Why Stand-Alone IDPS Matters More Than Ever, and the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant

First, What is IDPS and Why Do We Care? Intrusion Prevention Systems IPS emerged as an improvement on Intrusion Detection Systems IDS. IDS are out-of-band collectors of network traffic that analyze the information and provide alerts. The “eureka” of IPS was that instead of just alerting, why not...

The Botconf Experience

By Yohai Einav, Amir Asiaee, Ali Fakiri-Tabrizi and Alexey Sarychev Originally Posted on January 4, 2018 Earlier this month we took our show on the road, presenting some of our team's work at the Botconf conference in beautiful Montpellier, France. We could talk here for hours about the food, win...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of January 1, 2018

Happy New Year! It’s out with the old, in with the new, right? Except we all know that the old tends to stick around, especially when it comes to vulnerabilities and patching them. Trend Micro predicts that that 2018’s biggest attacks will originate from known vulnerabilities. And speaking of kno...

Healthcare Security Pros Prioritize Sharing and Caring in the Wild, Wild West of Healthcare

Security professionals from healthcare delivery organizations HDOs, medical device manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies gathered in Scottsdale, Arizona for the NH-ISAC Cyber Rodeo Summit last month. The big topics were how to share more threat intelligence, while at the same time ensuring...

GOSINT - Open Source Threat Intelligence Gathering and Processing Framework

The GOSINT framework is a project used for collecting, processing, and exporting high quality indicators of compromise IOCs. GOSINT allows a security analyst to collect and standardize structured and unstructured threat intelligence. Applying threat intelligence to security operations enriches...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of December 18, 2017

In the 2000 movie High Fidelity, the concept of making lists is a dominant focus. What are your top five favorite records? Top five side one, track ones? Top five dream jobs? In the movie, Rob Gordon, portrayed by John Cusack, decides to categorize his top five most memorable breakups in order to...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of December 11, 2017

If you read my weekly blog or follow me on Twitter, you know that I’m a huge sports fan. Unfortunately, when you don’t live in the town of your favorite team, you can be subject to blackout rules. So, my husband and I decided to purchase NFL Sunday Ticket from DirecTV. Fast forward to a couple of...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of December 4, 2017

It snowed in Austin, Texas last night. It’s not a big deal for those of you who live in areas where you’re used to snow, but for those of us who are native Texans, it’s a big deal. Funny enough, I had scheduled a maintenance appointment for later today to make sure our heater is in working order...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of November 20, 2017

It’s that time of year again, when many will gather with their families, eat way too much, and catch those crazy Black Friday sales. I’ve been seeing “Black Friday” sales for almost two weeks now. Cyber Monday, which falls on the Monday after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, is probably going to be...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of November 13, 2017

The dreaded white, blank screen in Microsoft Word is taunting me, with its blinking cursor asking for words to be written. Just when I thought I wouldn’t get any inspiration for this week’s blog, inspiration came to me from beyond through our late CTO Raimund Genes. Earlier this week, the third...

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...

Open Source Threat Intelligence Gathering & Processing Framework: GOSINT

The GOSINT framework is a project used for collecting, processing, and exporting high quality indicators of compromise IOCs. GOSINT allows a security analyst to collect and standardize structured and unstructured threat intelligence. Applying threat intelligence to security operations enriches...

MISP cross-site scripting vulnerability (CNVD-2017-36544)

MISP is a suite of open source software solutions for collecting, storing, distributing and sharing cybersecurity metrics and threats cybersecurity event analysis and malware analysis. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the 'sharingGroupPopulateOrganisations' function in the...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of November 6, 2017

I started a 14-day detox this week that eliminates common food allergens and hormones. It’s going to be two weeks of no fun, but it’s good to give your body a little reset. Plus, I’ll be done just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Eliminating toxins from your body can be compared to eliminati...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 30, 2017

Competition is inherent in our DNA. At a basic level, we compete for things like water and food. We also take it up a level and compete for wealth, fame and power. Some compete to be the best in sports, like my Houston Astros winning the 2017 World Series, and others compete to be the best in the...

Poisoning the Well: Banking Trojan Targets Google Search Results

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Earl Carter and Emmanuel Tacheau.SummaryIt has become common for users to use Google to find information that they do not know. In a quick Google search you can find practically anything you need to know. Links returned by a Google search, however,...

Maximize security insights by integrating threat intelligence data from Akamai with your SIEM

Since 2005, when Gartner coined the term, SIEM Security Information and Event Management solutions have grown in importance for the security industry. SIEM solutions provide a centralized view to easily access and analyze security information from multiple sources, and then prioritize mitigation...

Fast Flux Botnet: Research Results

Just like that, another Akamai Edge has come and gone. If you were able to join us this year, I hope you had a chance to stop by my presentation on Threat Intelligence Insights: An In-Depth Analysis of a Fast Flux Botnet. In short, Fast Flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide various type...

IntRec-Pack - Intelligence and Reconnaissance Package/Bundle installer

Intelligence and Reconnaissance Package/Bundle installer. IntRec-Pack is a Bash script designed to download, install and deploy several quality OSINT, Recon and Threat Intelligence tools. Due to the fact it manages the installation of the various dependencies related to these programs as well it...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 9, 2017

Even though “Patch Tuesday” isn’t supposed to exist anymore, here I am blogging about it. As I looked at the October updates from Microsoft, the usual suspects were there. But this month was a little different. We usually see critical vulnerabilities on the browser side, but Microsoft Office is i...