Carbon Black’s Susan An Named to Rev Boston’s 2018 Top 20 Women List

It is a great honor to announce that Rev Boston recently listed Susan An, Senior Director of Corporate Sales at Carbon Black, on its annual ‘Top 20 Women’ list. Susan is part of the fourth cohort of women to be acknowledged by Rev Boston, an event and award recognizing the top women in technology...

Partner Perspectives: Endpoint Phishing Incident Response with Cofense Intelligence and Cb Response

Mike Saurbaugh is the Director of Technical Alliances for Cofense. Hunting Phished Endpoints with Cofense Intelligence™ and Carbon Black Ransomware, business email compromise BEC, malware infections and credential-based theft all primarily stem from a single vector of compromise - phishing...

Small Business Benefits of Moving to the Cloud: Effective Security

When you’re selecting an endpoint security platform for your small business, you want it to work — and work well. However, less than one third of organizations believe that traditional AV has the power to stop the attacks that they are seeing.1 With fileless malware attacks and ransomware on the...

Iron Mind: Defending Against Propaganda & Counter Victimization

Thomas Jefferson had it right. Propaganda is the greatest threat to any democracy. Or did you just believe a quote that I made up with a picture of him to add credence to this blog? Iron Palm or Iron Hand is a body of training techniques in various martial arts. It is originally one of the 72 art...

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...

Chinese Threat Actors Indicted For Stealing Aviation Trade Secrets

Hot on the heels of the Carbon Black Quarterly IR Threat Report, specifically calling out increased cybercrime activity from China, the US Department of Justice has indicted ten Chinese Nationals for perpetrating attacks against U.S. and French aviation companies in a stunning display of state...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Cb Customer Spotlight with Stonewall Kitchen’s William Bocash

Editor's Note: Stonewall Kitchen upgraded to next-gen AV with Cb Defense and Cb Protection. William Bocash an I.T. Manager for Stonewall Kitchen and author of this blog has more than 17 years experience in the information technology industry, and recently attended Cb Connect 2018. To wrap up the...

5 (Not So) Scary Infosec Questions to Answer this Halloween

It’s Halloween. Time for candy checking, cavities and the start of the retail season. And while attacks will rise around the holidays, don't let the FUD machine get you too scared about things the go bump in the infosec night. Here are five things that should actually concern you. They were easil...

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...

Carbon Black Report: Destructive Cyberattacks Increase Ahead of 2018 Midterm Elections

A trade war with China. A fragile agreement with North Korea. A growing fear of Russian hackers. Ahead of the 2018 U.S. midterm congressional elections, geopolitical conflict continues to play out in cyberspace. According to the world’s top incident response IR professionals, politically motivate...

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...

ATT&CK +osquery = Love

I had the ability to live-stream MITRE's ATT&CKcon, a two-day event where organizations came together as a community to share their best practices with leveraging the ATT&CK framework. At this conference, Scott Lundgren, Chief Architect at Carbon Black ,presented “ATT&CK + osquery = Love,” where ...

What You Should Look For in a Next-Generation Security Solution

Today’s businesses face a unique set of challenges. They want security that works and is easy to implement and manage but, frequently, are working with a limited budget and resources. Many organizations know their current antivirus solution has gaps, but don’t know where to begin in the search fo...

Partner Perspectives: The Power of Shared Intelligence: Juniper Sky ATP and Cb Response

Scott Emo is the Director of Field Readiness, Security, for Juniper Networks. Uncover and Mitigate the Most Sophisticated Cyber Attacks The rapid growth of emerging technologies, combined with an increasing number of connected devices running business-critical applications in highly distributed...

Partner Perspectives: Orchestrating Endpoint Security with CyberSponse and Carbon Black

Amit Jain is the Principal Technical Product Manager at CyberSponse. Today's network security infrastructures are complex beasts. Increasing mobile and cloud deployments have made managing endpoint security more challenging than ever before. The dynamic and ever-evolving nature of today’s...

Excerpts From: Do More with Less—How Endpoint Security in the Cloud is Helping Companies Stay Secure

If you're responsible for security at your company, you know that you're held back by things like limited budgets, a lack of skilled personnel, and too many security products complicating your stack. In Carbon Black’s recent webinar, we discussed how endpoint security in the cloud can simplify yo...

October 16, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Yale” 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 16, 2018 - Headlines U.K. Cyber Security Center Says Most Attacks Are...

