VMware Carbon Black Delivers High-Fidelity Insight at Every Step of MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluation

For the third year in a row, VMware Carbon Black today announced its participation in MITRE Engenuity’s third annual ATT&CK® Evaluations with VMware Carbon Black Cloud. VMware Carbon Black Cloud delivered robust telemetry coverage with correlated, high-fidelity alerts at each and every step of th...

COVID-19 and HIPAA Enforcement Discretion Leaves Healthcare Organizations Vulnerable to Ransomware Attacks

Patient engagement is a term that has been discussed in healthcare for years. But now, its an urgent priority as providers work to vaccinate millions of Americans. The COVID-19 pandemic has put increased pressure on healthcare providers to ramp up digital communications with patients regarding...

Linux Distribution Coverage Extended Across the VMware Carbon Black Cloud

In 2020, a record 56 new Linux malware families were discovered. We are now seeing this trend continue into the new year with the latest discovery of RedXOR, believed to be formulated by Chinese nation-state actors targeting RedHat Enterprise Linux RHEL. With organizations hyper-accelerating thei...

Women in Security Part 6: Meet Nandini De, Director of Engineering

This post is part of our Women’s History Month series - follow along with us on Twitter @VMwareCarbonBlack To conclude Women’s History Month, we are thrilled to bring you the last spotlight of our Women in Security series. It’s been an honor to highlight the outstanding women in the VMware Securi...

Women in Security Part 5: Meet Lavine Oluoch, Threat Analyst

This post is part of our Women’s History Month series - follow along with us on Twitter @VMwareCarbonBlack In continued celebration of Women’s History Month, we are excited to bring you our next featured security expert as a part of our six-part Women in Security series. Throughout March, we are...

Women in Security Part 4: Meet Jan Lawford, Senior Director of EMEA Security Sales

This post is part of our Women’s History Month series - follow along with us on Twitter @VMwareCarbonBlack As we continue to celebrate Women’s History Month, we are honored to share the stories of women in our VMware Security Business Unit, including members of our team and customers alike. By...

VMware Carbon Black Ranks Among Top 10 of 100 Cybersecurity Companies by the University of San Diego

We are proud to announce that VMware Carbon Black has been ranked within the top 10 organizations on the University of San Diego Cybersecurity Team’s annual list of the Top 100 Cybersecurity Companies of 2020. The annual list of cybersecurity companies highlights the most influential players in a...

Fighting Back in 2021: 4 Best Practices for Security Teams

“Attacks these days don’t have a natural beginning or ending. For an adversary, every attack is an opportunity to learn something that can then be used against additional organizations.” -- Greg Foss, Senior Cybersecurity Strategist, VMware Security Business Unit. Attackers versus defenders will...

Women in Security Part 3: Meet Marina Liang, Threat Researcher

This post is part of our Women’s History Month series - follow along with us on Twitter @VMwareCarbonBlack In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re excited to share the next blog in our six-part Women in Security series where we highlight outstanding women on the VMware Security Business Un...

Securing Containers and Kubernetes-Orchestrated Environments

In a recent Black Hat webcast, “Securing Containers and Kubernetes-Orchestrated Environments,” sponsored by VMware Carbon Black, guest speakers Sheila A. Berta, Offensive Security Specialist, Dreamlab Technologies and Haim Helman, CTO, VMware Carbon Black App Security, VMware Security Business...

Women in Security Part 2: Meet Suzanne Hall, Global CISO and VP, Technology at Circle K Stores

This post is part of our Women’s History Month series - follow along with us on Twitter @VMwareCarbonBlack In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re continuing our six-part Women in Security series by highlighting a VMware Carbon Black customer who is making her mark on the security industry...

2021 Cybersecurity Outlook: Attackers vs. Defenders

COVID-19, One Year Later 2020 was undoubtedly a defining year for cybersecurity – a year that ended with the SolarWinds breach, which infiltrated US government agencies and organizations at a scale not seen in recent history. For cybersecurity professionals, the nature of this attack – a...

TAU Threat Advisory: Microsoft Exchange Servers Targeted with Four Zero-day Exploits

The following advisory from VMware Threat Analysis Unit TAU is to provide guidance, best practices and capabilities to identify risk, prevent, detect and respond to this emerging threat. Summary On March 2, 2021 Microsoft announced four zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857,...

Women in Security Part 1: Meet Taree Reardon, Senior Threat Analyst

This post is part of our Women’s History Month series - follow along with us on Twitter @VMwareCarbonBlack In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are excited to kick off our six-part Women in Security series. Throughout March, we will highlight outstanding women on the VMware Security...

Women in Security: Celebrating Women’s History Month

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are honoring all of the women at VMware who inspire, lead, innovate and set the stage for the next generation to come. In a six-part series, we will highlight some of the outstanding women in security that are playing a significant role in keeping the...

VMware Carbon Black Named to the 2021 CRN Security 100 List

We are proud to announce that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named VMware Carbon Black to its annual Security 100 list. The Security 100 list features leading IT channel security vendors and is compiled by a panel of CRN editors, recognizing channel-focused security vendors across five...

