Partner Perspectives: Endpoint Security Analytics with Sumo Logic and Carbon Black

As the threat landscape continues to expand, having end-to-end visibility across your modern application stack and cloud infrastructures is crucial. Customers cannot afford to have blind spots in their environment; and that includes data being ingested from third-party tools. With the industry...

Carbon Black and Chronicle: Stronger Cybersecurity through Big Data and Analytics

This is another exciting day for cybersecurity professionals, for Carbon Black and for me personally. It’s also a very exciting way to kick of RSA 2019! Earlier today, we announced an exciting new integration with Chronicle Security to harness the power of big data and analytics. Our goal is to...

Partner Perspectives: Awake Security and Carbon Black Deliver Comprehensive Threat Detection and Response

Rudolph Araujo is the Vice President of Awake Security. Even relatively unsophisticated attackers today use tools, tactics and techniques that make them difficult to uncover. For instance, the use of non-malware tools, such as PowerShell, psexec and Python, places a burden on security teams to...

Pylocky Unlocked: Cisco Talos releases PyLocky ransomware decryptor

This tool was developed by Mike Bautista. PyLocky is a family of ransomware written in Python that attempts to masquerade as a Locky variant. This ransomware will encrypt all files on a victim machine before demanding that the user pay a ransom to gain access to their decrypted files. To combat...

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...

Windows Defender ATP device risk score exposes new cyberattack, drives Conditional access to protect networks

Several weeks ago, the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP team uncovered a new cyberattack that targeted several high-profile organizations in the energy and food and beverage sectors in Asia. Given the target region and verticals, the attack chain, and the toolsets...

Open Source IPS: Suricata

Suricata is a free and open source, mature, fast and robust network threat detection engine. The Suricata engine is capable of real time intrusion detection IDS, inline intrusion prevention IPS, network security monitoring NSM and offline pcap processing. Suricata inspects the network traffic usi...

Four Ways Layered Security Will Improve Your Detection and Response

It’s widely understood by cybersecurity professionals today that it’s no longer a case of if your organization gets attacked online but when. Trend Micro blocked more than 20.4 billion threats in the first half of 2018 alone, and the ready availability of “as-a-service” toolkits will continue to...

Real-time File Scanning System: Strelka

Strelka is a real-time file scanning system used for threat hunting, threat detection, and incident response. Based on the design established by Lockheed Martin’s Laika BOSS and similar projects, Strelka’s purpose is to perform file extraction and metadata collection at huge scale. Strelka differ...

Partner Perspectives: The Power of Shared Intelligence: Juniper Sky ATP and Cb Response

Scott Emo is the Director of Field Readiness, Security, for Juniper Networks. Uncover and Mitigate the Most Sophisticated Cyber Attacks The rapid growth of emerging technologies, combined with an increasing number of connected devices running business-critical applications in highly distributed...

Partner Perspectives: Integrate your SIEM, UEBA + EDR Solution with Securonix and Carbon Black

Nitin Agale is the Senior VP of Products for Securonix. Your endpoints are a valuable part of your enterprise structure. They are the computers your employees use and the servers your company depends on. Defending your endpoints is important, but it’s critical that your endpoint defense is just o...

Terahertz Millimeter-Wave Scanners

Interesting article on terahertz millimeter-wave scanners and their uses to detect terrorist bombers. The heart of the device is a block of electronics about the size of a 1990s tower personal computer. It comes housed in a musician's black case, akin to the one Spinal Tap might use on tour. At t...

Simplifying and Prioritizing Advanced Threat Response Measures

I had to go to the doctor the other day because I was miserable and sick. I don’t like going to the doctor so I waited until my stuffy nose and congestion turned into a full blown sinus infection. The doctor said this thing was going around, and I should be better in a few day with my prescriptio...

How's that Security Back Door Doing? (Part 2)

In the first part of this blog post I wrote about how recursive DNS rDNS is an attack surface that many enterprises don't currently protect. Bad actors are exploiting that fact and developing advanced targeted threats that use DNS to bypass conventional security tools such as firewalls, secure we...

NetWitness Platform Detection

HTTP based detection of NetWitness Platform. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

Cybersecurity threats: How to discover, remediate, and mitigate

This blog is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 security solutions. In this series youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Check out our last blog, Protect...

Carbon Black Announces Cb LiveOps, a New Offering on the Cb Predictive Security Cloud (PSC), Delivering Real-Time Query and Response

Today is another exciting day for Carbon Black! Earlier, we announced the release of Cb LiveOps™- the newest offering built on our Cb Predictive Security Cloud™ PSC. a platform delivering complete endpoint prevention, detection, and response, all from a single agent. Cb LiveOps extends core...

Best security practices for Trusted TLS Intermediary

According to Google over 75% of public websites are accessed over encrypted connections using HTTPS, with the use of HTTP diminishing. As expected, the bad actors are following the crowds, and using HTTPS to hide their activities. So how can security solutions such as ETP Threat Protector detect...

Key Considerations in API security

Every day, there are billions of API calls being executed. These include public APIs, private APIs, SaaS APIs, APIs performing mobile back-end functions and many more. Given the gravity of the threat and the sheer volume of what’s exposed, how do we develop systems that are both safe and robust?...

Get Emerging Threats Visibility with Qualys IOC Widgets

Two new built-in widgets for detecting the GravityRAT and GhostSecret advanced threats are now available in Qualys Indication of Compromise IOC. These threats are of specific concern as they target industries like finance, entertainment, telecommunication and healthcare and have capability to...