CISO series: Lessons learned—4 priorities to achieve the largest security improvements

In my past life as CISO, Ive worked for small companies, state governments, and large enterprises, and one thing that has been true at all of them is that there is an infinite number of security initiatives in each organization you could implement, yet the resources to accomplish those tasks are...

SANS THIR Summit Wrap Up – “We Have 15 Minutes”

Heading back to San Diego before I get on another flight 30 hours later. Lots of people say "what are you crazy? Why do that?"…to which I say: "we cannot achieve any mission without sacrifice." Going to events like the SANS Threat Hunting IR summit remind just how many dedicated people we have on...

Cb Response Named Leader in EDR Space by Forrester

Last quarter, Forrester created a report assessing the state of the EDR market and how vendors stack up against one another. A variety of companies were evaluated in three key areas: The strengths and weaknesses of their current offerings. Forrester cited key criteria to include: alerting...

The Data Breach ‘Kill Chain’: Early Detection is Key

Today, organizations rely heavily on data, with a big portion of that data made up of sensitive information. As organizations become the custodians of more and more sensitive information, the frequency of data breaches increases accordingly. In some cases, the origin of a data breach is outside o...

Iron Rain: What Defines a Cyber Insurgency?

“A fool pulls the leaves. A brute chops the trunk. A sage digs the roots.” - Pierce Brown The western world is currently grappling with a cyber insurgency. The widespread adoption of the “kill-chain” coupled with the use of memory resident malware has fueled the cyber-attack wild fire. The securi...

SC Media Awards Cb Defense, Cb ThreatSight 5 Out of 5 Stars

"During testing, Cb Defense performed as a top-quality endpoint security program…Great intuitive cloud platform with an armament of modern security technologies with a quick implementation into your business environment." - SC Media "Carbon Black also offers Cb ThreatSight as an add-on, which is...

Olympic Destroyer Returns to Target Biochemical Labs

Olympic Destroyer, the threat actor that caused a crippling sabotage attack on the networks supporting this year’s Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, has resurfaced with a spy campaign – and with a wider target range. The new campaign began last month and is ongoing, employing spear-phishi...

DejaVU - Open Source Deception Framework

Deception techniques if deployed well can be very effective for organizations to improve network defense and can be a useful arsenal for blue teams to detect attacks at very early stage of cyber kill chain. But the challenge we have seen is deploying, managing and administering decoys across larg...

Open Source Deception Framework: DejaVU

Deception techniques if deployed well can be very effective for organizations to improve network defense and can be a useful arsenal for blue teams to detect attacks at very early stage of cyber kill chain. But the challenge we have seen is deploying, managing and administering decoys across larg...

Getting Back on the Field

Growing up as a foreign service brat, I was obsessed with security. Living in Guatemala in the 80s you had to adapt and become resilient as child. As there was no TV in our household, 10-year-old Tom began to tinker with my father’s computer and soon it became my oasis from the stress of living i...

Excalibur - An Eternalblue exploit payload based Powershell

Excalibur is an Eternalblue exploit based "Powershell" for the Bashbunny project. It's purpose is to reflect on how a "simple" USB drive can execute the 7 cyber kill chain. Excalibur may be used only for demostrations purposes only, and the developers are not responsible to any misuse or illeagal...

How Next-Generation Firewall Platforms Help Protect Your Perimeter at Each Stage of the Cyber Kill Chain*

Whether you need to upgrade your firewalls on-premise or in the cloud, next-generation firewalls NGFWs can significantly reduce the risks associated with the modern threat landscape. Since attacks have evolved using techniques such as encryption, polymorphism, etc., firewalls have also evolved to...

Mitigating and eliminating info-stealing Qakbot and Emotet in corporate networks

The threat to sensitive financial information is greater than ever. Data breaches, phishing attacks, and other forms of information theft are all too common in today’s threat landscape. Point-of-sale systems and ATMs have been targeted by hackers. Information-stealing trojans pose a risk to data...

Halloween Special: Inside a Hacker’s Mind During the Cyber “Kill Chain”

Editor's Note: This blog was originally produced by former Carbon Black Chief Security Strategist and Co-founder, Ben Johnson. In the spirit of Halloween, I’ve decided to demonstrate how a hacker might go after your company, via the full “kill chain.” Muhahaha! Ok, it may not be that scary or as...

Breaking the attack chain

The attack chain. It’s a term used often in infosecurity. Also known as the kill chain, it was originally used as a military concept to describe the structure of an attack. It serves the same function in cybersecurity, where various methods of malware infiltration, deployment, and execution are...

Kali Linux: Kill Chain

Kill Chain for Kali Linux 2.0 is a unified console with an anonymizer that will perform these stages of attacks: Reconnaissance Weaponization Delivery Exploit Installation Command & Control And Actions Dependencies: Tor — For the console build in anonymizer. Set — Social-Engineer Toolkit SET,...

Killchain - A Unified Console To Perform The "Kill Chain" Stages Of Attacks

“Kill Chain” is a unified console with an anonymizer that will perform these stages of attacks: Reconnaissance Weaponization Delivery Exploit Installation Command & Control And Actions Dependant tool sets are: 1 Tor -- For the console build in anonymizer. 2 Set -- Social-Engineer Toolkit SET,...

Target Kill Chain Analysis

Last week, I talked with Wall Street Journal reporter Ben DiPietro about the persistent communications gap between the data center and the board room when it comes to recognizing and tackling security threats: In almost every breach situation after his company completes a forensic analysis, Mr...