Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in the 2021 Enterprise Email Security Wave

Today, organizations face an evolving threat landscape and an exponentially increasing attack surface. Email represents the primary attack vector for cybercrime, and security teams are in search of efficient and cost-effective means to minimize the risk of these threats and the impact they have o...

Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in the 2021 Enterprise Email Security Wave

Today, organizations face an evolving threat landscape and an exponentially increasing attack surface. Email represents the primary attack vector for cybercrime, and security teams are in search of efficient and cost-effective means to minimize the risk of these threats and the impact they have o...

The Convergence of Endpoint Protection with Detection & Response

By almost every account, trend, or metric, the cybersecurity threat landscape is getting worse year over year. According to Qualys Labs, 2020 saw the highest number of vulnerabilities ever recorded. The average time it takes to patch vulnerabilities is months not weeks or days. Ransomware payouts...

Observed Changes to the Threat Landscape in 2020

Reflecting on the cybersecurity threat landscape in 2020, we can't overlook the massive changes that landed on us. Global security attacks increased at a significant pace between 2019 and 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic only deepened these troubling conditions...

Meet critical infrastructure security compliance requirements with Microsoft 365

Critical infrastructure operators face a hostile cyber threat environment and a complex compliance landscape. Every operator of an industrial control system also operates an IT network to service its productivity needs. A supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system operator of a power...

Ransomware by the numbers: Reassessing the threat’s global impact

Kaspersky has been following the ransomware landscape for years. In the past, weve published yearly reports on the subject: PC ransomware in 2014-2016, Ransomware in 2016-2017, and Ransomware and malicious crypto miners in 2016-2018. In fact, in 2019, we chose ransomware as the story of the year,...

MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 7: Managed Response Actions

This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response MDR providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.” Security teams face unprecedented challenges as the threat landscape expands in scope and complexity. More...

Secure unmanaged devices with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now

As we have entered into new hybrid work environments, businesses need to think about how they will proactively protect their organizations from the influx of new or “bring your own” BYO connected devices. This new normal has exposed the most challenging cybersecurity landscape we’ve ever...

Recording: Analyzing Android Malware — From triage to reverse-engineering

It's easy to get wrapped up worry about large-scale ransomware attacks on the threat landscape. These are the types of attacks that make headlines and strike fear into the hearts of CISOs everywhere. But if you want to defend the truly prolific and widespread threats that target some of the...

2021: Volumetric DDoS Attacks Rising Fast

In our 2020 DDoS retrospective, we highlighted the twists and turns of a very, very active threat landscape. As a quick refresher, we mitigated some of the largest attacks ever seen 1.44 Tbps and 809 Mpps; saw more attacks on customers across more diverse industries than ever before; and observed...

Women in Security Part 6: Meet Nandini De, Director of Engineering

This post is part of our Women’s History Month series - follow along with us on Twitter @VMwareCarbonBlack To conclude Women’s History Month, we are thrilled to bring you the last spotlight of our Women in Security series. It’s been an honor to highlight the outstanding women in the VMware Securi...

Securing our approach to domain fronting within Azure

Every single day our teams analyze the trillions of signals we see to understand attack vectors, and then take those learnings and apply them to our products and solutions. Having that understanding of the threat landscape is key to ensuring our customers are kept safe every day. However, being a...

Threat landscape for industrial automation systems. Statistics for H2 2020

Figures Indicator | H1 2020 | H2 2020 | 2020 ---|---|---|--- Global percentage of attacked ICS computers | 32.6% | 33.42% | 38.55% Percentage of attacked ICS computers by region Northern Europe | 10.1% | 11.5% | 12.3% Western Europe | 15.1% | 14.8% | 17.6% Australia | 16.3% | 17.0% | 18.9% United...

VMware Carbon Black Ranks Among Top 10 of 100 Cybersecurity Companies by the University of San Diego

We are proud to announce that VMware Carbon Black has been ranked within the top 10 organizations on the University of San Diego Cybersecurity Team’s annual list of the Top 100 Cybersecurity Companies of 2020. The annual list of cybersecurity companies highlights the most influential players in a...

Introducing the 2020 Vulnerability Intelligence Report: 50 CVEs that Made Headlines in 2020

2020 was a tumultuous year for vulnerability risk management. Defenders had to contend with a growing volume of high-priority security threats, many of them in internet-facing technologies deployed to enable and secure a suddenly remote workforce. New communications from the U.S. National Securit...

Microsoft Exchange attacks cause panic as criminals go shell collecting

Only last week we posted a blog about multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server in limited and targeted attacks. Seeing how this disclosure came with a patch being available, under normal circumstances you would see some companies update...

Google Will Use 'FLoC' for Ad Targeting Once 3rd-Party Cookies Are Dead

Signaling a major shift to its ads-driven business model, Google on Wednesday unequivocally stated it would not build alternate identifiers or tools to track users across multiple websites once it begins phasing out third-party tracking cookies from its Chrome browser by early 2022. "Instead, our...

Mobile Adware Booms, Online Banks Become Prime Target for Attacks

Hackers painted a bullseye on the backs of online financial institutions in 2020 as the pandemic shuttered local branch offices and forced customers online. Over the past 12 months, incidents of adware nearly tripled. And, overall in 2020 researchers saw a slight drop in the number of mobile...

How to Achieve and Maintain Continuous Cloud Compliance

This blog is part of an ongoing series sharing key takeaways from Rapid7’s 2020 Cloud Security Executive Summit. Interested in participating in the next summit on Tuesday, March 9? Register here! There are two things that make data a hot topic. First, keeping track of your organization’s sheer...

Securing Azure datacenters with continuous IoT/OT monitoring

Figure 1: Industrial cooling system for datacenters. As more intelligent devices and machinery become connected to the internet, Operational Technology OT and the Internet of Things IoT have become part of your enterprise network infrastructure—and a growing security risk. With every new factory...