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...

Carbon Black EDR’s All-New Live Query Capability and Enhanced Fileless Visibility

VMware Carbon Black is excited to announce that VMware Carbon Black EDR formerly CB Response, recently named by Gartner as a 2020 Customers’ Choice for Endpoint Detection and Response solutions, now features enhanced insight into fileless activity via Microsoft’s AMSI and a brand new Live Query...

Forrester Study: VMware Carbon Black Cloud Provides 379% ROI

A newly published Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ TEI study shows that organizations who replace their legacy endpoint security products with the VMware Carbon Black Cloud experience a 379% return on investment within three years. The commissioned study conducted on behalf of VMware...

New Osterman Research Report | Cyber Security in Healthcare

In 2019, roughly 45 million healthcare records were breached in the United States. With ransomware as their go-to technique, cyber attackers are targeting healthcare providers, medical devices, and critical supply chains more than ever before. The latest Osterman Research report, “Cyber Security ...

Breaking Down Election Security: Points of Vulnerability and Solutions

The importance of cybersecurity in the context of the democratic process has become undeniable—with nation-state hackers setting their sights on elections as effective vehicles for attack, disruption, and social unrest. Christopher Wray, the Director of the FBI, testified to Congress that U.S...

Partner Perspectives: More Effective Threat Hunting with ThreatConnect and Carbon Black

Megan Horner is the Director of Product Marketing for ThreatConnect. You’ll hear a lot in cybersecurity - and in technology in general - about the necessity of integrations. The more security solutions can communicate back and forth with what they find “in the wild” and how it compares to what’s...

Cb Customer Spotlight Series: Q&A Landmark Credit Union’s Matt Goodacre

Featuring Matt Goodacre, Security Analyst at Landmark Credit Union With all their endpoints in high enforcement mode, Matt Goodacre, Security Analyst at Landmark Credit Union in Wisconsin, is confident the organization’s workstations are up to locked down when it comes to security. Here’s how...

Excerpts from Risk & Response: Defending Financial Institutions with Cb Response

Carbon Black recently published a guide on combating the most advanced threats that financial institutions are facing today using the marketing-leading endpoint detection and response solution, Cb Response. For more information on securing large-scale financial enterprises, including how to...

January 29, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Grammys” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 29, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Four warnings for the...

January Release Brings Improved Enterprise Management to Cb Defense

As a network of computers gets larger, the challenges and risks of keep systems consistently protected and in compliance increases. This means that, with a huge number of dispersed endpoints to keep watch over, security administrators at enterprise organizations often spend too much time deployin...

Interview with CTO Michael Viscuso – Ransomware: The Problem That Won’t Go Away

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on BankInfoSecurity.com Click here to listen to the full podcast Dealing with ransomware is a lot like dealing with mosquitos: The best approach is to anticipate getting bit and take steps to try to fend off attacks. But the growth of ransomware int...

November 10, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Veterans Day” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! November 10, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Eric O' Neill Talks...

#CbChats: Eric O’ Neill Chats About Hacking as Espionage, His Time at the FBI & Ryan Phillippe

Today on CbChats, Carbon Black National Security Strategist Eric O' Neill talks about his time at the FBI, his relationship with "Breach" star Ryan Phillippe and how hacking is just the latest iteration of espionage. https://www.carbonblack.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/EONCbchats.mp3 About Eric...

Carbon Black’s Vision for the Predictive Security Cloud

Earlier today, during a keynote address at Cb Connect, I unveiled our vision for the Cb Predictive Security Cloud™️. The first of its kind, the Cb Predictive Security Cloud is an extensible, cloud-based cyber security platform that helps anticipate and prevent future and unknown cyberattacks. The...

October 4, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Nobel Prize” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 4, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Kangaroo Ransomware uses...

“Breaking Bad Security” – Tutorial 2 – Remote Access

Welcome to the second tutorial from our video series, “Breaking Bad Security!” This security series is designed to inform you about different tests, tricks, and free tools you can use to validate your security controls to ensure your environment is secure. In this series, we will provide...

“The 101” – Episode 5 – How does Malware Actually Work?

We’re back with another episode of The 101! This weekly security series aims to define endpoint security one question at a time. Tune in each week as we tackle a new term, concept, or comparison in our ongoing effort to provide clear definitions. Last week we started our discussion about malware ...

Dell Technologies + VMware Carbon Black: Better Together

It’s been an exciting few months for the VMware Carbon Black team and we’re excited to share some big news with you. Today, from VMworld Europe 2019 in Barcelona, VMware announced an enhanced partnership with Dell Technologies that will make Carbon Black Cloud, along with Dell Trusted Devices and...

CB Customer Spotlight: Q&A with Netflix DVD’s Jimmy Sanders

Recently we sat down with Jimmy Sanders, VP of Information Security at Netflix DVD, to talk about his upcoming presentation for CB Connect, Carbon Black’s customer conference. Sanders was one of the headliners at CB Connect 2018, and this year he will be speaking to his peers in the Security...

Why Should CISOs Should Care About Live Query?

If you’re a CISO, you are most likely focused on three things: 1. Strong security efficacy 2. Operational efficiency 3. Business enablement To address this, many organizations are adding layers of security tools to their technology stack, putting stress on their security and IT operations teams,...

Combating Insider Threats and “Hanssen’s Law” with Visibility

On the first day of my assignment under Robert Hanssen, he told me where to find the spies. The FBI had assigned me to work with Hanssen in the newly minted Information Assurance Section. Our overt job would be to examine and improve cybersecurity for the FBI. Covertly, I was tasked with gaining...

