By: Carolyn Crandall In my day-to-day conversations with the security community, including at the 2017 ISSA International Conference held in early October in San Diego, I continue to be surprised by misconceptions some very experienced cybersecurity professionals have about deception technology. I suspect it is...
By: Carolyn Crandall Halloween is here. A time for spooky, scary fun and one of my favorite holidays. When else can you openly become any one that you want to be and "trick" people out of candy. Genius! I love the parallels to deception-based...
By: Carolyn Crandall As Halloween approaches, I was thinking how appropriate that it comes on the last day of Cybersecurity Awareness Month each year. It is oddly fitting that this month Yahoo revised upward the number of people impacted by its 2016 breach from...
By: Carolyn Crandall Last week, Attivo Networks participated in The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)® event in San Diego, CA. With the theme of “the Digital Danger Zone,” the conference focused on topics ranging from incident response to application security to business skills for the...
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), a collaborative public- and private-sponsored campaign with the goal of bringing attention to the importance of cybersecurity. Awareness of cyber risks and education on how to improve cybersecurity strategies are the most powerful tools we have to...
By: Carolyn Crandall This week, Attivo Networks® announced the release of an enhanced version of the ThreatDefend™ Deception and Response Platform that includes cloud data center detection support for Microsoft® Azure. This capability builds on the existing ThreatDefend support for Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
By: Edward Amoroso Years ago, I became aware of a cable TV company whose customers were ripping off pay-per-view content. One root cause involved teenagers replacing their set-top box CPU with a test version of the chip purchased from an on-line TTL dealer. Because the...
Equifax, one of the Big Three credit reporting bureaus that maintains sensitive personal and financial information on just about every adult (and many children) in America, recently revealed that it was the victim of a data breach. An estimated 143 million people had their information...
By: Carolyn Crandall The worldwide public cloud services market is estimated to reach $122.5B in 2017, an increase of 24.4% from 2016 according to a recent IDC report. Companies are rapidly shifting to cloud-based services because of their outstanding convenience and scalability. However, on top...
By: Carolyn Crandall It was heartening for us to see the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) nominated for “Project of the Year” in the Information Security Executive® Award competition for ISE West region. This awards program recognizes information security executives and their teams...