From ransomware to business email compromise, most of today's Internet scourges - in spite of vast differences in their appearances - are related to each other and depend on a small number of reused adversarial techniques. Decomposing the threats into these atomic building blocks is helpful to understand the nature of...
Monetarily motivated attacks are by far the most prevalent cyberthreats to organizations worldwide, yet vulnerability management techniques have largely failed to adapt to a threat landscape dominated by distributed crimeware. By understanding the commercialization of attack tools and services - particularly the...
The WannaCry ransomware outbreak showcases the problem: Security pros are overwhelmed by vulnerabilities that could be simple to mitigate, if only they had the right info at the right time. Humphrey Christian of Bay Dynamics discusses how to improve vulnerability risk management.
The topic arises not just because of...
This session will review the latest trends in ongoing and emerging cyberthreats posed by cybercriminals. FBI Supervisory Special Agent Matt Braverman will walk through the latest tactics being used in ransomware, business email compromise exploits and other cyber-extortion schemes, and discuss the FBI's stance on how...
In 2016, many organizations were victims of ransomware attacks while others believe they will become a target this year.
Fifty-two percent of security leaders rate their organizations at above average or superior when it comes to detecting or blocking ransomware before it locks or encrypts data in their systems....
In 2010, a computer security firm in Belarus stumbled upon Stuxnet, a mysterious virus of unparalleled complexity that was attacking systems in Iran. Unlike any other virus or worm built before, this one didn't just simply hijack the targeted computers or steal information from them, it escaped the digital realm to...
Cyber-extortion has reached new proportions, with a wide variety of methods, such as distributed-denial-of-service attacks and ransomware variants, being used to extort individuals and organizations. Ransomware-DDoS hybrid attacks, like Cerber, have showcased how attackers have added DDoS capabilities to ransomware....
Deception is the most successful strategy in military history. Just as armies used deceit to conquer continents, cyber-deception is being used by more and more organizations to exploit a hacker's greatest weakness - being a human, after all, behind a keyboard. Deception techniques such as honeypots are not a new. But...
Making the right decisions about how to deploy Office 365 can be a show-stopper, particularly as you consider branch office and remote user connectivity. Each Office 365 user generates between 12 and 20 persistent connections. Each connectivity option, ExpressRoute, hub-and-spoke or direct-to-Internet, deals with this...
This monthly Security Agenda will highlight some of the most recent additions to our course library. March's edition features Former Federal CISO
Gregory Touhill giving a "Cyber State of the Union." Other industry influencers like Retired RSA Chair Art Coviello, FBI Cyber Division Supervisory Special Agent Jay...
The business of the cyberattack has matured into a billion dollar industry. Forrester even predicts the devastating effects of a cyberbreach will lead to the failure of a Fortune 1000 company in 2017 (Predictions 2017: Cybersecurity Risks Intensify, November 2016, Forrester). Extortion-based attacks like ransomware...
With Verizon's data breach investigations team finding that 90 percent of breaches trace to a phishing or other social engineering attack, lead investigator Chris Novak says that using multifactor authentication should be a no-brainer for all organizations.
This monthly Security Agenda will highlight some of the most recent additions to our course library. February's edition features Gartner analyst Avivah Litan discussing "Endpoint Detection and Behavioral Analytics." Other industry influencers like RSA's Principal Manager of Identity Protection, Angel Grant, Co-Founder...
Cyber crime and money laundering are growing and evolving at a faster rate than many organizations can keep pace with, especially while staying within regulatory requirements. The result is an uncertain and rapidly-changing global financial landscape.
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In a reminder that healthcare organizations continue to be targeted by more than just crypto-locking extortionists, a cyberattack against an NHS trust didn't involve ransomware - as some initial reports suggested - but rather a never-before-seen Trojan.
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