Microsoft delivers unified SIEM and XDR to modernize security operations

The threat landscape continues to increase in both complexity and the level of sophistication of the attacks we observe. Attackers target the most vulnerable resources in an organization and then traverse laterally to target high-value assets. No longer can you expect to stay safe by protecting...

This Week in Security News: Microsoft Fixes 129 Vulnerabilities for September’s Patch Tuesday and Trend Micro’s XDR Offerings Simplify and Optimize Detection and Response

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about this month’s Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft. Also, learn about Trend Micro’s Worry-Free XDR: a new version of its XDR platfo...

Product Overview: Cynet Takes Cyber Threat Protection Automation to the Next Level with Incident Engine

We have all heard of the “cybersecurity skills gap” – the inability of firms to hire and retain high-level cybersecurity talent. This gap has been manifesting in two ways. First, companies that want to hire cybersecurity talent simply cannot find candidates with sufficient skills. Second, compani...

Cynet Takes Cyber Threat Protection Automation to the Next Level with Incident Engine

We have all heard of the "cybersecurity skills gap" — firms' inability to hire and retain high-level cybersecurity talent. I see this gap manifesting in two ways. First, companies that want to hire cybersecurity talent simply cannot find candidates with sufficient skills. Second, companies that...

(Live) Webinar – XDR and Beyond with Autonomous Breach Protection

Anyone paying attention to the cybersecurity technology market has heard the term XDR - Extended Detection and Response. XDR is a new technology approach that combines multiple protection technologies into a single platform. All the analyst firms are writing about it, and many of the top...

Live Webinar: XDR and Beyond

Anyone paying attention to the cybersecurity technology market has heard the term XDR – Extended Detection and Response. It’s a new technology approach that combines multiple protection technologies into a single platform. All the analyst firms are writing about it and many of the top cybersecuri...

RPCbind XDR Parsing Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service (CVE-2017-8779)

A resource exhaustion vulnerability exists in rpcbind, within its associated library libtirpc. The vulnerability is due to an unbounded memory leak when parsing XDR strings. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted RPC messages to the vulnerable server...

XDR Defined

The EDR market is going through the biggest period of change and innovation now. Historically, endpoint detection and response EDR was created to provide borderline protection for a system. It provides coverage for endpoints in an attack, and the result is an endpoint security that covers many...

XDR: The Next Level of Prevention, Detection and Response [New Guide]

One new security technology we keep hearing about is Extended Detection and Response XDR. This new technology merges multiple prevention and detection technologies on a single platform to better understand threat signals so that you don't need to purchase, integrate, and manage various control an...

PAN-OS: URL filtering policy is not enforced on TLS handshakes for decrypted HTTPS sessions

When SSL/TLS Forward Proxy Decryption mode has been configured to decrypt the web transactions, the PAN-OS URL filtering feature inspects the HTTP Host and URL path headers for policy enforcement on the decrypted HTTPS web transactions but does not consider Server Name Indication SNI field within...

ESG Findings on Trend Micro Cloud-Powered XDR Drives Monumental Business Value

This material was published by ESG Research Insights Report, Validating Trend Micro’s Approach and Enhancing GTM Intelligence, 2020. The post ESG Findings on Trend Micro Cloud-Powered XDR Drives Monumental Business Value appeared first on...

This Week in Security News: 15 Billion Credentials Currently Up for Grabs on Hacker Forums and New Mirai Variant Expands Arsenal

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about how fifteen billion usernames and passwords for a range of internet services are currently for sale on underground forums. Also,...

Beyond the Endpoint: Why Organizations are Choosing XDR for Holistic Detection and Response

The endpoint has long been a major focal point for attackers targeting enterprise IT environments. Yet increasingly, security bosses are being forced to protect data across the organization, whether it’s in the cloud, on IoT devices, in email, or on-premises servers. Attackers may jump from one...

VMware Launches Next-Gen SOC Alliance with Splunk, IBM Security, Google Cloud’s Chronicle, Exabeam, and Sumo Logic

Today at Connect 2020, our company's annul cybersecurity conference, we made some exciting announcements, including the creation of a Next-Gen SOC Alliance. The alliance empowers SOC teams with visibility, prevention, detection and response capabilities that can uniquely leverage the VMware fabri...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : rpcbind (EulerOS-SA-2020-1567)

According to the version of the rpcbind package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc libntirpc, a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for rpcbind (EulerOS-SA-2020-1567)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

5 reasons to move your endpoint security to the cloud now

As the world has adopts work from home initiatives, we’ve seen many organizations accelerate their plans to move from on-premises endpoint security and Detection and Response EDR/XDR solutions to Software as a Service versions. And several customers who switched to the SaaS version last year,...

AZL-44829 CVE-2020-11765 affecting package OpenEXR 2.3.0-6

An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before 2.4.1. There is an off-by-one error in use of the ImfXdr.h read function by DwaCompressor::Classifier::Classifier, leading to an out-of-bounds read...

Traps: Insecure temporary file vulnerability may allow privilege escalation on Windows

An insecure temporary file vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Traps allows a local authenticated Windows user to escalate privileges or overwrite system files. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks Traps 5.0 versions before 5.0.8; 6.1 versions before 6.1.4 on Windows; all versions of 6.0, 4.2,...

Riding another wave of success for our multi-layered detection and response approach

The corporate endpoint is a constant battle between cybersecurity white hats and criminal attackers. According to one study from the Ponemon Institute, 68% of organizations were victims of an attack on the endpoint in 2019. The risks and costs associated with undetected threats are immeasurable...