Cyber Security Through Technology Risk Management

URL Shortening Shortened URLs  offers several benefits by playing a vital role in digital marketing by  transforing lengthy URL into short and simple URL which can be shared on social media, blogs, emails and more. It is a technique that will redirect your short URL to specific website of your choice.  How ever short URLs produced by services like bit.ly and goo.gl, can be brute-forced.  And searching random shortened URLs could yield all sorts of secret documents. Plus, many of them can be edited, and can be infected with malware. Below image depicts the technique used by shortened URLs

SANS Institute and Center for Internet Security (CIS) together with other organizations, developed the 20 Critical Security Controls (CSC) for Effective Cyber Defense. CIS Controls are not a replacement for any existing compliance framework such ISMS, NIST, CSF, PCI etc, rather it’s core building block toward any GRC journey.