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 To Teach Cybersecurity to Today’s Youth

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. Cybersecurity is important for everyone, but teaching the...

Medibank Private Finds the Cure for Ransomware with Carbon Black

Editor's Note: A form of this article originally appeared on CSO.com. Like most large businesses, health insurer Medibank Private was regularly experiencing a few of what CISO Stuart Harrison calls “significant incidents” every month. Its predominantly antivirus-based security defences were missi...

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 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...

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...

“Ready Player One” – Are you Ready to Protect Your Endpoints from the Bad Guys?

At times it can feel like a game as you watch the cyber-breach scorecards. Yahoo 3 billion users, Equifax 143 million consumers, Uber 57 million users, Imgur 1.7 million users are just a sample of the companies that have released new information on large breaches in the last few months...

Veterans Are a Valuable Cybersecurity Workforce

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on ITSPmagazine. As a former United States Marine I believe veterans can be instrumental in helping to close the growing cybersecurity skills and people gap. My own story reveals how a military background can provide the perfect foundation for a...

#CbChats: Rick McElroy Talks About the Mental Health Side of Cybersecurity

Rick McElroy, security strategist for Carbon Black, has more than 17 years of information security experience educating and advising organizations on reducing their risk posture and tackling tough security challenges. He has performed services for the U.S. Department of Defense, and has held...

Excerpts from The Ransomware Economy: Emergence and Innovation

Carbon Black recently published an investigative report on the Dark Web marketplace for ransomware. This is an excerpt from that report, which you can find here. For more information about the rise of ransomware, and what you can do about it, check out the Future-Proof Your Ransomware Prevention...

“The 101” – Episode 12 – What Is a TTP?

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. For a while now we’ve been talking about malware -...

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...

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...

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...

Why SecOps is (Still) the Future

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the VMware Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. SecOps is not a new idea. Unfortunately, however, it is...

How Federal Employees Can Protect their Agencies During the Pandemic

It’s no secret that the way the world works has shifted since COVID-19 came on the scene. Operations are going remote and, for many government and federal agencies, this is new territory. This novelty is compounded by the fact that nation-state attacks are—and have been—on the rise for quite some...

How To Handle Evolutions in Cybercrime

Cybercriminals are Evolving Attackers are constantly evolving their techniques—finding ways to evade your defenses and stay in your systems longer. Today, 68% of attacks remain undetected for months or more. Traditional antivirus AV can’t hold up against the modern hacker. New attacks, like...

January 22, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NFL” 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 22, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Strategic Cyber Ventures...

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...

November 6, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Daylight Saving” 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 6, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: CBS Evening News Scroll ...

October 30, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Hallow’s Eve” 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 30, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: The black market economy...

Freedom, Flexibility, and Security: The Future of Remote Work

Over the past few months, many digital heavy enterprises have optimized or transformed their operations to bolster business continuity and resilience. One of these changes is implementing remote work policies, as employees have shifted to work from home, indefinitely. And while life stills feel...

Kicking off Developer Day 2020

Developer Day 2020 kicks off today with seven on-demand sessions for more than 2,600 registrants. This is the first time Developer Day has been held in a virtual setting and the VMware Carbon Black team is excited to welcome the largest group of developers we have ever had in attendance. With eig...

Coronavirus and the Growing Mobile Workforce: Prioritizing Endpoint Security

Editor's Note: Gary Stevens, a technology writer, is posting as a guest author to carbonblack.com Despite the global COVID-19 response and current recommendations for social distancing, institutions, enterprises and businesses still need to function and maintain all necessary operations where...

Congratulations to our Query of the Month Winner for August 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...

Adding Cb ThreatHunter to the Cb Predictive Security Cloud (PSC)

This is another big day for Carbon Black. Earlier, we announced Cb ThreatHunter, our newest offering on the Cb Predictive Security Cloud PSC, which delivers powerful threat hunting and incident response IR capabilities to the platform. The announcement of Cb ThreatHunter, which will be the fourth...

10 Endpoint Security Problems Solved by the Cloud – Integrating Security Products

This blog is the third in the series: 10 Endpoint Security Problems Solved by the Cloud. Last week we investigated how cloud based security solutions are able to keep software up to date. This week we’re tackling problem 2: Integrating security products. Your Systems Are Siloed Cybersecurity isn’...

The Fourth 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...

