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Welcome Simen Bai!
Join us in welcoming our future rockstar, Simen Bai to the position as Security Researcher! Throughout interview-rounds and his participation in our h…
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Part 2 – Acquiring Talent in Information Security
This is a continuation of Part 1 – Acquiring Talent In Information Security. Assessing New Prospects Being able to discern the ones who “can talk the …
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Part 1 – Acquiring Talent In Information Security
Hiring Great Fantastic Penetration Testers What does it take to become a successful penetration tester? How do you identify, hire and stimulate your s…
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Karina Årland – Account Executive – Welcome!
We are incredibly happy to announce our latest member to the team, Karina Årland, joining us from Beerenberg! We welcome her to the position as Accoun…
Incident Response
Incident Response – Practicing and Gamification
I recently published a video on YouTube on the aspect of practicing Incident Response scenarios, applying elements of gamification and planning out ho…
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Happy Birthday to River Security
At the time of writing, River Security has turned one year old and looking back, we realize what a fantastic year it has been! As most one-year-olds a…
Attack Surface Management
OODA Loops, Speed and Agility
To beat attackers at their own game, it is imperative River Security is able to more rapidly detect, uncover and find flaws in our customers environme…
Attack Surface Management
Know Your Enemy
River Security follow closely the attackers’ behaviors and attack techniques. In studying attackers Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP’s), our to…
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New employee!
The current threat landscape, where the number of cyberattacks are rapidly increasing, sets requirements for cybersecurity companies to always be on t…
Attack Surface Management
Ransomware Roulette – Level up or pay up
As we all know, at least to some extent, cryptocurrency solved the main problem (if we ask threat actors, that is) in ransomware and extortion attacks…
Incident Response
Cyber Warfare – The threat of the 0-day – Is there nothing we can do?
Introduction Breaking news within our Cyber Security domain has become almost an everyday business; Cyber-Warfare and crime has become an everyday thr…
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Welcoming Jan Petter Dale to the team as Technical Account Manager & Security Analyst
We are extremely happy to welcome Jan Petter Dale (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-petter-dale-6794a0174/) to our team. Jan Petter will join the team …
Incident Response
Will your backup save you?
The Norwegian cruise company Hurtigruten was recently targeted with a successful attack directed towards large portions of their IT infrastructure. Ju…
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In search of ethical hackers
In River, we always seek to challenge the norm and the methodology set. This also involves our way of recruiting. This topic, of finding new ethical h…
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Do you want to join us? – See what our latest hire says about the process joining River Security
As part of our on-going strategy to only employ the best and most qualified people, we held a quite difficult (and complex) hacking competition during…
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Say welcome to our latest hire – Krister Kvaavik!
Krister will have his first day with us today. “Coming from Bouvet, having great and competent colleagues, expectations are high. I have had a conside…
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Breaking Into Information Security
People have continually been contacting me for mentorship, positions in their company or in general about how to get started in the Information Securi…
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Share and prepare
We frequently help customers deal with data-breaches and compromise, both organization-wide and incidents limited to a handful of devices. When the br…
Incident Response
Wake up. Don’t get your email compromised
NRK, the biggest Norwegian television broadcaster and news medium called us last week and asked, “how does actually email accounts get hacked (so easi…
Incident Response
Leaked Credentials and Vulnerabilities Lead to Compromise
Several companies have been hacked in Norway the past few weeks (Intersport, NHH), and internationally we’ve seen the same (Intel, Canon, Garmin). Riv…
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The Infosec & OSINT Show – Breaking up the recon and pentest produces better results
Today the podcast Infosec & OSINT show was released, and our Founder and Principal Consultant Chris Dale participated on the show. He explains why bre…
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Interview: XSS Rat & Chris Dale
Chris Dale was invited to do a webcast with XSS Rat, and why not give back to the community and say yes? The webcast discussed the following topics: H…
News
15 minute podcast – We share our passion on cyber security
15 minutes for a podcast is perfect! It’s not too long, not too short and we got to share the most important things. Last month we did an in studio re…