By: Edward Amoroso Years ago, I became aware of a cable TV company whose customers were ripping off pay-per-view content. One root cause involved teenagers replacing their set-top box CPU with a test version of the chip purchased from an on-line TTL dealer. Because the...
Equifax, one of the Big Three credit reporting bureaus that maintains sensitive personal and financial information on just about every adult (and many children) in America, recently revealed that it was the victim of a data breach. An estimated 143 million people had their information...
Attivo Networks® today announced that it has expanded its ThreatDefend™ Deception and Response Platform cloud data center detection support to include Azure deployment capability in addition to existing support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenStack. Additionally, the company announced its ThreatDirect™ solution, which is...
With its Deception and Response Platform, Attivo Networks addresses the main weakness of most deception technology, having to rely on other programs to respond to an attack once revealed by the deception network.Deception technology, deploying fake assets inside real networks to trick and catch attackers,...
The bad news is that cyber security threats are at an all-time high, but the good news is that security awareness is too. It has the attention of every boardroom in the country; the awareness around security is the highest I’ve seen it during my...
Attivo Networks® today announced Attivo ThreatDefend™ now integrates with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (McAfee ePO™) platform to provide a comprehensive solution for advanced threat management and response. This technology integration combines the Attivo ThreatDefend Platform with the McAfee ePO console for increased detection of in-network...
In the recent past, we have seen an alarming trend – attackers becoming faster innovators than the defenders. With increasing complexities around cybersecurity, the need for threat intelligence is becoming more apparent. Ransomware is on the rise. With over 4,000 ransomware attacks occurring per day in...
BBC recaps the latest in hacker technology at Black Hat, BSides, and Defcon....
As deception technology experiences greater attention and adoption, attackers will seek to detect its presence and circumvent basic detection techniques. The Attivo ThreatDefend Platform, from Attivo Networks, a competitor in the 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, is designed to deceive and captivate the most sophisticated of attackers,...
Black Hat USA 2017 - Las Vegas, NV. Another company that we have the chance to sit down with was Attivo Networks. Attivo, if you are not familiar with them specialize in network deception through the use of projected systems. These are systems that do not...