By: Carolyn Crandall An African proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” There are many challenges that come with being a channel partner: margins are under pressure, customers’ expectations change daily, and new...
By: Joseph R. Salazar In 1992, Robert Redford starred with Dan Akroyd, Sidney Poitier, David Strahairn, and River Phoenix in a little-known but well-received movie called Sneakers. In the movie, Redford plays Martin Bishop, who heads a team of security experts who hire themselves...
By: Carolyn Crandall The Trump Hotel Collection (THC) recently reported it has suffered its third data breach in three years. It seems not even a President’s property is safe. Trump Hotels has not revealed how many customers the breach might have impacted but shared that compromised...
Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” Black Hat anticipates that they had a 20% increase in attendance over the 15,000 that attended in 2016. Attendees flooded the halls with eager anticipation to discover new...
Black Hat 2017 is going strong today and deception-based detection technology is of high interest from the feedback we’ve received so far at the booth, as well as from meetings with the media and industry analysts. The week started out with a bang. On...
Last week Dow Jones, the business and financial news company that owns the Wall Street Journal, admitted that 2.2 million customers' details were exposed due to an Amazon S3 bucket misconfiguration. They are not alone and follow similar mishaps reported by Verizon, World Wrestling...
Does this sound familiar? On June 27, news outlets began reporting on a ransomware attack that was spreading like wildfire, hitting over 300,000 devices across over 150 countries and counting. The attack utilized the EternalBlue exploit that was stolen from the NSA and released by...
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...