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Cyber security regulations and frameworks in Belgium 🇧🇪

Explore Belgium cyber security regulations and frameworks like NIS2, GDPR, DORA, and ISO 27001 to ensure your business stays compliant and secure.

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30.4.2025

What is the NIS2 Law in Belgium? 🇧🇪 Introduction to requirements

Learn what the Belgian NIS2 Law is, Belgium’s national implementation of the EU NIS2 Directive. Understand key requirements, compliance timelines, sector coverage, and how Cyberday helps you meet them.

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29.4.2025

What is CyberFundamentals? 🇧🇪 Belgium's cybersecurity framework

Learn what is CyberFundamentals, Belgium's cybersecurity framework for SMEs. Get an overview of requirements, benefits, and steps for compliance.

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29.4.2025

10 things I wish I knew: Starting your ISO 27001 project on the right track

This post shares 10 key lessons learned from going through an ISO 27001 certification project - from the importance of setting clear goals and managing documentation to the realities of risk management and the value of using the right tools.

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23.4.2025

Understanding NIS2: supervision and penalties of non-compliance

Let's now look into the NIS2 directive, it's supervision in EU member states and what is supervised. We'll also check out NIS2 penalties for noncompliance and how you can stay compliant (to avoid penalties).

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15.4.2025

Comparing EU cybersecurity frameworks: NIS2, GDPR, DORA and more

A comparison of key cybersecurity frameworks in the EU, including NIS2, GDPR, DORA, CRA, and ISO 27001. Learn who they apply to and what they require.

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10.4.2025

ISO 27001 compliance vs. certification: differences, benefits & which path to choose

Understanding when to pursue ISO 27001 compliance rather than going for certification—or vice versa—hinges on your organizational priorities, resources, and long-term security strategies. Check the differences and learn which path to choose.

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1.4.2025

Framework recap, US security & and role management: Cyberday product and news summary 3/2025 🛡️

The March product and news update presents updates to role management and the new Trust Center, a review of the key frameworks for 2025 and US security.

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28.3.2025

Is remote work the new normal?

As COVID-19 continues to spread, remote work is no longer an experiment, but a requirement in many nations. While it represents a huge change, the results of a research conducted by OnePoll and Citrix, reveal that a majority of employees around the world are adapting to working from home and believe it will become the new normal for the way work gets done. “Remote work is not business as usual. It represents a totally new … More → The post Is remote work the new normal? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
CyberNow

Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors

Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors, a new report by VMware Carbon Black released at RSA Conference 2020 has revealed. The report uncovers the top attack tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) seen over the last year and provides specific guidance on ransomware, commodity malware, wipers, access mining and destructive attacks. Among some of the key findings from the report: Defense evasion behavior was seen in more than 90 percent of the 2,000 samples they … More → The post Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Malware

Hackers are actively exploiting zero-days in several WordPress plugins

There's quite the WordPress p0wnage going on right now.

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities

The “Great Cannon” has been deployed again

SummaryThe Great Cannon is a distributed denial of service tool (“DDoS”) that operates by injecting malicious Javascript into pages served from behind the Great Firewall. These scripts, potentially served to millions of users across the internet, hijack the users’ connections to make multiple requests against the targeted site.

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15.5.2020
Denial-of-Service Attacks

What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions?

Human beings are poor judges of risk. For example, we perceive the risk of air travel to be higher than it actually is after a fatal aviation-related accident happens. We also tend to dismiss risks just because we don’t see a tangible negative impact right away. This is, for example, what prevents many from making dental hygiene a priority: we all know dental hygiene is critical to our health and a relatively easy “investment”, but … More → The post What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Employee Negligence

Ako Ransomware Uses Spam to Infect Its Victims

It has been discovered that the network-targeting Ako ransomware is being distributed through malicious spam attachments that pretend to be a requested agreement. Last week we reported on the Ako Ransomware and how it was targeting companies with the intent to encrypt their entire network. ID Ransomware Submissions David Pickett, a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at AppRiver, reached out to BleepingComputer yesterday to tell us that his company saw the Ako ransomware being distributed through spam email. Spam email distributing the Ako Ransomware Attached to these emails is a password-protected zip file named agreement.zip with the password '2020' being given in the email. Agreement.zip Archive As shown by this report from JoeSandbox, when Ako is executed it will encrypt the victim's files and leave them with a ransom note named ako-readme.txt. Ako Ransom Note As spam is being used to spread the Ako Ransomware, everyone must be is trained on how to properly identify malicious email and not open any attachments without first confirming who and why they were sent.

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

Oscar Nominated Movies Featured in Phishing, Malware Attacks

Attackers are exploiting the hype surrounding this year's Oscar Best Picture nominated movies to infect fans with malware and to bait them to phishing websites designed to steal sensitive info such as credit card details and personal information. [...]

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15.5.2020
Phishing

Why You Should Be Prepared to Fight Against Advanced Persistent Threats

APTs may already be targeting your organization. You need to formulate comprehensive cybersecurity strategies, implement robust and stringent security measures, and test your defenses to ensure that you’re protected.

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15.5.2020
CyberNow

How Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your website

By Waqas Why a Web application firewall is a vital tool to keep websites safe from cyber attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your website

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities