focus on comprehensive incident planning and a timely response, Adarma is dedicated to delivering exceptional cyber resilience to its customers.

For more information about Adarma's DFIR retainer, visit: https://adarma.com/incident-response/

About Adarma
We are Adarma, independent leaders in detection and response services. We specialise in designing, building and managing cybersecurity operations that deliver a measurable reduction in business risk. We are on a mission to make cyber resilience a reality for organisations around the world.

Our team of passionate Cyber Defenders work hand in hand with our customers to mitigate risk and maximise the value of their cybersecurity investments. Powered by the Adarma Threat Management Platform and optimised to our customers' individual needs, we deliver an integrated set of services that improve your security posture including best in class Managed Detection and Response services.

We operate with transparency and visibility across today's hybrid-SOC environments to ensure our customers are protected as they innovate, transform, and grow their businesses. Adarma delivers the cybersecurity outcomes you need to make a remarkable difference.

For more information, visit: https://adarma.com/

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London, UK -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/12/2023 -- As the world becomes more interconnected, the risk of cyber-attacks continues to grow. Adversaries are becoming more sophisticated in their methods, making it essential for businesses to stay up-to-date on the latest cyber threats. In response, Adarma has released a report on the top three cyber threats facing UK businesses.

Based on daily collection, processing, and analysis of incident reports and external intelligence, Adarma's report provides actionable insights for cyber defenders. The report highlights Initial Access Resale (IAR) attacker strategies and how to defend against them, Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacker strategies and how to mitigate against them, and Cyber extortion techniques and how to strengthen cybersecurity posture against them. Additionally, the report addresses the rise of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Fatigue and how to combat it.

"As organizations continue to struggle with the digital fallout of the rush to cloud during the pandemic, cyber adversaries continue to find new and increasingly sophisticated ways to exploit the vulnerabilities born out of the urgency and speed of digital transformation over the past three years," said Cian Heasley, Threat Intelligence Team Lead at Adarma. "IAR, BEC, and Cyber Extortion have emerged as the top three most prevalent attacks, however, there has also been a notable rise in MFA Fatigue, which organizations should also be alert to."

The report provides CISOs and executive decision-makers with the information they need to adjust their security posture to remain protected in today's dynamic risk environment. Adarma's report offers insights to help businesses understand cyber adversaries, their motivations, and their tradecraft, empowering them to better defend their organizations.

For more information on Adarma's report on the top three cyber threats facing UK businesses, download the Top 3 Cyber Threats Facing UK Businesses report from their website or contact their team directly.

About Adarma
Adarma are independent leaders in detection and response services. We specialise in designing, building and managing cybersecurity operations that deliver a measurable reduction in business risk. We are on a mission to make cyber resilience a reality for organisations around the world.

Our team of passionate cyber defenders work hand in hand with our customers to mitigate risk and maximise the value of their cybersecurity investments. Powered by the Adarma Threat Management Platform and optimised to our customers' individual needs, we deliver an integrated set of services that improve your security posture including best in class Managed Detection and Response services.

We operate with transparency and visibility across today's hybrid-Security Operations Centre (SOC) environments to ensure our customers are protected as they innovate, transform, and grow their businesses. Adarma delivers the cybersecurity outcomes you need to make a remarkable difference.

Company Quote

Joanne Gilhooley, CMO of Adarma commented
" Organisations and, more specifically, security teams have been under significant stress of late. Not only are they having to contend with a rise in the frequency and sophistication of cyber attacks, but they are having to do so with limited resources,"

"At Adarma, we pride ourselves on being a trusted partner, working hand-in-hand with customers to tackle these ever-evolving threats. By delivering 24/7 monitoring, human-led investigation, hunting and active response actions, our MDR service is yet another extension of our promise to bolster businesses' cyber resilience."

To talk to our team of cybersecurity experts visit: https://adarma.com/contact-us/

To find out more information about Adarma and our services visit: https://adarma.com/

For any media enquiries please contact Gary Elliott at Iconic Digital – 020 7100 0726.

For all other enquiries please contact Adarma at https://adarma.com/contact-us/

For more information about Adarma services, please go to https://adarma.com/

Adarma is an independent cybersecurity company, founded in 2019, with offices in Edinburgh and London.

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London, UK -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/22/2023 -- Adarma, the leading independent specialist in detection and response services has today announced a new service within its Managed Detection & Response (MDR) suite of offerings based on Microsoft XDR (Extended Detection & Response) technology.

