This year’s Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit had a very clear message: You need an adaptive defense to survive today’s onslaught of cyber threats. Building on Gartner’s Adaptive Security Architecture vision, the message was on extending abilities and the need to be continuously adaptive...
This week Attivo Networks announced the release of the new ThreatDefend™ Detection and Response Platform. It represents the next generation of distributed deception solutions and has been built to outmaneuver modern-day attackers that are anticipating detection technology as a security control. In addition, the...
Immediately following the WannaCry attack, CISOs started to examine ways they could improve their ransomware defenses (we described the deception solution in our recent blog Deception Derails Ransomware: WannaCry Analyzed by Attivo Labs.) Following the initial attacks, TrendMicro has seen three new entries, UIWIX, Adylkuzz and...
This month, Attivo Networks company executives have been featured speakers at FS-ISAC and CS050, as well as the National Healthcare ISAC (NH-ISAC) “Master of Deceptions” Summit and the OpenStack Summit on the importance of deception technology and its increasing significance in today’s cyber security landscape....
As ransomware attacks continue to claim hundreds of thousands of victims, organizations are scrambling to figure out if their current security tools can effectively stop, detect, and remediate large-scale ransomware attacks. While the major WannaCry ransomware attack was stopped by an uncovered kill switch, experts...
Q&A with Carolyn Crandall, CMO at Attivo Networks Fortinet sits down with Fabric-Ready Partner, Attivo Networks, to learn what’s top of mind for its customers, the key IT challenges they are facing, and how Attivo Networks’ approach to integrated security is helping drive business and customer...
Yesterday, a huge outbreak of phishing emails was discovered around 11:30 PT when an unknown organization sent out emails saying that someone from the recipient’s contacts list shared a Google document with them. A Google spokesperson said that the company has disabled the accounts...
Written by: Carolyn Crandall, CMO & Chief Deception Officer - Most companies have invested heavily in perimeter defenses, but there remains a gap in detection, which leaves risk and exposure to attack. Internal network monitoring remains a challenging task, and while there are many...
Organizations continue to state that deploying effective and efficient incident response remains one of their top ongoing challenges. Unfortunately, there isn’t an easy solution since the goal line continues to move back, while the “game” gets increasingly more complex. CSIRTs battle with a...
According to a new study by Trend Micro, there is a reason ransomware continues to dominate the security news cycle. The study found that new ransomware families increased a whopping 752% in 2016. The report adds that the availability of open source ransomware and...