IARM, a value partners of TEDxAlpharettaWomen for a Virtual Event "SEEK 2020"

 

IARM partnered with TEDxAlpharettaWomen for spreading ideas that change our world

The team at IARM Information Security Pvt.Ltd. will be delighted to sponsor TEDxAlpharettaWomen that was created to Pursue insights & ideas during the pandemic that will spark discussions in discovering tomorrow a stronger one.

TEDxAlpharettaWomen, Launching digitally this November 21st, 2020, that will be focused on exploring the theme SEEK.

TedxAlpharettaWomen will feature 12 inspirational women, all of whom have innovative ideas that can inspire hope and transform conversations.

Mr Ganesh Narayanan, Director at IARM, said: “We are proud to be associated and sponsoring “TedxAlpharettaWomen” in their endeavours to change the culture and community for a better tomorrow”.

The whole team here at IARM has really got behind “TedxAlpharettaWomen” event which would be filled with inspiring ideas and performances in an interactive virtual platform and we shall cheer them on and take up this great challenge for a fantastic cause. Glowing with pride, we are honored to be a partner of this grand initiative!

For further information, please do get in touch with us at info@iarminfo.com | https://www.iarminfo.com/

About IARM

IARM Information Security Pvt.Ltd., has come forward to sponsor TEDxAlpharettaWomen. IARM is an Information Security organization which offers innovation, delivers smart solutions and services to customers in the area of cybersecurity. One of the few companies in India to focus exclusively on End-End Information Security solutions and services. Security is our paramount service.

IARM sets the standard for consistency, customer service and professionalism. Our personalized A.D.I.O principle provides a highly robust solution to keep the data safe, and this methodology is best suited to help the organisation

How IARM responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hey all!

Today we will discuss how IARM Information Security responds to the noble pandemic. Hope this out pores will be helpful for a business owner to manage their organization.

Here I would like to share about IARM. Who is IARM? and what IARM provides? In Simple, we can say IARM, a leading cybersecurity company, offers information security services and solutions to the organisation across all vertices.

With a pandemic situation across the world and most organisations, irrespective of the size and volume of business, is trying to strike a balance between responding to their customer requirements and at the same time respecting the situation of their own employees. Having an established HR, Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan, IARM  were geared up to handle the situation with ease. Fortunately, our teams were well trained and put to practice to work with bare minimum infrastructure and expect bottlenecks. With a robust change control procedure that was in place and part of routine operations, it was not difficult For IARM Information Security Pvt .Ltd. to operate under the COVID 19 Situation.

The team continued to focus on the customer's requirements due to the reason we were always ready to expect these scenarios and situations. The IARM Team was addressing the avalanche of customers requests and everyone wanting to have their share of attention at the same time. It is perfectly acceptable as a service provider working in the security domain to receive such peaks in the request, but since we had the plan of action to address those, it was well delivered as well as received by our customers.

Indeed the COVID 19 has increased our value of services and solutions in the Cyber Security Market, and based on the services and solutions rendered, IARM Information Security Pvt.Ltd. keeps receiving more such requests from existing and new clients. Customers see the value of the services and solutions delivered during the time and crisis and we have been delivering our promises irrespective of whether they are new or existing customers. 

We reflect our motto “Trustworthy Partners Forever”.

With the pandemic situation still continuing, and the corporate network extended to each and every employee home almost full time, the threat landscape has increased phenomenally. 

IARM Information Security Pvt. Ltd., continues to offer the Cyber Security Services and Solutions and in parallel ensures and protects the employees to stay safe both mentally and physically  along with the families.

Thanks
Priya
IARM Information Security - Cyber Security Company in Chennai

Phishing Attack Advisory related COVID-19

Heh all!  Phishing Attack Advisory ( COVID-19 ) that is security best practices for avoiding
cyber risks and potential threats which is likely to create disruption in business.

Here, we provide a high level summary of the security best practice and recommendations as detailed.
We hope the information will be useful for each and every organization & individual(s) as well.

If you would like to know more about this Alert and fixes, please do get in touch with
us at info@iarminfo.com | https://www.iarminfo.com/

Summary 

India’s Cyber Security nodal agency has warned against a large scale cyber attack against
individuals and businesses, where attackers may use COVID-19 as a bait to steal personal
and financial information

The phishing campaign is expected to start today (21st June 2020) with hackers using ncov2019@gov.in mail id.

The attackers are expected to send malicious emails under the pretext of local authorities that are in charge of
dispensing government funded COVID-19 support initiatives.

