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....
Carolyn Crandall, chief deception officer for security company Attivo Networks, says, “Healthcare IT teams need tools in their arsenal that not only defend the network perimeter but also help them detect and respond to in-network threats quickly, efficiently, and effectively.” These tools, of course, include...
By: Carolyn Crandall, Chief Marketing Officer Hackers are always looking for the path of least resistance, and they are increasingly finding it within state and local government networks. While their brethren in the federal government have had their fair share of cybersecurity missteps,...
By: Carolyn Crandall Smart medical devices have incredible potential to save lives and improve our general well-being, but they also present a host of untold threats that have yet to be fully exploited. You’ve probably heard the infamous story by now. Several years ago, it...
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...
We go hands-on with some of the most innovative, useful and, arguably, best security tools from today's most important cybersecurity technology categories.Attivo addresses the one main weakness of most deception technology, having to rely on other programs to respond to an attack once revealed by...
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...
By: Carolyn Crandall When my kids were little, I used to read them “Pat the Bunny,” a “touch and feel” book where they could feel the fur of a rabbit (fake), or sandpaper that represented dad’s scratchy face in the morning. As we have learned...
It's the third major outbreak of the year - here's what we know so far.A new ransomware campaign has hit a number of high profile targets in Russia and Eastern Europe.Dubbed Bad Rabbit, the ransomware first started infecting systems on Tuesday 24 October, and the...