The evolution of Microsoft Threat Protection—July update

Modern security teams need to proactively, efficiently, and effectively hunt for threats across multiple attack vectors. To address this need, today we’re excited to give you a glimpse of a new threat hunting capability coming soon to Microsoft Threat Protection. Building off the threat hunting...

Rules-Based Policy Approaches Need to Go

Enterprises are making tremendous investments in their digital transformations, and no wonder: Increasingly, those who can more rapidly part from old, manual and antiquated ways of managing technology and shift to new ways of thinking will come out on top. That’s especially true when it comes to...

The evolution of Microsoft Threat Protection, June update

Since our announcement of Microsoft Threat Protection at Microsoft Ignite, our goal has been to execute and deliver on our promise of helping organizations protect themselves from today’s sophisticated and complex threat landscape. As we close out our fiscal year, we’ve continued progress on...

Cynet: An Autonomous Security Platform for Any Size Organization

The Cynet security platform takes a different approach to traditional point security offerings, by providing a consolidated solution to all aspects of breach protection through a single interface. Unlike endpoint security solutions that only focus on particular types of threats targeting the...

Advanced Breach Protection Demystified – Untold Truths On Security Beyond AV

Doing business in today's connected world means dealing with a continually evolving threat landscape. With potential losses due to downtime following a breach, plus valuable client and proprietary information at risk, most organizations realize they cannot afford to be complacent. This puts extra...

Advanced Breach Protection Demystified – Untold Truths On Security Beyond AV

Doing business in today's connected world means dealing with a continually evolving threat landscape. With potential losses due to downtime following a breach, plus valuable client and proprietary information at risk, most organizations realize they cannot afford to be complacent. This puts extra...

RSAC 2019: Most Consumers Say ‘No’ to Cumbersome Data Privacy Practices

Despite high-profile headlines about companies such as Facebook and Google abusing consumers’ personal information, it turns out that the average American is still not implementing a full cadre of best practices for keeping data safe. According to survey findings from research released at the RSA...

Sheepl - Creating Realistic User Behaviour For Supporting Tradecraft Development Within Lab Environments

Sheepl : Creating realistic user behaviour for supporting tradecraft development within lab environments Introduction There are lots of resources available online relating to how you can build AD network environments for the development of blue team and red team tradecraft. However the current...

Mobile matters: How to ready your apps for the holiday shopping spike

While more consumers now shop on smartphones, retailers have a lot of work to do to make mobile shopping easy. Developers must account for the wide variety of mobile hardware and software, take into account how consumers use their phones in stores and ensure easy checkout. The cheer and good...

CVE-2018-5892

The Touch Pal application can collect user behavior data without awareness by the user in Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear...

CVE-2018-5892

The Touch Pal application can collect user behavior data without awareness by the user in Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear...

How To Leverage Data Access Analytics for Effective Breach Detection

Detecting and preventing data breaches is a challenge for most, if not all, enterprises. In fact, according to a study released in 2017, 78% of all CISOs are concerned that data breaches go undetected, while only 19% admit they are effective at breach prevention. Simply put, breaches happen almos...

IoT Inspector Tool from Princeton

Researchers at Princeton University have released IoT Inspector, a tool that analyzes the security and privacy of IoT devices by examining the data they send across the Internet. They've already used the tool to study a bunch of different IoT devices. From their blog post: Finding 3: Many IoT...

Arm your users with knowledge to spot phishing attacks – for free!

Attendees to the Black Hat 2017 security conference said their No. 1 security concern and most time-consuming activity was phishing and social engineering attacks. That’s no surprise with the increase in Business Email Compromise BEC attacks and with most ransomware being delivered by email. But...

Measure What Matters: Your Competitive Advantage May Lie in Your Understanding (or Lack of Understanding) of What Users Are Really Experiencing

Attracting and retaining customers lies in your ability to offer an exceptional digital experience. Now that digital channels are increasingly preferred over channels of the past, the climate is increasingly competitive -- and businesses are fighting to maintain loyalty and keep users engaged...

Suppressing the Adversary via Threat Hunt Teams

What a brave new world. Global cyber insurgencies continue unabated. Decreasing dwell time is imperative in 2018. In order to achieve this goal, we must embrace the hunt. Every organization should stand up a threat hunt team. The team must be multidisciplinary with experience in e-forensics and...

2018 Cyberthreat Defense Report: Where IT Security Is Going

What keeps you awake at night? We asked IT security professionals the same question and found that these issues are top of mind: malware and spear phishing, securing mobile devices, employee security awareness and new technologies that detect threats capable of bypassing traditional signature-bas...

The Data Tinder Collects, Saves, and Uses

Under European law, service providers like Tinder are required to show users what information they have on them when requested. This author requested, and this is what she received: Some 800 pages came back containing information such as my Facebook "likes," my photos from Instagram even after I...

Sensitive Data Access: Where Traditional UBA Solutions Fall Short – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

In today’s global information economy an ever-increasing amount of sensitive data is collected, used, exchanged, analyzed, and retained. And with that comes an ever-increasing number of accidental or intentional data breaches. Identifying inappropriate access to data is paramount in stopping a...

More Answers, Less Query Language: Bringing Visual Search to InsightIDR

Sitting down with your data lake and asking it questions has never been easy. In the infosec world, there are additional layers of complexity. Users are bouncing between assets, services, and geographical locations, with each monitoring silo producing its own log files and slivers of the complete...