"If you’re sitting in a sensitive position in government, you’re definitely a target,” Tony Cole, chief technology officer at Attivo Networks and a former FireEye, Symantec and McAfee executive, told me. “That’s why it’s critically important to stick to government systems. If you don’t, you’re...
Militaries have been using deception for millennia. Cybercriminals use it every day. But cybersecurity vendors are fighting back. Robert Scammell talks to Attivo Networks CTO Tony Cole to find out how military-inspired traps are snaring cyber threats before they get a chance to attack. During World War II, a...
This year’s RSA Conference is a key venue for companies to showcase their new cybersecurity products. Here are some of the more interesting tools to check out. The Informer is a deception-based, real time forensic collection offering that extends Attivo's ThreatDefend Detection and Response platform....
No industry is immune to hacking. In this digital age, no organisation can be considered as entirely safe from cybercriminals. As organisations invest in transformational technologies to streamline operations, maximise efficiencies and increase open communications, they are also introducing new gateways for criminals to enter...
Data stolen in breaches years ago is still surfacing in financial crimes today, proving that getting over past breaches is hard to do. Simply doing more of the same won’t fix our current challenges.Just within the past six months, the secretary of the Department of...
Short of that, it’s key to remember that you are the target and you must adapt to the inevitability of a breach. Prepare for the inevitable by hunting, using active cyber defense, building a real security awareness training program and leveraging the home-field advantage....
By: Ray Kafity Things are heating up in the Middle East when it comes to cyberattacks, with entire industries, including regional governments, feeling the brunt. So much so, that mainstay industries like Banking & Finance, Oil & Gas, and Retail are increasingly finding themselves in...
Next-Gen Deception Technology Enhances Ease of Use, Automation, and the Scalability Required for Wide-Scale Adoption. Attivo Networks today announced new advanced capabilities that use machine learning to automatically generate and deploy the most authentic deception that covers an extensive set of attack vectors at scale...
Written by: Nick Palmer, Attivo Networks Technical Director, Europe I’ve come a long way in my view of more traditional security controls. For the longest time, I labored under the misapprehension that endpoint solutions were just signature based and that SIEM solutions’ primary value was in retrospective...
It is a long-held maxim in cybersecurity that the bad guys have the advantage. They only have to succeed once, but the good guys have to stop them every time. So it is always interesting and often important when a new method comes along that...