The Twenty Minute VC with Carbon Black CEO Patrick Morley

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on TheTwentyMinuteVC.com. Patrick Morley is the President and CEO @ Carbon Black, the company that combines unfiltered data collection, predictive analytics, and cloud-based delivery to provide superior endpoint protection. Prior to their IPO in April...

Partner Perspectives: SOAR with Demisto and Carbon Black

Abhishek Iyer is the Technical Marketing Manager for Demisto. Automate your Endpoint Protection and Incident Response Demisto’s security orchestration and automation platform enables organizations to standardize, automate and coordinate response processes across their security stack. Playbooks...

5 Takeaways From the #CbConnect18 “Women in Cybersecurity” Keynote

Wow, what a great few days here at Cb Connect. Sometimes with conferences, you go out with one problem to solve and leave with 50. Cb Connect really exposed some great ways to solve problems, no matter the size of the team or the Cb product in house. I also had some great takeaways from the 'Wome...

The 4 Core Pillars of Endpoint Security

Cb Connect is always an exciting time for me. At Cb Connect 2017, we unveiled our vision for the Cb Predictive Security Cloud PSC. Over the past year, this platform has expanded and grown to provide better prevention, detection and response for our global customers. Today, at CbConnect18, we...

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...

Empowering Developers: How Unfiltered Data and Custom Integrations Became a Foundation for Carbon Black

Today, we’re hosting our first-ever Developer Day from the sold-out CbConnect18 conference in New York. The day features in-depth, technical workshops to accelerate developers’ ability to extend Carbon Black’s open cloud platform to improve the security stack. The way I see it, this day is years ...

Empowering Developers: How Unfiltered Data and Custom Integrations Became a Foundation for Carbon Black

Today, we’re hosting our first-ever Developer Day from the sold-out CbConnect18 conference in New York. The day features in-depth, technical workshops to accelerate developers’ ability to extend Carbon Black’s open cloud platform to improve the security stack. The way I see it, this day is years ...

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...

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...

China Chip Hack Shines Spotlight on Hardware and Supply-Chain Risk

Recent revelations in the press regarding hardware implants and supply-chain compromise are troubling and should be seen as an opportunity to assess our current threat model and security approach. This recently revealed situation is the hardware analogue to the software supply chain compromises w...

China Chip Hack Shines Spotlight on Hardware and Supply-Chain Risk

Recent revelations in the press regarding hardware implants and supply-chain compromise are troubling and should be seen as an opportunity to assess our current threat model and security approach. This recently revealed situation is the hardware analogue to the software supply chain compromises w...

Partner Perspectives: Integrate your SIEM, UEBA + EDR Solution with Securonix and Carbon Black

Nitin Agale is the Senior VP of Products for Securonix. Your endpoints are a valuable part of your enterprise structure. They are the computers your employees use and the servers your company depends on. Defending your endpoints is important, but it’s critical that your endpoint defense is just o...

Cb Integrations: Cb Response Timeliner

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on StillzTech.com and is being republished with permission from the author. Github: Incident Response is a challenging career. As responders, we must do our best to keep up to date with the latest attack trends, malware and forensic techniques...

Cb Integrations: Cb Response Timeliner

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on StillzTech.com and is being republished with permission from the author. Github: Incident Response is a challenging career. As responders, we must do our best to keep up to date with the latest attack trends, malware and forensic techniques...

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...

Why Small Businesses Need Cloud-Based Endpoint Security

If you run security at a small business, you know that you aren’t immune from attacks. In fact, your intellectual property and data is often more at risk, as you are perceived to be an easier target than enterprise vendors. According to the Ponemon Institute, two thirds of SMBs have had at least...

Partner Perspectives: IR Challenges Solved by IncMan SOAR + Cb Response

John Moran is the Senior Product Manager for DFLabs. Cb Response is one of the most effective endpoint solutions when it comes to detecting, investigating and responding to advanced threats. I do not say this as a marketing person I am not, but as a former incident response consultant who utilize...

Creating a Cyber Panic Room to Fight Off Invasions

Genghis Khan was a mastermind. A terrifyingly brilliant military strategist who altered the course of world history. He used fear to paralyze his enemies. “In one apocryphal account circulated to create anxiety among the enemy, the Mongols supposedly promised to retreat from a besieged city if th...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Bridging the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Pumpkins, football, and cooler weather are three big indicators that it’s officially October. But, the most near and dear benchmark to my heart is that it’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month NCSAM 2018. In its 15th year, NCASM is as an annual initiative to raise awareness about the importanc...

