How SMBs Can Mitigate the Growing Risk of File-based Attacks

Cases of document-based malware are steadily rising. 59 percent of all malicious files detected in the first quarter of 2019 were contained in documents. Due to how work is done in today's offices and workplaces, companies are among those commonly affected by file-based attacks. Since small to...

Cynet 360: The Next Generation of EDR

Many organizations regard Endpoint Detection and Response EDR as their main protection against breaches. EDR, as a category, emerged in 2012 and was rapidly acknowledged as the best answer to the numerous threats that legacy AV unsuccessfully struggled to overcome – exploits, zero-day malware and...

Beyond The Standard CISO Cloud Security Guide

Verizon recently released a 5 step process for evaluating cloud security products and services to inform purchase decisions. That’s a fantastic tool for buyers to have. This is especially helpful because cloud discussions are almost always driven by business objectives to satisfy a cost and or...

Partner Perspectives: Endpoint Protection & Asset Management: Making Sure Everything That Should Be Protected, Is Protected

It’s a common refrain in cybersecurity: you can only protect what you can see. And while advances in endpoint protection technology have drastically increased the security of devices, organizations still struggle to understand which assets they have, and whether they’re properly covered by securi...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1702-1 Security update for monitoring-plugins

This update adds monitoring-plugins to PackageHub 15, for use by various monitoring solutions...

GSS at Edge World

It's a busy time for my team as we prepare for next week's customer conference, Edge World, in Las Vegas. I'm excited for another productive week of interacting and innovating with our customers. There's still time for you to join us; register here. I wanted to highlight the great work that the...

Decentralized identity and the path to digital privacy

Security is the central challenge of the digital age. Our digital lives have moved into the cloud. People now use multiple devices to connect to multiple applications through many different networks. Just about everything is connected to the internet, where threats remain constant and evolving. I...

How 5G could impact cybersecurity strategy

With the recent news that South Korea has rolled out the world’s first 5G network, it’s clear that we’re on the precipice of the wireless technology’s widespread launch. Offering speeds anywhere from 20 to 100 times faster than 4G long-term evolution LTE, the next generation of wireless networks...

Partner Perspectives: Level Up your EDR Capabilities with Deception-Based Threat Detection from Carbon Black and Smokescreen

Amir Moin is a Product Manager for Smokescreen. All security teams eventually run into the same fundamental problems - low network visibility, overworked security analysts, and breaches that put them on the nine o’clock news. Traditional security solutions are primed toward giving security teams ...

Step 7. Discover shadow IT and take control of your cloud apps: top 10 actions to secure your environment

The “Top 10 actions to secure your environment” series outlines fundamental steps you can take with your investment in Microsoft 365 security solutions. In “Step 7. Discover shadow IT and take control of cloud apps,” you’ll learn how to set up Microsoft Cloud App Security MCAS to identify, access...

Key considerations for building vs. buying identity access management solutions

Time and time again, organizations learn the hard way that no matter which security solutions they have in place, if they haven’t properly secured the end user, their efforts can be easily rendered moot. The classic slip-up most often associated with end-user-turned-insider-threat is falling for ...

The AI cybersecurity impact for IoT

I meet with customers around the globe in all sectorsbanks with ATM networks, energy companies with critical infrastructure, natural resource companies with remote automated operations, healthcare organizations with medical devices, manufacturing companies with production environmentsand they all...

Akamai Received Top Scores in Gartner's New Report "Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web Application Firewalls Services"

Are you in the process of selecting a web application firewall WAF or thinking about whether your current solution is adequate? For many organizations selecting the right WAF to protect their business is not an easy task. The threat landscape is changing fast and hackers are very creative in thei...

NRCC Email Hack Highlights Lack of Visibility & Proactive Threat Hunting at Political Organizations

Earlier this week, Politico reported that the National Republican Congressional Committee NRCC suffered a major attack prior to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, with thousands of sensitive emails from four senior aides exposed to an outside intruder. While the impact of this breach is still...

New ‘Under the Radar’ report examines modern threats and future technologies

As if you haven't heard it enough from us, the threat landscape is changing. It's always changing, and usually not for the better. The new malware we see being developed and deployed in the wild have features and techniques that allow them to go beyond what they were originally able to do, either...

Hackers Breach Dunkin' Donuts Accounts in Credential Stuffing Attack

A credential stuffing attack has allowed hackers to take a big bite out of Dunkin’ Donuts customer data. The donut giant announced Tuesday evening that a data breach in October may have led to customers’ personal information being compromised. Dunkin’ Brands Inc. in an advisory posted to its...

How to help maintain security compliance

This is the last post in our eight-blog series on deploying Intelligent Security scenarios. To read the previous entries, check out the Deployment series page. Your employees need to access, generate, and share organizational information ranging from extremely confidential to informal; you must...

Is FIDO the future instrument to prove our identity?

FIDO, short for Fast IDentity Online, is an industry consortium started in 2013 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication devices and the problems users face creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords. Among the founders were those who work in the financia...

PT-2018-34: XXE Injection in S3 Browser

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an XXE Injection vulnerability in S3 Browser. A vulnerability in the HTTP-based S3 protocol, due to server responses transmitted in XML format, allows remote attackers to read user files and obtain NTLMv2 hash values by tricking a user...

Carrier Grade Security Means … Using Carrier Grade Security

It’s a common mistake in enterprises to copy-paste security solutions from a peer. Strategies can be recycled, but sadly with even very similar businesses almost always have radically different IT and security requirements. I recall one hospital that looked at a nearly identical peer hospital tha...