Deception plays an essential role in any game of strategy, providing an opportunity to trick the opponent into exposing their weaknesses and leaving themselves vulnerable. Given its successes, the application of deceptive techniques has been a mainstay of military tactics, sports playbooks, and gambling for...
“IoT-enabled device innovation will continue to outpace the security built into those devices and Federal government regulation will continue to inadequately define the laws and fines required to affect change. State-level regulations will be enacted to improve the situation, but will likely fall short in...
Dixons Carphone has launched an investigation after admitting to a massive data breach involving 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records....
The cost associated with the ransomware attack that crippled the Atlanta city government skyrocketed with the municipality's IT director asking for an additional $9.5 million to deal with the incident's aftermath....
The arrest of several leaders of the Cobalt cybergang, including its leader, has not stopped the group from launching additional attacks with the most recent being tracked late last week....
"The biggest threat posed by cyber-criminals today is their ability to remain undetected in the network for months, once they have bypassed perimeter defences," he said. "New technologies and approaches like deception-based threat detection will be one of the techniques and investments that organisations will...
As medical devices incorporate connectivity, they provide greater opportunities for convenience, service, and information for consumers and companies, but also are increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats. In this environment, Attivo Networks and Becton, Dickinson and Co. (BD) have validated a deception solution for medical technology...
Heightened attention to cybersecurity offensive countermeasures. Cybersecurity has been mostly defense-oriented, but this has never been sufficient. Moving forward, we will see more companies spring up along the lines of Attivo Networks, a leader in deception solutions. Attivo applies deception-based decoy and luring technologies within networks...
Another key way to restack the deck in favor of organizational victims of cyber breaches is for them to embrace an offensive, as well as defensive stance against threat actors. Among the interesting players in this space is Attivo Networks, a leader in deception solutions...
Then, I heard about Attivo and as one of the four CDM judges on our Infosec Awards from 2017, with them being one of our winners, receiving an overwhelming positive vote from the judges, I wanted to dig into what they are up to a...