Excerpts from Moving Endpoint Security to the Predictive Cloud: Security Meets Big Data

Carbon Black recently published a whitepaper on the reasons and benefits of moving endpoint security to the cloud; this is the first excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how the Cb Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's comprehensive endpoint protection...

The Perfect Storm:  Cyberspace Requires Defense in the Cloud

Cyberspace is a free-fire zone. Corporations are regularly under siege from multiple threat actors. The cyber-arms bazaar that flourishes around the world has allowed criminals and nations to wage long-term campaigns against corporations and government agencies. These attackers stalk businesses a...

Excerpts from Moving Endpoint Security to the Predictive Cloud: Introduction

Carbon Black recently published a whitepaper on the reasons and benefits of moving endpoint security to the cloud; this is the first excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how the Cb Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's comprehensive endpoint protection...

Cloud & Big Data: The Future of Security – Carbon Black & VMware’s 15-City Tour “Cloud Force Security” Kicks Off Feb. 20!

Endpoint Security is Broken Attackers are innovating faster than traditional defenses can keep up. In response, the security stack has become too complicated as more products that don’t work together are introduced to fill the gaps. There is a better way. Organizations are moving their endpoint a...

Security Glue Between the Silos of Endpoint, Server, Cloud and Network Security Gets More Critical

Endpoint and Host security techniques have diverged. There used to be considerable similarity between the techniques and tools used to secure desktops, servers, and even networks. Desktops evolved to become Endpoints, as mobile devices proliferated and they were assembled into a collective of bei...

Gojdue Variant Eludes Microsoft, Google Cloud Protection, Researchers Say

Researchers have identified a new ransomware strain that went undetected by built-in anti-malware protection used by cloud heavyweights Microsoft and Google as recently as January. According to researchers at the cloud service firm Bitglass, both Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365’s SharePoint...

January 10, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Common Sense” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 10, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Seven Ransomware...

AMD PSP fTPM Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

AMD PSP suffers from an fTPM remote code execution vulnerability that can be performed through a crafted EK certificate. Introduction ============ AMD PSP 1 is a dedicated security processor built onto the main CPU die. ARM TrustZone provides an isolated execution environment for sensitive and...

AWS infrastructure Security Auditing: Cloud Security Suite

CS Suite is a one stop tool for auditing the security posture of the AWS infrastructure and does system audits as well. CS Suite leverages current open source tools capabilities and has other missing checks added into one tool to rule them all. The major features include: Simple installation with...

The Forrester Wave Ranks Imperva as a Leader for DDoS Mitigation Providers

Imperva has tracked the DDoS threat for some time now. Back in 2014 we saw the rise of DDoS botnets. In 2015, we revealed one of the first IoT-based DDoS attacks. Last year, we predicted and then documented one of the largest botnet-based DDoS attacks. DDoS mitigation, as it turns out, is the...

Randy Bias joins Wallarm board of advisers

Menlo Park, California — December 5, 2017 — Wallarm today announced that Randy Bias, Vice President of Technology and Strategy, Cloud Software at Juniper and founder of Cloudscaling acquired by EMC, has joined Wallarm’s board of advisers. “Randy is an agile cloud pioneer and a thought leader in...

This Week in Security News

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. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

November 20, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Thanksgiving Week” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! November 20, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Why business is booming...

Do you believe in Serendipity?

In December 2016, after a month of mountain bike racing and touring in Nepal, I commenced the Executive Program in General Management at MIT. The first term was at Sloan School of Management in Cambridge and for the first time in my life, I finally could relate to studying. In fact, I was even...

October 27, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Stranger Things” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 27, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: The push toward...

Cloud Security Suite - One stop tool for auditing the security posture of AWS infrastructure

One stop tool for auditing the security posture of AWS. Pre-requisites Python 2.7 pip git Installation git clone https://github.com/SecurityFTW/cs-suite.git cd cs-suite/ sudo python setup.py Note - Generate a set of ReadOnly AWS keys which the tool will ask to finish the installation process...

Trend Micro is Proud to Sponsor G33kW33k!

It started as a small idea. Get a bunch of good people together, away from the pressures of their offices, and see if they could address some of the issues operational security teams have to deal with. Better monitoring tools; better analysis tools; new ways to generate threat indicators and feed...

Cybersecurity Executive Order 13800: More than a Risk Assessment?

Written by Sr. Solutions Engineer, Micah Maryn. Most folks around the Washington DC beltway have heard the cybersecurity Executive Order EO 13800 - Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure referred to as a simple risk assessment. But the reality is that it i...

Trend Micro Hosted Email Security (HES) Interception / Insecure Direct Object Reference

Date: 24-Aug-2017 Product: Trend Micro Hosted Email Security HES Versions affected: Hosted Email Security before January 2012. Vulnerability: Two vulnerabilities were discovered. The first allowed any HES user to intercept in-transit emails through the Trend Micro Hosted Email Security cloud...

MindPoint Group and Trend Micro Help Secure NASA’s Successful Journey to the AWS Cloud

For decades NASA has launched countless successful explorations into space, but just recently took on the mission of launching their data into the cloud, similarly to many other organizations today. With the help of MindPoint Group using Trend Micro Deep Security, powered by XGen™, this was yet...