For many years, Healthcare records have been extremely valuable to the criminal world. In 2014, it was reported that Healthcare records were 10x more valuable than standard financial data – as the opportunity for identity theft and medical fraud utilizing those stolen records was...
The ISE® Southeast Executive Forum and Awards 2017 were held in Atlanta, GA. and we were extremely pleased to learn that two projects, one by Aflac and the other by Home Depot were recognized for their unique use of deception-based detection technology....
It had all the makings of a blockbuster horror movie: Malicious actors, ineffective agents and plenty of cameras. However, in last week’s hack through thousands of IoT devices, the carnage was real. The irony here is that the surveillance cameras companies use to monitor events...
Performing regular assessments to determine the efficacy of security programs is foundational to understanding the reliability of programs, security gaps, compliance issues, and whether security technology is ending up as “shelfware”. To gain continued program support and funding, information security teams are expected to...
Written By: Carolyn Crandall, CMO & Chief Deception Officer -Recently, SC Magazine published an article covering several vulnerabilities that Positive Technologies found in GE supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems where an attacker could intercept passwords and disrupt utility and factory operations. While...
The end of 2016 saw the return of a familiar attack campaign that wipes the disk of any infected computer. Dubbed Shamoon 2, it appears to related to the 2012 Shamoon campaign that targeted an organization in Saudi Arabia and made use of a...
RSA 2017 is in full swing this week and there are a number of sessions that we are classifying as “must see”. We anticipate deception based detection technology to be covered both in formal meetings and information discussions during the conference. However, since...
This week we announced that ThreatOps™ had been added to the Attivo ThreatMatrix™ Deception and Response Platform. The new ThreatOps solution is designed to accelerate incident response by automatically taking disparate attack information to correlate and display it within one dashboard where attacks can...
While the year is only a few weeks old, Attivo Networks is starting 2017 off with several new achievements. Since the beginning of the year, we have announced an exciting new partnership with Check Point Software, released the results of our survey highlighting a dramatic...
This blog has regularly covered the alarming rise in security breaches over the last two years, and the assumption that most security teams are now aware that their prevention solutions are not enough to protect their companies. One measure organizations are taking is the...