Excerpts from: Using the ATT&CK™ Framework to Mature Your Threat Hunting Program

Every threat hunt starts with intelligence. As one of the industry’s most comprehensive knowledge bases for adversary behavior, ATT&CK provides a structure for hunters to build their hypotheses and search for threats. Recently Carbon Black, Red Canary and MITRE teamed up for the webinar, Using th...

Excerpts From “Why Companies Are Replacing AV with Advanced Endpoint Security”

Is legacy antivirus failing to keep your endpoints secure? In Carbon Black's recent webinar, Fulcanelli Chavez, Sr. Security Operations Analyst at D.A. Davidson, shared how switching from McAfee to Cb Defense has improved protection and simplified operations for his team. Below are excerpts from...

Partner Perspectives: Siemplify & Carbon Black Create Competitive Solution for MSSPs

Meny Har is the VP of Product for Siemplify. Advanced threats and an ever-evolving competitive landscape have created an increased demand for managed security services. Organizations of all sizes are turning to managed security services providers MSSPs to help them to effectively manage their...

Partner Perspectives: Protecting Against Fileless Malware with BluVector and Carbon Black

Josh Rosenthol is the Alliance and Integration Manager for BluVector. The Challenge of Fileless Malware “The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.” -Napoleon Bonaparte While first spoken over 200 years ago, this quote is remarkably relevant to the modus operandi of malware authors a...

Aviation & Logistics: Island Hopping – A Growing Threat

When we think about the industries that have the most to lose from a serious cyber attack, our minds probably immediately go to the Finance, Healthcare, and Energy sectors. And for good reason - as Carbon Black research shows, 78% of IR professionals say they observe attacks on the financial...

Carbon Black Report: A Case Study on Threat Hunting

There are certain seminal experiences you’ll remember all your life — your first kiss, your college graduation, the smell of your favorite home-cooked meal — and then hundreds of mini-experiences that helped you reach each milestone that in short order disappeared from view. The memories you carr...

Carbon Black Report: An Evolution of Cyberattacks

Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report An Evolution of Cyberattacks From Grab-and-Go Breaches to Long-Term Campaigns The data in this report reveals that today’s cyberattacks manifest as increasingly complex, long-term campaigns. Employing high-level tools and techniques, attackers set out to...

Carbon Black Report: Tools of Choice

Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report PowerShell and WMI Remain Tools of Choice for Cyberattacks We’ve long known that PowerShell has been abused, but it is still significant that 100% of respondents say they believe the tool most often helps facilitate lateral movements, followed by WMI at...

Carbon Black Report: A Case Study on No More IR Busy Work

From discovery to data acquisition to remediation, IR teams might spend hours of their precious time doing tedious labor — for instance, going in and grabbing an organization’s relevant forensic artifacts such as event logs one by one. What IR teams want to spend time doing: finding the bad guys...

How The ATT&CK™ Framework Can Mature Your Threat Hunting Program

The truth about threat hunting is that it’s a process that matures with your security team. The more you learn more about the threat landscape, the more you can operationalize that knowledge. Because of this, it is important to work within a framework that can help you track the growth of your...

Partner Perspectives: VMRay + Carbon Black Bridge the Gap Between Threat Hunting & Incident Response

In 2016, Carbon Black and VMRay introduced an out-of-the-box integration combining the capabilities of two industry-best platforms: Cb Response and the VMRay Analyzer. Leveraging the threat hunting and incident response capabilities of Cb Response, alongside the malware analysis and detection...

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...

SANS THIR Summit Wrap Up – “We Have 15 Minutes”

Heading back to San Diego before I get on another flight 30 hours later. Lots of people say "what are you crazy? Why do that?"…to which I say: "we cannot achieve any mission without sacrifice." Going to events like the SANS Threat Hunting IR summit remind just how many dedicated people we have on...

Getting Better Together in Cybersecurity

As the wheels lift up on my latest flight I am left reflecting on another year in infosec. We are moving toward “something” and some days I can’t figure out if that something is disaster or safety. The tea leaves become hard to read with the cyber war that has been raging over into the mainstream...