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...
The greatest military strategists in history have lived by the philosophy of an “active defense” or the notion that “the best defense is a good offense.” This sentiment rings true now more than ever as enterprises across the globe remain at risk of a major...
Attivo Networks® today announced that DMN has named Carolyn Crandall, chief deception officer and chief marketing officer, as one of its Hall of Femme 2018 Honorees. Nominees for induction are carefully selected based on their achievements, approach to marketing, and mentorship. DMN is the leading...
Written by: Tony Cole, Attivo Networks CTO There are a lot of questions around why deception technology is applicable to cyber defense. There are many insightful answers to this question. The most pertinent one is that it allows you to shrink adversary dwell time...
The patterns of cyber attacks are well known and so are the targets. The bad guys are seeking to break in to get valuable data or take actions that benefit them, and want to go undetected for as long as possible. There are a number...
Security-focused service providers that don't have a deception strategy, take note: This market is on track to hit $1.5 billion by 2021 and can be the cure to the false-positive blues. MSPs looking to spot malicious insiders trying to move laterally through a network and reduce attacker dwell...
An active defense is the use of offensive actions to outmaneuver an adversary and make an attack more difficult and to carry out. Slowing down or derailing the attacker so they cannot advance or complete their attack increases the probability that the attacker will make a mistake and expose their presence or reveal...
Attivo Networks will present alongside the FBI at this year’s FS-ISAC Annual Summit, held May 20-23 in Boca Raton, Fla. This year’s event theme is Strength in Sharing and will focus on how to solve the challenges of the evolving threat landscape and support corporate...
Deception technology is an emerging category of cyber defense that is particularly useful when it comes to IoT devices, SCADA systems and medical devices. Threatpost talks to Tony Cole, CTO of Attivo Networks, about how deception technology has evolved, the challenges behind and opportunities of...
Security professionals have long dismissed security by obscurity or attempts to hide information from hackers. In such schemes, hackers will sniff through the decoys and find the real assets. A new class of security technology – distributed deception – may change that thinking. Distributed deception...