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...
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...