In order to increase resilience against this threat, IARM advising below immediate measures

• IARM recommends individuals and businesses not to open any suspicious mails and mail attachments.
• The most important thing to pay attention to in any phishing attack email is the embedded link.
• Never ever click on any link in an unsolicited e-mail before checking with IT team 
• Advise IT Administrators to block mail id ncov2019@gov.in and keep all systems current with the latest security patches and updates
• IARM recommending IT/Security team to send Phishing warning message to end users to create awareness

If you have any queries, feel free to contact us.

Thanks,

Priya - IARM Information Security

Cybersecurity Company in chennai, Penetration Testing service in chennai, VAPT Services

9 Principles of Cyber Security behaviors during COVID-19

Over several companies, the accelerated shift to a totally dispersed workforce due to sheltered orders has generated the slew of sudden and intense cybersecurity challenges.

IARM, a leading Cybersecurity company provides the Cyber Security Best Practices for Work From Home / Teleworking 

According to survey 4,048 executive decision-makers across major business sectors in India, Australia,
France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore and the US. The study explored in this
COVID-19 case, the cyber threat happened where several people turned from home to work. 

Indian decision-makers were surveyed at around 520 people across small, medium and large firms, and the
Top Cybersecurity company in Bangalore found the following: 

• There was a 100x increase in COVID-19-themed malicious files from February through March aloneBut Indian companies remain alarmingly unconcerned.

• More than two-thirds (61 per cent) of Indian corporate leaders study revealed that everybody's company is even more likely to have chronic cybercrime in Covid-19 situation compared to a massive 45 per cent global one.

• Nearly one-third of SMBs (30%) assume that cyber-attacks are more likely to occur during COVID 19 now than it was before

• The study suggests whereby, in the current situation, nearly three-fourths (73 per cent) of prominent business decision-makers examined report says that by allowing personal devices to operate from home can cause attacks

• 9 Of the 10 business leaders and decision-makers surveyed in India, 9 believe that the devices they use at home are safe from advanced cyber threats

• In India 72 percent of people use personal devices to do their work, mostly laptops and mobile devices, while 93 percent use a combination of company-issued and personal devices. 

• In India, nearly three-quarters (69%) work more often remotely as a direct consequence of the pandemic, compared to 56% worldwide.

• Smaller firms are less probable for using security firm-provided devices to work at home (35 per cent) medium to bigger businesses (68 per cent), which means they are at excessive or greater risk of not having the required security software deployed on individual measures to prevent cyberattacks.

• Surprisingly and curiously (62 percent) of the Indian companies surveyed, the maximum of all surveyed countries, have presented their
• employees with additional steps to help prevent threats while working remotely.

Conclusion

Organizations are under pressure to respond quickly to the rising number of cyber security threats. Even though there is a
need for information security services that committed to extending to be high, the number of workers required or the required combination
of knowledge and skills in cyber security is hard to predict with certainty.

If you have any queries or help please feel free to contact us IARM Information Security | info@iarminfo.com | www.iarminfo.com

Thanks

Priyadharshini

IARM Information Security - Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing Services | Managed Security Services

The Critical Guide for Assessing Vulnerability and Penetration Testing

Penetration testing and vulnerability assessment is the most extensive playground for auditing. It features
reporting, assessing vulnerabilities, penetration testing and parching of the web/mobile software and media
infrastructure of your company.

Whereas the VAPT testing company in Bangalore evaluation aims at discovering the safety gaps in the program,
penetration testing really exploits the openings found to create a PoC (Proof of Concept).They develop
aspect of the design of protected code and are therefore of extreme issue in the present day there convoluted
cyber-attacks..

Below are a few of the advantages of penetration testing and assessment from the
Penetration testing Company in Bangalore. It's inclusive of the incorporation of surveying for vulnerabilities announcing and parching the web/portable software systems management frame of organization.

What's the importance of VAPT?

VAPT is a method in risk evaluation of web applications. VAPT testing company is prevalent in today's day and the
age of so many cyber assaults also lays a bit of code development. A website not researched for vulnerabilities
may give attackers an option to achieve access.

Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing is a preliminary test for identifying bugs within an application
software, and is easily misinterpreted as two forms of testing. VAPT strives to try to identify and spot bugs.
Penetration Testing is performed to see if the risk is different when the frame is abused and exploited

Below are a few of the advantages of penetration testing and assessment.

1. Discovers vulnerabilities

VAPT Testing Service from Bangalore aim would be to find vulnerabilities. This is because accepted
vulnerabilities' amount is proportional to the skills of this analyzer and the time length of this evaluation.
Be as it may, a test centres around the hazard vulnerabilities and, even if none are found, it explores
vulnerabilities which are low-risk and moderate. That's to enhance the safety of their frameworks
penetration tests and vulnerability assessments should be achieved.

