Security without Detection: Economic Denial As a Primitive for Edge and IoT Defense

Detection-based security fails against sophisticated attackers using encryption, stealth, and low-rate techniques, particularly in IoT/edge environments where resource constraints preclude ML-based intrusion detection. We present Economic Denial Security EDS, a detection-independent framework tha...

Researchers Uncover Active Exploitation of WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity researchers have warned that multiple high-severity security vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins are being actively exploited by threat actors to create rogue administrator accounts for follow-on exploitation. "These vulnerabilities are found in various WordPress plugins and are...

CB Customer Spotlight: Q&A with Chick-fil-A’s Geoffrey Cole

In his 3-year tenure at Chick-fil-A’s Atlanta headquarters, Geoffrey Cole has already made a big impact in the company’s cybersecurity posture. Starting in systems engineering, Cole then moved to managing the endpoint security suite for both the corporate hub and satellite restaurants, and now...

Delivering major enhancements in Windows Defender Application Control with the Windows 10 May 2019 Update

With the Windows 10 May 2019 Update we delivered several important features for Windows Defender Application Control WDAC, which was originally introduced to Windows as part of a scenario called Device Guard. WDAC works in conjunction with features like Windows Defender Application Guard, which...

Introducing Windows Defender Application Control

Application control is a crucial line of defense for protecting enterprises given today’s threat landscape, and it has an inherent advantage over traditional antivirus solutions. Specifically, application control flips the model from one where all applications are assumed trustworthy by default t...