Thinking about Options, three words that spring to mind are leadership, ambition, and learning. Having joined as a 20-year-old placement student, I perhaps had the standard mental checklist of items…
If you caught Groundhog Day over the holiday period, you may know where this blog is going. Yes, we have another log4j vulnerability! Similar to the one announced on 18th December, this…
As mentioned in previous blogs, the "Log4shell" zero-day is an ever-moving target and this, in part, is due to the scale of the issue. Log4j is very popular and its usage is…
“A new day, a new variant” is an all too familiar headline and unfortunately, we are discussing this again in the world of Log4j vulnerabilities. As discussed in our blog…
As the global response to the Log4Shell zero-day was starting to settle into the long game of "scan and patch" we were all thrown a (relatively small) curve ball yesterday.…
14th December 2021 True to form with recent high-profile zero-day vulnerabilities, the Log4j issue is set to run and run. The first 48 to 72 hours are always critical, and,…
13th December 2021 Late on Thursday 9th and into Friday 10th of December 2021, we began to see reports of a new zero-day vulnerability found in the popular Apache Log4j…
Options has continued to evolve to support our clients in the wake of an ever-changing, increasingly difficult to navigate threat landscape. Over the last year, there have been more zero-day…
As Options welcomes its latest 2021 graduate intake, it made me think about how 12 months ago, I was in the same position, filled with a mixture of excitement and…
One core belief in the Options’ security team is that in many cases, the risk presented by an exploit is proportional to the square of the time required to address…