The turnkey service is aimed at customers who require coverage against the UK's most prevalent threats and who do not have the in-house teams to manage a 24×7 Security Operations Centre. The service will enable customers to easily outsource the end-to-end process of identifying and addressing threats to a first-rate team armed with decades of expertise in security operations and backed by an advanced technology stack.

With over a decade protecting many global organisations in the FTSE 350, Adarma's intent is to scale their offerings and distill decades of learnings in detection and response services to help a broader set of customers improve their security maturity and tackle today's cyber threats.

According to (ISC)2's 2022 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, the industry remains acutely understaffed, with a global cyber workforce gap of 3.4 million people. The pressure this places on organisations is only compounded by their own increasingly complex attack surface prompted by the shift towards hybrid working, as well as the continued evolution of the cybercrime ecosystem, both in breadth and depth. Indeed, research by Check Point highlighted a 38% surge in cyber attacks per week in 2022, compared to the preceding year. Moreover, the rise of AI tooling and other commoditised threat actor technologies such as ransomware-as-a-service, threatens to lower the barrier of entry and fuel further cybercrime. Yet, security leaders are still expected to successfully defend businesses at a time of rapid digital transformation, around-the-clock.

Leveraging Microsoft's XDR suite and the Adarma Threat Management Platform, the new service benefits from Adarma's deep domain expertise, threat intelligence, proprietary threat-led detection engineering, content management and automation and orchestration technology. The service delivers a unified, swift, and accurate response to eradicate threats while providing outcomes that are the right fit for customers at every stage of their security journey.

Key features of the Adarma MDR service include:

– Risk-based defence across the major attack vectors of email, web, endpoint & identity.

– Strategic threat intelligence with actionable insights to power detection development, hunting and investigations.

– Expert threat hunting to uncover adversary activity, which may lay dormant or otherwise evade detective controls.

– Continuous skilled threat monitoring and triage of an unlimited number of security alerts. All alerts are categorised and prioritised for investigation within seconds.

– Context-rich investigation of real threat activity.

– Rapid and effective incident response 24/7 with options tailored by preference, from customer-directed to fully delegated response.

– Intuitive online portal for simple, transparent case management, customisable incident notifications and containment with 1-click containment authorisation.

– Minimal operational overhead through the elimination of unnecessary customer tasks, enabling organisations to work on other priorities.

"Organisations and, more specifically, security teams have been under significant stress of late. Not only are they having to contend with a rise in the frequency and sophistication of cyber attacks, but they are having to do so with limited resources," said Joanne Gilhooley, CMO of Adarma. "At Adarma, we pride ourselves on being a trusted partner, working hand-in-hand with customers to tackle these ever-evolving threats. By delivering 24/7 monitoring, human-led investigation, hunting and active response actions, our MDR service is yet another extension of our promise to bolster businesses' cyber resilience."

"We are delighted to see that Adarma continues to bring its expertise in security operations and XDR to clients leveraging the Microsoft security stack" said Paul Kelly, Director of Microsoft's Security Business Unit in the UK. "We've seen rapid increases in the volume, severity, and sophistication of cyber attacks, along with a growing breadth of targets. The Microsoft XDR stack provides organisations with an integrated SecOps solution that eliminates inefficient silos while delivering simplified, comprehensive protection."

About Adarma

Adarma are independent leaders in detection and response services. We specialise in designing, building and managing cybersecurity operations that deliver a measurable reduction in business risk. We are on a mission to make cyber resilience a reality for organisations around the world.

Our team of passionate cyber defenders work hand in hand with our customers to mitigate risk and maximise the value of their cybersecurity investments. Powered by the Adarma Threat Management Platform and optimised to our customers' individual needs, we deliver an integrated set of services that strengthen security posture including best in class Managed Detection and Response services.

We operate with transparency and visibility across today's hybrid-Security Operations Centre (SOC) environments to ensure our customers are protected as they innovate, transform, and grow their businesses. Adarma delivers the cybersecurity outcomes that organisations need to make a remarkable difference.

To talk to our team of cybersecurity experts visit: https://adarma.com/contact-us/

To find out more information about Adarma and our services visit: https://adarma.com/

For any media enquiries please contact Gary Elliott at Iconic Digital – 020 7100 0726.

For all other enquiries please contact Adarma at https://adarma.com/contact-us/

For more information about Adarma services, please go to https://adarma.com/

Adarma is an independent cybersecurity company, founded in 2019, with offices in Edinburgh and London.

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