"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...
“As the cybersecurity industry gathers at RSA this week, we are honored to be recognized by the 2019 InfoSec Awards as a proven leader in deception solutions and in detecting advanced threats,” said Attivo Networks CEO, Tushar Kothari. “With the Attivo Networks platform, customers can...
Fremont, CA – February 25, 2019 –Attivo Networks took home five 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognizing the company’s rapid growth and technology leadership. Attivo Networks won gold awards in the Fastest Growing Cybersecurity Company and Best Cybersecurity Startup categories. Additionally, the company’s ThreatDefend™ Deception and...
Today, cyberattacks aim to steal information or hijack infrastructure. While these threats are damaging enough, nation states and bad actors are not resting on their laurels. Next up in their nasty bag of tricks is blowing a hole in data integrity via unauthorized data changes,...
Enhancement to ThreatDefend™ Platform Delivers Adversary Intelligence, Dramatically Reducing a Defender’s Response and Remediation Time FREMONT, Calif. – February 12, 2019 – Attivo Networks today introduced the Informer solution, a deception-based forensic collection offering that delivers real-time forensics with enhanced visibility. As the latest expansion...
Founder of the Honeynet Project joins the company, applying deep industry knowledge towards continuous advancements in deception technology. FREMONT, Calif. – January 29, 2019 – Attivo Networks welcomes Lance Spitzner, a pioneer for deception and cyber intelligence and advocate for cybersecurity awareness, as the newest...
Cybersecurity is a fast-moving field and education has a hard time keeping up. Traditional colleges and universities are often behind the curve when it comes to cybersecurity, so how are future security engineers and CISOs learning the ropes? How will companies find them? And, when...
The Attivo Networks ThreatDefend solution is a deception-based platform that provides early and accurate detection of in-network threats and automation to accelerate attack analysis and incident response. The platform is based on decoys, lures, application, and data deceptions that misdirect, deter, and derail threats at initial compromise...
The over-arching goal for any cyber deception system is to create target computing and networking systems and infrastructure that will be indistinguishable by an adversary from actual assets – including both live production and test environments. While this would seem an obvious consideration, it turns...