2. Areas vulnerabilities at risk 

Due to the way in which penetration crabbers from a Vulnerability Assessment company in Bengaluru
could attempt to exploit the distinguished vulnerabilities, the customer can recognize what a scammer
should do if these vulnerabilities were misused.Every so often, a vulnerability that is conceivably
delegated as a threat could have been evaluated as a low - to - moderate hazard depending on the
level of difficulty of such a exploitation that penetration crabbers implied was executing.
To show they are higher risk, vulnerabilities at lower risk may has an impact. 

3. Checks competences in cyber-defense 

Through an assessment of the penetration, the security group of the customer should always
have the option to recognize assaults that are peculiar and pay attention if and as required.
The Penetration testing vendors must also be obstructed and if a disturbance is known, the
security team should begin exams and deport their resources from the investigative process.A range
of such cyber-attacks must be identified, concerns should be produced as suggested from the
industry's own operations and interaction by individuals.

Generally, the management of a customer organization does not act with any sensible definition
when problems are marked inside the institution. Despite how security people or organizations raise
a few difficulties to the government, they don't get money or support. In this type of situation,
the review may affect the outcomes and it may distribute assets.

What Will The VAPT BENEFITS?

• Identifies media infrastructure and the web / mobile app risks and vulnerabilities. 
• Affirms the effectiveness of existing security safeguards. 
• Evaluates the sensitive exposure to guidance as well as the processes. 
• It provides recovery actions to safeguard against potential attacks and to detect flaws.
• Strengthens system performance and resource updates / improvements to safety. 
• In some of these, the integrity of resources in case of malicious content hidden. 
• Helps to sustain and achieve conformity with Central and necessary public officials.

CONCLUSION

Penetration testing Provider offer you insight into the security effectiveness of an organization
in addition to a road map.Vulnerabilities may be detected and corrected by recruiting
experts to model a cyber-attack before a hacker or malicious attacker exploits them.

Penetration testing helps address the question, "How reliable are my equipment, infrastructure,
individuals, and physical security in preventing an extraordinarily motivated and
professional hacker?" There's an insight-providing pen assessment.

As the deliverable, a report is supplied In the ending of the penetration test.
The Penetration Testing Company in Bangalore provides a report which includes several
components, such as an executive summary, project methodology, processes examined outline
hazard summary, of findings, and recommendations. The final effect of the evaluation is the
identification or confirmation that systems are procured.

Regards

Priyadharshini

IARM Information Security - Penetration Testing Company | VAPT services in bangalore

Penetration Testing Company in India

Penetration testing has become one of the effective methods of combating vulnerable to cybersecurity. With a rapid increase in cyber breaches taking place across the globe, security-aware organizations are looking for measures to safeguard the database in the most positive manner possible.

The regulations require various companies to adhere to a set of quality requirements, which usually include the use of health evaluation methods such as pen-testing. A collection of opportunities, increased security defences, relatively low-risk production and increased security requirements have chosen to make pen-testing a popular response to prevent breaches of security.

Penetration testing service is an ideal way to identify and fix many IT environment security vulnerabilities within an organization. The outcomes of these experiments lead to different uses including:

• Validate the quality of the safety inspections 
• Providing useful feedback to improve risk control and security programmes 
• Ensure standard measures against cyber threats

The pen-testers evaluate the company's information security protections until they can be breached by real-world attackers. They carry out an overall test that needs IT expertise from experts who are familiar with the hacker core ideology.

IARM, Penetration testing provider helps to identify the type of technical testing that the business demands. The tools, skills and experience needed for a pentest web application, a pentest for mobile apps and a pentest for infrastructure are all different. Once you've defined the possibilities, objectives, criteria, and constraints, you'll need to consider how you want the questionnaire to be carried out.

There are three kinds of pentesting options such as White box, Black box, & grey box tests. The pen-tester consequently needs to be familiar for all three in terms of being able to identify the one that suits your business goals and budget.

Pentesters ought to have access to the business's internal network and confidential information. In IARM, the pentester will reveal how we expect to efficiently manage the data pre and post penetration test. Consequently, getting proper clarification about security and privacy is one of the most crucial success factors in selecting an IARM as a trustable Penetration Testing Company

Critical Points to check in a Report

IARM, Penetration Testing Company In Chennai will willingly share a sample of the reports we have already created. Here are some key points you must check before making choice:

• The report must provide a description of management readable to both the professional and non-technical audience. It will go into depth about the danger and the effects of danger. 
• It would have to include relevant technical aspects to help the IT people bring charges on the technical issues of the observations.
• This will not withdraw any relevant data that could be of importance or threat to your database/vulnerability scanning. 
• All threats reported to your organization must be focused on improving in a Red, Amber, Green identification style and given in-depth. The description will provide an insight into the degree of risk and its potential effect on the company. 
• This will provide comprehensive details on remediation appropriate to your climate. 