January 30, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “FDR” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 30, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: The Three Rs of Today’s...

The Second Question(s) Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answers To)

In a previous blog, we discussed Commander’s Intent for CEOs and introduced 10 questions CEOs should be asking their teams. In this blog series, I am going to take a deeper dive into each question and break them down one at a time. We will discuss why CEOs should care about each question and the...

Excerpts from Building a High Speed SOC: Introduction

Carbon Black recently published an in-depth guide on what it takes to develop a "high speed" security operations center, or SOC; this is an excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information on building high speed SOCs, including how to eliminate the "response gap," check out...

Carbon Black Named 2017 CDW Silver Partner of The Year

Carbon Black is proud to announce it was recognized as the 2017 CDW Silver Partner of The Year on Thursday November 9 at the 2017 CDW Partner Summit. The award recognizes the CDW partners that have consistently gone above and beyond to provide exceptional support to CDW and its customers. CDW...

July 24, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Shark Week” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 24, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Soon, your most important...

Detecting Threats in Real-time With Active C2 Information

Often security practitioners rely on the reputation of IP Addresses to determine if traffic to and from that IOC is malicious. In practice, the reputation of IOCs, IPs specifically is only updated when public repositories or tracking projects have observed the command and control server C2 being...

‘Modern Bank Heists’ Threat Report Finds Dramatic Increase in Cyberattacks Against Financial Institutions Amid COVID-19

This marks the third edition of the Modern Bank Heists report, which takes an annual pulse of some of the financial industry’s top CISOs and security leaders. Thank you, again, for reading along and thank you to the 25 security leaders who participated in this year’s survey. This survey offers mo...

AMA Recap: Top 10 Tips to Secure Your Remote Workforce

This is part of our ongoing conversation about the worldwide challenges of working remotely. To stay up-to-date on the latest insights, refer to our live page for COVID-19: Cybersecurity Community Resources. As organizations around the world transition to remote work en masse, cybersecurity...

Bringing Intrinsic Security to RSA Conference 2020

This year at the RSA Conference, VMware will be highlighting our vision for Intrinsic Security, a safer, more effective security built into the fabric of the various infrastructure control points that are vulnerable to attack endpoint, identity, network, cloud, workload. The VMware Carbon Black...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: Snatch Ransomware

During the end of the year 2019, a ransomware named ‘Snatch” was discovered. Snatch ransomware will force Windows to reboot in Safe Mode where most of the software and system drivers will not be running in order to perform the file encryption process. Similar to the other variants of ransomware, ...

Ransomware: 30 Years and Still Going Strong

In the tech world, systems – and methods to break said systems – seem to evolve by the minute. Technological advancement grows exponentially each year, and the realm of cybersecurity is no exception. However, some entities have survived and even thrived over the decades, rather than falling...

Three Common Questions (and Answers) About Next-Gen AV

Most organizations with traditional, or legacy, antivirus AV solutions are well aware that they are no longer protected from the more advanced tactics and threats of attackers today. Signatures just can’t keep up with emerging threats. But that doesn’t mean that everyone is ready to dive head fir...

Partner Perspectives: The Speed of Prevention – eSentire + Carbon Black

Editor's Note: This blog originally appeared on eSentire.com. Let’s start with a brief history lesson. In September 2016, eSentire and Carbon Black™ announced a strategic partnership in conjunction with launching esENDPOINT built on CB Response to augment our market-leading Managed Detection and...

Using MITRE ATT&CK When Researching Attacker Behavior in a Post-Compromise World

MITRE ATT&CK is arguably one of the best assets available to security professionals who want to dive into the intricacies of detecting and preventing adversary behaviors. Why is that? It’s a great knowledge base of known adversarial behaviors overlayed with attacker TTPs and their state in the...

Excerpts from 10 Endpoint Security Problems – And How the Cloud Solves Them

Predicting new threats is the top challenge for security and IT professionals Traditional antivirus is based on what’s already known – it can only stop known malware attacks based on the signatures it has at the moment. But the problem is only 30% of attacks are malware-based; if you rely solely ...

Cryptomining Rules Endpoints Around Me (Get the Monero)

If you know me then you know how much I love the Wu. You also know how much I love infosec. I thought this particular topic worthy to marry the two. The Saga Continues for the ownership of endpoints. Organizations purchase them, manage them, update, support, and protect them. However, the bad...

Essays from 7 Experts on Moving to a Cloud-Based Endpoint Security Platform

Carbon Black recently published a series of essays about the experiences of experts in the field on information security as they moved their endpoint security program to the cloud; this is one of those essays. To read the full series check out 7 Experts on Moving to a Cloud-Based Endpoint Securit...

January 25, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Poetry” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 25, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Wall Street to grill Int...

January 8, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Golden Globes” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 8, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black 2017 Threat...

November 17, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Hamilton” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! November 17, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Inside the Real-World...

November 8, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Abraham Lincoln” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! November 8, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black taps...

October 24, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Niagara Falls” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 24, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Putting the P, D, and R...

October 2, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “October” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 2, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: GDPR is a Year 2000-style...

September 18, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Emmys” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! September 18, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Worry about the spies,...

Moving Forward and Backward From the Equifax breach

By now most financially or technically savvy people are aware of the breach disclosed by Equifax on September 7th. Equifax reports that the incident affected 143 million Americans, which is well over half of the estimated 250 million adults in the United States. The data accessed is as sensitive ...

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...

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...

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...

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...