Deception a Hot Topic for 2016 and Next Week’s RSA
Deception looks like it is shaping up to be a hot topic at next week’s RSA event in San Francisco—as well as all of 2016. So you may ask...
Blogs
Healthcare Industry Under Attack… Nasty Strain of Malware Resurfaces and Challenges Security Operations Team with Rapid Mutations
Attivo Networks has worked closely with many healthcare organizations over the last year to add inside-the-network detection for when prevention systems have failed. This blog takes a closer look at what organizations are finding and what healthcare security operations teams can do to better defend...
Qakbot Malware… It’s Back, Nastier Than Ever, and with a BullsEye on Healthcare
This blog provides a brief overview of how Qakbot works in the Kill Chain and how by adding in the Attivo Deception Platform, security operations teams can quickly detect, analyze and remediate against these threats....
Attivo Networks Enhances Platform to Detect All Classes of Cyber Threats
Reading Time: 2 minutes | Published: January 27, 2016
in Attivo (Company), Blogs, BOTsink Solutions, Threat Detection
This week, Attivo Networks™ announced it has expanded its deception platform to include all classes of cyber threats, including reconnaissance, stolen credentials, phishing and ransomware attacks. The goal is nothing less than to defend Attivo customers from every form of cyber attack with real-time...
Attivo Networks Announces Real-Time Cyber Attack Detection for SCADA Devices
Reading Time: 3 minutes | Published: December 7, 2015
in Attivo (Company), Blogs, BOTsink Solutions, Energy
I am pleased to share that today Attivo Networks® announced a new release of its deception-based Attivo BOTsink® solution that provides continuous threat detection on Industrial Control Systems (ICS) SCADA devices used to monitor and control most manufacturing operations as well as critical infrastructure such...
Deception Technologies Are Much More than Dressed Up DecoyDocs!
With a growing number of companies looking to add deception as part of their layered security defense, it is fairly common for me to be at an event or talking with a prospect and be asked, “Isn’t deception technology just a honeypot?” I can...
Minimizing False Positives in Cloud Security Monitoring
Monitoring security events is an essential but challenging task. Enterprises run large numbers of applications on a variety of platforms. Some applications are monolithic and run on isolated machines such as mainframes. Others are highly distributed systems that rely on a complex web of services...
Time Is Not On Your Side!
Reading Time: 2 minutes | Published: November 13, 2015
in Attivo (Company), Blogs, BOTsink Solutions, Information Relay Entrapment System
When The Rolling Stones sang “Time Is on My Side,” they clearly weren’t talking cyber security. Time is the friend of the cyber criminal and the enemy of IT and security teams. ...
Why Even the Best Cyber Security Solutions Fall Short
“A security solution is only as good as the weakest link” is one of those hackneyed phrases that keep popping up because it’s true. As the cyber attacks become increasingly sophisticated and numerous, the number of potential weak links also grows. Weak links can span...
Limits of Amazon Web Services Security Controls and the Need for Deception Technology
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a range of robust security controls but relying solely on AWS to ensure information security is a mistake. Amazon makes clear that public clouds entail a shared security model. Amazon will manage physical security, implement network security, lock down hypervisors,...