Adapting “The Pilot’s Checklist” to the Cybersecurity Space

More and more often, we hear about another high-profile cybersecurity breach or ransomware attack at a large, well-known organization. Cybersecurity breaches seem to be inevitable at this juncture. While reading about these events, one thing is painfully clear: cybersecurity practitioners are...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Threat Hunting Teams & CIR

Carbon Black recently published a report on the newest threats facing the financial world, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live...

10 Endpoint Security Problems Solved by the Cloud – Keeping Up To Date

Last week, we examined the state of endpoint security and discussed why most solutions on the market aren’t doing their job. The rest of this blog series will dig further into the topic and look at 10 specific problems with traditional AV software, and how cloud-based security solutions solve the...

In the New “Wild West” Even “Small” Cryptocurrency Theft is Costing Billions

Over the weekend, another cryptocurrency exchange was breached. This time it was “only” $40 million” in cryptocurrency. However, as a result cryptocurrencies overall lost more than $40 billion in value following the attack. That’s not a typo - a $40 million heist cost the market more than $40...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Ransomware

Carbon Black recently published a report on the latest ransomware attack methods, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live Demo, eve...

Register for Carbon Black’s 2018 Customer Conference – Cb Connect in NYC – Oct. 10 & 11

Cb Connect, Carbon Black’s premier customer and partner event of the year, heads to New York City this fall for a two-day conference at Center 415, where you’ll join hundreds of security professionals to discuss: Moving your endpoint security to the cloud Best practices for threat hunting and...

10 Endpoint Security Problems Solved by the Cloud – An Introduction

Question: Where do 70% of successful breaches begin? Answer: The endpoint. The State of Endpoint Security Traditional defensive security solutions are fighting a losing battle against hackers and malware. With each day, new attacks and viruses appear and keeping systems safe is like bailing out a...

What ‘Nightingale Floors’ From Historical Japan Can Teach Us About Intrusion Suppression

Multinational corporations are under siege from a multiplicity of threat actors. The cyber arms bazaar that flourishes around the world has allowed for criminals and nations to wage long-term campaigns against corporations and government agencies. These cyber criminals stalk businesses and...

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...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Non Malware Attack Methods

Carbon Black recently published a report on the latest non-malware attack methods, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live Demo,...

Carbon Black Threat Report: Cryptocurrency Gold Rush on the Dark Web

Cryptocurrencies. A decade ago, names such as Bitcoin, Dash, Etherem, and Monero were merely buzzwords. Fast forward to today, and they’ve become as recognizable as the U.S. dollar and the Euro. In many realms, these digital currencies are ushering in a new era of investing – a modern gold rush,...

Partner Perspectives: How TrapX & Carbon Black Use Deception Technology to Better Protect Your Enterprise

As organizations continue to move toward digital transformation, the digital workspace ecosystem of IoT devices, endpoints, and networks continues to grow and evolve. This new landscape creates many opportunities for potential attackers. Security becomes even more important for everyone in this n...

Carbon Black TAU Threat Analysis: Emotet Banking Trojan Leverages MS Office Word Docs, PowerShell to Deliver Malware

Emotet is a family of banking malware, which has been around since at least 2014. Attackers continue to leverage variants of Emotet and are becoming increasingly shrewd in the techniques they employ to deliver the malware onto an infected system. In the spring of 2018 Carbon Black's Threat Analys...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Overview

Carbon Black recently published a report on the newest threats facing the financial world, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live...

When Looking at Data, It’s All A Matter of Preference

Are you a cash or card kind of person? Currency has always been fascinating to me. Plenty of us grew up with parents who predominantly carried cash, paid all bills through mail, and even balanced a checkbook! I will never forget the days of taking my paychecks down to the bank and waiting in line...

Carbon Black’s Colleen Grounds and Melanie Holterhoff Named to CRN’s 2018 Women of the Channel List

Carbon Black's Colleen Grounds, Director of Channel Marketing, and Melanie Holterhoff, Channel Marketing Manager, have been named to CRN's prestigious 2018 “Women of the Channel” list. View the full news release here. The women who comprise this annual list span the IT channel, representing...

