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...

VIDEO: Carbon Black Hackathon Competition Features MBTA Charlie Tracker

The Carbon Black R&D team just finished its third quarterly “hackathon” – a block of free time completely dedicated to collaboration and innovation. Projects can be anything a submitting team desires and submission do not need to be related to a product or even Carbon Black itself. The main purpo...

January 16, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NASA” 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 16, 2018 - Headlines BlackBerry launches cybersecurity software for...

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 20, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Thanksgiving 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! November 20, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Why business is booming...

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...

October 26, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Continental Congress” 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 26, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Protecting elections fro...

October 17, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “The Flintstones” 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 17, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Dark Web Ransomware...

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,...

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...

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...

IT Operations and Security: It’s Time to Build Something Better Together

Having been in the industry for longer than I care admit, I have seen the growth pre and post public internet. With that growth, there have been many changes with how organizations address the balance of IT Operations and Security, where tension still exists. IT Ops must keep the business running...

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...

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 ...

January 18, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “San Francisco” 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 18, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: SC Awards Finalists 2018...

November 1, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “November” 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 1, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: How to Make a Ransomware...

October 10, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “#Cb Connect” 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 10, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black and IBM...

July 12, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Henry David Thoreau” 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 12, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Closing Bell July 11, 2017 ...

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...

Third-Party Tests Rate VMware Carbon Black Cloud as a Leader in Protection, Detection; Platform Delivers 379% ROI for Customers

The biggest endpoint protection question for organizations right now is whether or not to upgrade from legacy approaches to cloud-native platforms with built-in EDR. If you boil this decision down to three key factors stronger protection, clearer visibility, and faster resolution, the choice...

RSA 2020 – That’s a Wrap!

Last week VMware Carbon Black attended the RSA Conference 2020 in San Francisco! This year was bigger than ever before, as we shared our vision for intrinsic security — for a safer, more effective world. Get all the highlights and check out some of our favorite moments in the wrap up below. The...

Performance Testing: Justifying Cost and Performance Improvements (Part 2)

As mentioned in the first blog in this series, Melanie, a performance engineer at VMware Carbon Black, built both baseline and investigative tests for the engineers that develop and maintain the company’s reputation services. Here’s a deeper look at these tests and how they helped the company...

Making Container Deployment and Analysis Self-Service for Development

Team Riptide was tasked with creating an environment for our developers that removes operational burdens. We wanted to provide them with infrastructure, best practices, automation, and self-service tooling so that they could focus on innovation. The result is an internal system we call “Mosaic,”...

How We Streamlined Infrastructure and Tooling as a Service for Development

At VMware Carbon Black, we’ve historically acquired a broad technology stack in our journey to build the premier security solution that understands cybercriminal behavior. Inheriting such a variety of tooling and storage solutions presented a challenge for us operationally. So, in order to reduce...

Congratulations to our Query of the Month Winner for July 2019!

Our Query of The Month competition recognizes the top community-shared query that provides value to other Osquery users. To determine the query of the month, our team selects the customer query that has the most engagement or helps solve an important problem. The winner of the contest each month...

No Data is an Island: One Infosec Pro’s Experience As a Consumer Involved in a Data Breach

British Airways BA was hit by a major breach that resulted in a loss of customer records. I was notified promptly by BA. I thought their public response was timely. By the way, this breach was announced while I was about to board a BA flight to Heathrow. My credit card was used to purchase my...

The First Step to Deploying Application Control

Application Control remains one of the best techniques for blocking the vast majority of malware threats; however, implementation often falters due to poor planning. Gartner How to Successfully Deploy Application Control Is Whitelisting Worth It? When it comes to preventing new attacks,...

January 24, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Taco” 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 24, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Amazon Web Services Buys...

November 3, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Friday” 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 3, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Endpoint security needs...

October 27, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Stranger Things” 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 27, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: The push toward...

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...

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...

We Need to Change the Structure of Security to Transform Security

We Need to Change the Structure of Security to Transform Security Tom Corn, Senior Vice President of Security Products at VMware, was recently recorded giving his overview of the fundamental problem companies have with security today. His answer — we’ve got too much happening in silos and too muc...

Latest Enterprise EDR Now Available on All Major Operating Systems

VMware Carbon Black is today announcing new capabilities for macOS systems protected by our cloud-native enterprise endpoint detection and response EDR solution, CB ThreatHunter. This latest release on the VMware Carbon Black Cloud further expands customizable detection, threat intelligence,...

Mitigating Modern Insider Threats in FIs

More and more financial institutions FI are migrating to the cloud—increasing efficiencies and access to services. With this move, however, comes a new degree of risk. Without the right levels of protection and visibility, you leave yourself open not only to attacks by external actors but interna...

Partner Perspectives: Disrupt Advanced Threats with Blumira + Carbon Black

Matt Warner is the CTO of Blumira. Modern security challenges are not easy to fix or even identify, and despite misleading advertising from some vendors, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Blumira frequently observes large visibility gaps in existing security implementations, allowing obviou...

What Does it Mean to Connect?

"Bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established." or "Join together so as to provide access and communication." -The Oxford English Dictionary I have been to too many security events. 🙂 So many, in fact, that sometimes they blend together. CB Connect, however, is no...

Partner Perspectives: Level Up your EDR Capabilities with Deception-Based Threat Detection from Carbon Black and Smokescreen

Amir Moin is a Product Manager for Smokescreen. All security teams eventually run into the same fundamental problems - low network visibility, overworked security analysts, and breaches that put them on the nine o’clock news. Traditional security solutions are primed toward giving security teams ...

CB ThreatHunter: Now Available on the CB Predictive Security Cloud (PSC)

Today Carbon Black is announcing the general availability of CB ThreatHunter, our newest offering on the CB Predictive Security Cloud PSC, which delivers powerful threat hunting and incident response IR capabilities on the same platform. The release of CB ThreatHunter marks the fourth service...

Enter to Win a $250 Gift Card at #CbConnect18

To make Cb Connect 2018 even more exciting, we’re hosting a Twitter contest to see who can rack up the most engagement on Twitter. If you want to participate, just share your thoughts about Cb Connect 2018 on Twitter by telling us what you’ve learned, which sessions you liked most, who you got to...

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...

Getting Back on the Field

Growing up as a foreign service brat, I was obsessed with security. Living in Guatemala in the 80s you had to adapt and become resilient as child. As there was no TV in our household, 10-year-old Tom began to tinker with my father’s computer and soon it became my oasis from the stress of living i...

January 19, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Puppies” 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 19, 2018 - Headlines The Five Laws Of Cybersecurity - Forbes 3 things y...

January 10, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Common Sense” 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 10, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Seven Ransomware...

January 5, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Monopoly” 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 5, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Cybersecurity news round-...

November 14, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Hole Punch” 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 14, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black taps...

Protect Your Organization from Petya / NotPetya Ransomware with Carbon Black

Organizations from Russia to Britain were hit by a ransomware attack on Tuesday in a hack with similarities to the recent WannaCry attacks. Initial analysis showed that the malware seen is a recent variant of the Petya ransomware family based upon how it encrypts files and displays its ransom not...