The State of Healthcare Cybersecurity: VMware Carbon Black Explores the Surge in Cyber Threats

On the frontline of the pandemic, perhaps no industry was impacted and forced to innovate and transform as quickly as healthcare in 2020. Whether it was the rapid development of COVID-19 testing technology or the explosion of telehealth, healthcare organizations accelerated digital transformation...

Deploying The New VMware Carbon Black Container Security Solution

“VMware acquired Octarine, a privately held company in Sunnyvale, California on May 27, 2020. Octarine offers a cloud-native security platform for the complete lifecycle of applications running on Kubernetes, helping customers to protect their cloud-native apps from build to runtime. Acquiring...

VMware Carbon Black Champions Data Privacy Day 2021

Today is Data Privacy Day, an annual effort hosted by the National Cybersecurity Alliance NCSA to raise awareness about the importance of privacy and protection of personal information. VMware Carbon Black is proud to be an official Champion, supporting the principle that all organizations share...

VMware Carbon Black Cloud™ Awarded Cyber Catalyst Designation

VMware Carbon Black Cloud has been awarded a Cyber CatalystSM designation for its cloud native endpoint and workload protection platforms, which helps more than 20,000 organizations worldwide detect and stop emerging attacks. The designation is part of the annual Cyber Catalyst by Marsh℠ program,...

Bridge the Gap between Security and IT in Cloud Workload Protection

It often feels as though Security and IT are trying to build the same house from different blueprints. Security works tirelessly to stay ahead of a threat landscape that is moving at warp speed by managing hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, IT tries to strike a precarious balanc...

Enterprise EDR Expands New Linux Coverage to SUSE, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Oracle & Amazon Linux

VMware Carbon Black is pleased to announce an exciting expansion of Linux distribution coverage for Enterprise EDR users on the VMware Carbon Black Cloud platform. In addition to the current support of Windows, macOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL, CentOS, and Oracle, this release further expands...

Announcing the General Availability of Container Security in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud

Today, we are excited to announce the first release of Container Security capabilities in the Carbon Black Cloud. Building on our Cloud Workload Protection solution announced at VMworld, our new Container Security offering supports VMware’s Intrinsic Security vision to protect data and applicatio...

TAU Threat Analysis: Insights on the SolarWinds Breach

In light of the SolarWinds breach, we want to help our customers who may have questions as well as the larger security community. The VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU has been steadfastly monitoring the evolving situation as we learn more about the supply chain compromise. We caught u...

VMware Enables Zero Trust Through Intrinsic Security

For decades, the central philosophy behind security has been to treat the network like a castle: Build the walls higher, make the moat deeper and wider. But the onset of the primarily telework environment within the federal government has moved much of the activity outside the network perimeter, ...

Protect Yourself from Holiday Cyber Threats – Ask the Howlers, Episode 16 Highlights

In episode 16 of “Ask the Howlers,” host Stacia Tympanick, senior solution engineer, met up with Ryan Hendricks, staff architect and manager, to discuss the latest topics concerning cybersecurity impacting the online holiday shopping season. Check out some highlights from the discussion and gain...

VMware Carbon Black Recognized as “Tech Exit of the Year” at New England Venture Capital Association’s 2020 NEVY Awards

This week, the New England Venture Capital Association named VMware Carbon Black winner of “Tech Exit of the Year” at the eighth annual NEVY Awards. The NEVY Awards recognize the top innovators, investors and companies in the region, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to receive the accolade that...

A Look Ahead: 9 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2021

Following an unprecedented year, what’s to come for cybersecurity in 2021? The ripple effects of the global pandemic have created a new threat landscape. In March, 90% of CISOs we surveyed reported an increase in attack frequency. For many organizations, the key to survival amid COVID-19 has call...

VMware Carbon Black Cloud Adds Device Control

With most organizations now working remotely, the chances your employees may unintentionally use restricted devices and infect your network has grown exponentially. With this threat in mind, we’re happy to announce the release today of device control in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud. Although the...

3 Ways to Hunt for the ZeroLogon Vulnerability on Your Windows Servers

Vulnerability assessment and patch management can be painful time-consuming processes. From the Security team looking at vulnerability reports and prioritizing the riskiest ones for their environment to the IT or Infrastructure team determining exactly which machines need to be patched and...

VMware Workspace Security: A Major Leap Towards Unified Endpoint Mobility & Security

The rate of change in the way people work, driven by the need to work remotely, has exacerbated IT and security concerns. And this change in the way we work is likely to be permanent as organizations see performance benefits resulting from the remote work environment. New work expectations have...

Risk Score 101: What to look for in a Risk Score

Editors Note: Monica White, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is the Director of Product Marketing at Kenna Security When we at Kenna Security originally looked at adding a risk score to enumerate vulnerability risk in VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload, we knew that Common Vulnerability...

VMware Carbon Black Announces Splunk Integration to Streamline and Modernize SOC Workflows

Introducing Unified VMware Carbon Black Cloud App for Splunk At VMware Carbon Black, our ecosystem of integration and alliance partners has been a core part of our vision and strategy. Today, with thousands of customers adopting the VMware Carbon Black Cloud to secure their endpoints and workload...