Modern Bank Heists: Cybersecurity Threats Facing the Financial Sector

Despite investing heavily in security, financial institutions continue to experience cyber attacks at a rapid pace. Conducted primarily for the purpose of yielding illicit financial gain, cyber attacks against the financial services industry are increasing in sophistication and are often...

5 Reasons Why AV Can’t Protect Your Data Center

Why are so many organizations lagging behind in performing security assessments of virtual assets in their datacenter? One contributing factor is the impact of virtualization on the datacenter has happened so quickly and organically, that products and processes haven’t kept up. Even now, there is...

Unlock Your SOC with Exabeam and Carbon Black

Endpoints are not safe. There I’ve said it. The network boundaries are gone and endpoints are left exposed directly to threats. Just like watching my kids move out of the house and worrying about how they will fare in the world on their own, we have to realize endpoints are no longer protected by...

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 ...

Turning the Tables on Cyber Attackers

Today, Carbon Black joins the community of public companies NASDAQ: CBLK. While we are humbled and excited by this milestone, we also acknowledge there’s plenty of progress still to be made. For Carbon Black as a company and the industry as a whole, that progress starts with shifting the balance ...

Carbon Black: A “Great Place to Work”

I am excited to announce Carbon Black has been certified as a “Great Place to Work” by the Great Place to Work Institute. It’s Carbon Black’s first such accolade on a national level and speaks volumes for our nearly 1,000 employees worldwide who come to work every day to create a world safe from...

3 Takeaways From RSAC 2018

Once a year, the cybersecurity community gathers to discuss the latest advancements and commiserate as to how we can shift the tide of the global cyber insurgency. It was recently noted that the cyber crime economy is roughly 10 times larger than the cybersecurity industry. Wow. That's a large...

Carbon Black’s Commitment to GDPR & Keeping Customer Data Safe

At Carbon Black, keeping our customers’ data safe is a top priority. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation “GDPR”, a comprehensive European privacy law that takes effect on May 25, 2018, has shined a light on the importance of securing personal data. The GDPR is designed to...

Carbon Black’s Predictive Security Cloud (PSC) To Help Power Newly Launched IBM X-Force Threat Management Services

Today is another exciting day for Carbon Black and IBM! This morning we announced Carbon Black has expanded its relationship with IBM Security as the Cb Predictive Security Cloud PSC™ will be part of the newly launched IBM X-Force Threat Management Services to further combat advanced threats acro...

The Tenth (& Final) Question Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answer To)

In previous blogs, we discussed Commander’s Intent for CEOs and introduced 10 questions CEOs should be asking their teams. This week covers the final question in the series but does not complete the cybersecurity conversation for CEOs. This should never end. Security must be an ongoing program th...

5 Crypto Crime Concerns: Your Top Cryptocurrency Mining Questions Answered

By the end of 2017, cryptojacking, or the secret use of computing resources for mining cryptocurrency, had already gained noticeable momentum. It’s a smart strategy if you’re a cyber criminal. Why try and ransom someone’s system and wait for them to pay you when you can essentially print money?...

Eliminating Dwell Time with Cb Response and Red Canary

How Can I Efficiently Organize and Lead the People on My Team? Organizing your team to protect your environment with agility is a difficult task with all the varied skills and challenges related to traditional security operations center SOC structures. We asked our partners at Red Canary, who eve...

Carbon Black Given 5-Star Rating in CRN’s 2018 Partner Program Guide

We are proud to announce that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has given Carbon Black a 5-Star rating in its 2018 Partner Program Guide. According to CRN, this annual guide is the definitive listing of partner programs from technology vendors that provide products and services through the IT...

The Ninth Question Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answer 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...

With the Carbon Black Integration Network (CbIN), We’re Delivering Stronger Cybersecurity via Open APIs

Today is another exciting day for Carbon Black, as we unveil the Carbon Black Integration Network CbIN, a technology partner program designed to improve cybersecurity through collective defense and powered by Carbon Black’s open APIs and the Cb Predictive Security CloudTM PSC. Security teams toda...

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...