Conclusion

Glad IARM, a leading Cyber Security Company In Chennai will be your best-qualified penetration test provider and you'll get a lot of leading cycles for assessment, project management, and reporting.

For more information https://bit.ly/2zfAv9u and mail to info@iarminfo.com 

Thanks and Regards

Priya Dharshini

IARM Information Security - PenetrationTesting Company In Chennai | Penetration Testing Service in Bangalore

Expert's Guide to Remove Maze Ransomware

Hello! Here’s Something about Maze Ransomware! 

This is to notify you regarding a recent Ransomware Attack ( Maze - Ransomware ) which affects one of the leading IT companies.

Based on some of your requests we created a Detail about the attack and Prevention. Hope this may help you to avoid cyber risks
and potential threats which are likely to create disruption in business.

Kindly read the below points which gives a high-level summary of the cybersecurity best practice and recommendations as detailed.

If you would like to know more about this Alert and fixes, please do get in touch with us at IARM Information Security |
info@iarminfo.com | https://www.iarminfo.com/

Synopsis

Like all ransomware, the main goal of the Maze is to encrypt all files that it can in an infected system and then demand a ransom
to recover the files. However, there are things that are not so common to Maze Ransomware that we need to know about 

1. Discovered on May the 29th 2019 by Jerome Segura. [Malware Wiki] 

2. The attacker threatens the victims that; if they do not pay, they will release the information on the Internet. Maze’s operators
have created a dedicated web page, which lists the identities of their non-cooperative victims and regularly publishes samples of
the stolen data. The maze has since published the details of dozens of companies.

 

3. Indicator Of Compromise (IOCs) that one of the recent victims has provided included the IP addresses of servers associated
with the kepstl32.dll, memes.tmp and maze.dll files, which are known to be used previously in Maze ransomware attacks.
Hence it is suspected that they could do targeted attacks, unlike wanacry which was designed to spread by exploiting
Eternal Blue vulnerability. 

4. As with many types of ransomware, there is an offer to decrypt three images for free and that service has been verified as working,
which shows the proof of decryption to lure the victim. 

A Brief Technical Details in 6 steps

1. The PEB field “IsDebuggerPresent”. This field is a Boolean field that is filled from Windows with 1 (True) if the application is running
inside of a debugger or 0 (False) if it is not. If the malware detects a debugger it will remain in an infinite loop without making anything
while wasting system resources. 

2. It can terminate IDA debugger, x32dbg, OllyDbg and more processes to avoid dynamic analysis, close databases,
office programs and security tools 

3. The malware tries to delete the shadow volumes in the system using the “wmic.exe” program with the switches “shadow copy” and “delete”. Prior to this, the malware gets the function of “WoW64DisableWow64FsRedirection” with “GetProcAddress” and uses it to avoid redirection by default in 64-bit operating systems and calls it in a dynamic way. 

4. The malware tries to delete the shadow copies two times, once before encrypting the files in the infected system and secondly after encrypting them. 

5. The malware uses two algorithms to encrypt the files, ChaCha which is based on the Salsa20 algorithm that is symmetric and, for protection, an RSA algorithm that is asymmetric.

6. In each execution, the malware creates a Public BLOB of one RSA key that will be used to crypt the part that holds the information to decrypt the files and one Private BLOB with an RSA key that allows decryption of the information encrypted with the public RSA blob created previously. For detailed information. [Ransomware Maze - Blog - By McAfee] 

Are you planning to reduce your existing expense in the Information/Cybersecurity domain? We can assure you that you will get a quality
service at less price. IARM Information Security, one of the few companies in India to focus exclusively on End-End Information
Security solutions and services.

Point of intrusion 

This Ransomware is known to spread via email attachments by using (spoofing) well known and trusted domain names 

Recommendation 

1. Notify end users to avoid opening any suspicious emails and open attachments from unknown sender/source.
The same goes for links in emails 

2. Update latest security Patch for all devices and OS 

3. Highly recommend to Implement SIEM tool and track security events 

4. Update latest Anti-Virus signature

5. Disable macros in Office programs and never enable them unless it is essential to do 

6. Backup all critical files using 3-2-1 rule. 3 backup copies on 2 different media with 1 backup in a separate location 

7. Disable RDP. If your organization must use RDP, avoid exposing it to the public internet. Only 

devices on the LAN or accessing via VPN, should be able to establish a remote session 

For the Security Operation Center 

MITRE ATT&CK TIDs 

These tactic ids provide stages of an attack that resembles the Maze and similar ransomware, it is highly recommended to
include it in SIEM and Log Analysis if these services are not being monitored. 

Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) 

If you have any queries, feel free to contact us  IARM Information Security | info@iarminfo.com | https://www.iarminfo.com/ 

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