Defining Cloud Workload Protection

Organizations are now turning to an increasingly hybrid cloud infrastructure model to support remote workforces, a trend that has accelerated significantly amid the recent global health crisis. This presents a new challenge as cloud environments both private and public require a purpose-built...

Querying Windows Event Logs for Faster Investigation and Response

With this week’s release on the VMware Carbon Black Cloud, users can now remotely inspect Windows devices’ event logs to pull back information that could be helpful during an investigation or response scenario. This new capability comes as part of an update to the Live Query functionality provide...

VMware Carbon Black Named a Finalist in the 2020 CRN Tech Innovator Awards

We are proud to announce that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named VMware Carbon Black a finalist in the 2020 CRN Tech Innovator Awards, recognizing VMware Carbon Black Cloud in the Endpoint Security category. The annual award celebrates the most groundbreaking products and services in...

Secure Cloning: VMware Advances the State of the Art in Secure VDI Infrastructure

The need for security in the workplace has changed. Remote work is the new normal and the result is drastic changes to an organization’s entire attack surface area. Cybercriminals are taking advantage of this new reality by targeting the very means by which employees connect to corporate resource...

Countering a Home Invasion: Modernizing Threat Hunting Best Practices

The recently released VMware Carbon Black Global Incident Threat Report found that incidents of counter incident response IR are occurring in 82 percent of IR engagements. Counter IR involves several tactics, which include: disabling anti-malware scan interface, clearing/deleting logs, using...

TAU Threat Advisory: Imminent Ransomware threat to U.S. Healthcare and Public Health Sector

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued a joint alert this week with regards to an imminent cybercrime threat to US hospitals and healthcare providers. The alert was coauthored by CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: 2020 in Retrospect

For cyber defenders worldwide, 2020 has been unprecedented year. CISOs and their security teams have battled increased attack volumes and data breaches as malicious actors seized the opportunity to exploit the disruption caused by the global pandemic. Cybercriminals are now deploying a wide range...

Cyber Insecurity: Securing the Vote in the 2020 Election

Ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, there are a number of cybersecurity threats looming. In an unprecedented year, we have already begun to see foreign interference,1 government agencies hit with ransomware attacks2, the National Guard deployed by state and local governments to assist...

Cybersecurity Awareness Checklist

Cybersecurity Awareness Month CAM 2020,, in its 17th year, is an annual campaign in October that raises awareness on the importance of cybersecurity. This year’s theme is “Do Your Part. BeCyberSmart” along with the key message “If you connect it, protect it.” 2020 has been an unprecedented year...

Crossing the Narrow Sea

Tom Kellermann, Head of Cybersecurity Strategy at VMware and Member of the Cyber Investigations Advisory Board of the United States Secret Service. “The Greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist.” -Keyser Sose Cyberspace is not a pacific environment. According...

Ransomware Attacks Targeting Healthcare Surge: VMware Carbon Black experts Weigh in

Targeted, sophisticated, and costly – over the past month, several high-profile ransomware attacks have been reported with a specific focus on some of the largest healthcare providers across the world1. With the recent surge in telemedicine adoption due to the COVID-19 as well as the growth of...

The Future of Remote Work: Connecting Security and IT — Webinar Highlights

The unforeseen global health crisis of 2020 has driven radical changes in most organizations. With empty offices and business pressure building, enterprises are forced to rapidly adapt to new working environments. Almost all non-essential employees are now working remotely, and this trend is like...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2020: Top Resources on “If You Connect it, Protect it”

Leaves are turning red and gold, the temperature is dropping, and the smell of pumpkin spice is filling the air. It’s officially October! which also means it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month CAM 2020. Now in its 17th year, Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an annual campaign that raises awareness o...

Live from VMworld 2020: A Spotlight on Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Cybersecurity is no longer a buzzword. It is now a concern for businesses, government entities, consumers — for anyone who relies on the internet in our increasingly digital world. Earlier this year, the FBI reported a 400% increase in cybercrime1, a stark reality that has been exacerbated by the...

Intrinsic Security at VMworld 2020

VMworld 2020 kicked off today and for the first time ever, hundreds of security experts took the virtual stage to unveil how organizations can build a future read business with a truly unified security approach. Not able to attend all the sessions you wanted to today? Check out our highlights bel...

Better Secure and Manage Endpoints in a Remote Work World

The global pandemic has quickly changed how and where we work. Remote work is now the ‘new normal.’ Amid the massive transition, a June survey by S&P Global found: More than two-thirds of companies may be working from home forever Offices that do remain will probably shrink: 47% of respondents sa...

VMworld 2020: Delivering Intrinsic Security to the World’s Digital Infrastructure

A year ago, we bet big, with a vision to truly disrupt the security industry — and ultimately help more customers stay safe from cyber attacks. The VMware acquisition of Carbon Black created a massive opportunity to leverage infrastructure and control points in new ways to make security intrinsic...