Partner Perspectives: How an IT Service Provider and Red Canary Stopped a Malware Outbreak

Editor's Note: This blog originally appeared on redcanary.com. In this post, a technical account manager recounts how Red Canary partnered with an IT service provider to help one of their customers stop a rapidly spreading network worm. This blog goes behind the scenes of the incident response...

The Eighth Question Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answer 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 Moving Endpoint Security to the Predictive Cloud: Choosing the Right Cloud

Carbon Black recently published a whitepaper on the reasons and benefits of moving endpoint security to the cloud; this is the first excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how the Cb Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's comprehensive endpoint protection...

Carbon Black Elevated to CDW Emerging Gold Partner

I am proud to announce that CDW recently elevated Carbon Black from the “Silver” partner designation to “Emerging Gold!” This honor is a true testament to our growing partnership with CDW. It’s also a reflection of CDW’s continued commitment to endpoint security by leveraging Next-Generation...

Carbon Black Strengthens Relationship with VMware, Supports Workspace ONE Trust Network

As organizations continue to move toward digital transformation, the digital workspace ecosystem of users, apps, endpoints, and networks continues to grow and evolve beyond the traditional perimeter. While the traditional perimeter dissolves, cyber threats evolve and new ones emerge. Security...

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...

The Seventh Question Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answer 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 Moving Endpoint Security to the Predictive Cloud: Simplified Operations

Carbon Black recently published a whitepaper on the reasons and benefits of moving endpoint security to the cloud; this is the first excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how the Cb Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's comprehensive endpoint protection...

Threat Analysis: Recent Attack Technique Attempts to Bypass Whitelisting by Leveraging MS Office Document Macros, MSBuild, Certutil

Carbon Black continues to monitor and track evolving techniques that attackers leverage. Over the last several years, there has been an increase in attackers leveraging open source frameworks and proof of concept POC techniques that are released publically by researchers. A document was recently...

The Future of Cybersecurity Is in the Cloud

For decades we have feared the cloud. During my time working counterintelligence for the FBI, we feared the Internet so much that agency computers functioned solely on an isolated intranet connected via hard cables. It’s no wonder to me that that government has still not embraced the unlimited...

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...

A Star Wars Analogy to Defend Against Non-Malware Attacks and the Dark Side

I like watching movies because I can relate almost anything in my real life to the movies I watched. Last week, I did a presentation at "Security Days Tokyo 2018," and I used Star Wars to describe the targeted attacks, non-malware attacks, AI-based, NGAV, etc. The Star Wars analogies were well...

Excerpts from Moving Endpoint Security to the Predictive Cloud: Better Security

Carbon Black recently published a whitepaper on the reasons and benefits of moving endpoint security to the cloud; this is the first excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how the Cb Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's comprehensive endpoint protection...

What Is FIPS 140-2 & Why Does It Matter?

Editor's Note: Ray Potter, the blog's author, is the CEO and Co-founder of SafeLogic. Carbon Black has just announced the successful FIPS 140-2 validation of their Carbon Black Cryptographic Module and availability within their Cb Response and Cb Protection products. Our team at SafeLogic is...

With the Predictive Security Cloud (PSC) Leading the Way, Carbon Black is Named One the “Coolest 20 Vendors in Endpoint Security” by CRN

Editor’s Note: Victor Baez, Carbon Black’s VP of WW Channel and this blog’s author, was recently named a 2018 CRN Channel Chief. As part of CRN's annual Security 100 list, 20 endpoint companies have been named “Coolest Endpoint Security Vendors of 2018.” Carbon Black is among them. We are honored...

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...

Carbon Black Opens New Research and Development Office in Greater Portland, Oregon

Carbon Black is proud to announce our new office opening in Hillsboro, Oregon – just outside of Portland. The office will serve as a center for research and development, with a focus on bringing new products to market. Hillsboro lies just outside of Portland, a city that experienced a 40-percent...

Welcome to the Cyber-Regulatory Market of 2018 and Beyond

In the past few years, we’ve seen an increase in the number of companies facing legal consequences for ineffectively meeting deadlines requiring them to measure the effectiveness of their security solutions. Combined with these deadlines, companies also have to prove they have awareness and contr...