January 26, 2018 – 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! January 26, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: New infosec products of...

January 3, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Martin Luther” 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 3, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Cybercriminals favored...

December 29, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “2018” 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! December 29, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Bitcoin concerns rising...

VIDEO: Carbon Black’s Agile Transformation

In 2017, our product team went through a major "Agile Transformation." All employees adopted this new way of working to establish better collaboration within and across teams. We’ve restructured our teams to be smaller and more cross-functional. We’ve hired Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to keep...

Hunting Threats Before Threats Hunt Us

Remember file cabinets? Most businesses have auctioned them off or sent them home with employees. For many, paper is a thing of the past. An expansive communication network has collapsed a once-massive Earth into smartphones that fit into our pockets. Cloud computing has made all information...

October 21, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “British Parliament” 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 21, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Not good: Ransomware is...

October 19, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NCAA Football” 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 19, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Did you hear about the...

August 29, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “U.S. Open” 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! August 29, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Over a quarter of the...

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...

TAU Threat Discovery: Conti Ransomware

Conti is a new family of ransomware observed in the wild by the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU. Unlike most ransomware, Conti contains unique features that separate it in terms of performance and focus on network-based targets. Conti uses a large number of independent threads to perform...

Managing Team Burn Out

According to the World Health Organization: “Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by three dimensions: feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion increased mental distance from one’s job, or...

VMware Carbon Black Threat Report: One Year Out From the 2020 U.S. Elections, Geopolitical Tension Continues to Spawn Cyberattacks

This morning, VMware Carbon Black released its latest Global Incident Response Threat Report GIRTR. Now in its fourth edition, the GIRTR is written in partnership with VMware Carbon Black's incident response IR partner ecosystem and aggregates input from top IR experts to give you, the reader, a...

CB Customer Spotlight: Q&A with MEDNAX’s Don Cox

With over 30 years of experience in the technology landscape, Don Cox knows what it takes to be a leader in the industry. Currently residing as the CISO at MEDNAX, the physician-led healthcare organization headquartered in Sunrise, FL, Cox is responsible for cyber operations and engineering,...

Partner Perspectives: Detect All Devices, Respond to All Threats

Michael Tanji is the Chief Operations Officer for Senrio. The ability to detect and respond to cyber threats in a timely manner is an essential capability of every security-minded enterprise. Endpoint detection and response EDR solutions, such as Carbon Black’s Cb Response, are a critical compone...

Update on Apple Security Updates for MacOS Impacting Cb Response and Cb Protection Customers

Carbon Black has now made generally available releases to Cb Protection and Cb Response to support the latest OS versions and security update Security Update 2018-001 from Apple for the following Mac sensor/agent releases: Cb Protection: Cb Protection Announcing the Release of Cb Protection 7.2.3...

January 11, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Chess” 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 11, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: The Underground Ransomwa...

November 15, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Lewis and Clark” 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 15, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Some senators want to...

Amid COVID-19, Global Orgs See a 148% Spike in Ransomware Attacks; Finance Industry Heavily Targeted

Cyber criminals often exploit fear and uncertainty during major world events by launching cyberattacks. These attacks are often performed with social engineering campaigns leveraging malicious emails that lure victims to install malware that steals financial data and other valuable personal...

How to Do More with Less — a CISO’s Perspective

I’ve learned a ton of lessons over my years in the InfoSec world. I’ve made a lot of the right calls, but also a bunch of wrong ones. One of the lessons I have learned is how to operate in an environment of scarcity. This lesson started long before my career did. Growing up, I was the child of a...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: njRAT

njRAT is a Remote Access Trojan RAT that will silently collect and steal sensitive information such as login credentials. It can also perform keylogger monitoring, remote desktop control, installing additional malicious software, and many other malicious activities on the victim’s computer. In...

Four More Years… of Remediation

Last week, I read a blog from Brian Krebs about how a recent study showed that ransomware data breaches at hospitals are tied to an uptick in fatal heart attacks. Whenever I see an article with “fatal” and “cyber” in the title, I usually use it as a proof point for why we need less FUD in the...

Small Business Benefits of Moving to the Cloud: Ease of Use

If you’re a security professional at a small business, odds are you’re looking for a solution that isn’t overly complicated and doesn’t require a huge amount of oversight. At Carbon Black, we understand that your security and IT Ops teams are understaffed and your budget is stretched thin...