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The Hijacking of Smartphone Cameras and Microphones

Smartphone cameras and microphones act as the eyes and ears of the digital age, capable of capturing the smallest audio and visual details in high-definition clarity. Unfortunately, threat actors have demonstrated the ability to hijack these smartphone components, using them to gain valuable insights about targeted...

Rethinking Mobile Trust

Smartphones present a uniquely large attack surface that has been repeatedly exploited by threat actors, making it risky to trust these devices with important data. Inherent limitations in the mobile architectures of these devices - especially in a world of chip-based attacks - mean that organizations must find new...

The Risk of Leaving Smartphone Sensors Unprotected

If you hold, share or have access to important information, you should assume your smartphone has already been hacked. Unprotected smartphones could pose the greatest security risks to governments, enterprises and individuals. Consider what's at stake and prevent hackers from capitalizing on your...

Threat Intelligence Playbook

A new era of cyber threats has dawned. Ransomware has advanced significantly and is now capable of taking out infrastructure and operations across the globe, weaponizing known vulnerabilities such as EternalBlue and crippling businesses for months or more. WannaCry marked the start of these techniques and was one of...

2018 Cybersecurity Report Card

Like it or not, good grades matter. As organizations become increasingly focused on benchmarking internal groups for their ability to run efficiently and add business value, cybersecurity teams must be positioned to measure their programs' effectiveness and sophistication against industry standards. In this second...

SANS 2018 Threat Hunting Survey

This survey report reveals that for many organizations, threat hunting is still new and poorly defined from a process and organizational standpoint. Most are still reacting to alerts and incidents instead of proactively seeking out the threats. While the act of threat hunting cannot be fully automated, it heavily...

The Essential Guide to Security: Solve Security Challenges

While the modern enterprise embraces digital technology, it is also at risk of cyberattacks. In this guide, "The Essential Guide to Security," we map out how organizations can use machine data for specific use cases and get started addressing threats and security challenges. Download your complimentary copy to...

What Organizations Need to Prioritize for Upcoming Canadian PIPEDA Compliance

A key amendment to Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act goes into effect on Nov. 1. What are the baseline standards for compliance, and how does this change impact risk transfer and mitigation? While PIPEDA is not a new law and been on the books for a long time, what is coming is...

The Emergence and Maturity of Mobile Threat Defense

There is greater awareness to the proliferation of mobile threats, and yet many organizations still underestimate their own vulnerabilities. Mobile security should be taken just as seriously - if not more so - as traditional endpoints. Every employee behind a desktop computer also has at least one mobile device...

Managed Threat Hunting and the Value of the 'Human Detection Engine'

Increasingly, threat hunting is a practice that enterprises want to understand and implement. But it is not always feasible to do so in-house, given the demand for resources and skills. That's where managed threat hunting enters.

19 Minutes: A Minute-by-Minute Account of Stopping a Phishing Attack in Healthcare

It was a cunningly crafted phish... Employees at a healthcare company were going about their day when they received an email from their CEO - and it wasn't a typical meeting invitation. The email asked them to read and agree to a company policy. Simple. Just click on a link, login with their credentials and go to...

Steer Your Course: Keep One Successful Phishing Attack from Sinking your Organization

Phishing is one of the most devastating threats hitting organizations every day. It's the most dangerous and costly cyber threat across the globe. Just one successful phishing attempt against your employees provides the foothold that cyber criminals need to access your entire corporate network. A joint study...

Case Study: Empowering Employees to Mark Suspicious Phishing Emails

Employees at Mesa Systems, a residential, commercial and logistics-based transportation solutions provider, were being tricked with highly sophisticated spear phishing emails causing much confusion in the workplace and a ton of overhead for the IT Department. So what did they do? This case study reviews how Mesa...

Phishing Thrives During Rising Tide of Cybersecurity Threats

Phishing attacks continue in 2018 to be very successful, regardless of all of the training employees have received. Threatening every organization around the world, attackers consider phishing a go-to technique to gain access to the network because it yields great success. With limited IT staff, budget constraints and...

Analytics-Driven Security in Government: Breaking Down What You Need to Know

The cyberthreat landscape is rapidly changing. As attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication, agency defenses also must evolve. In order to do so, many agencies are moving toward a more holistic, analytics-driven approach to security. By gaining an end-to-end view of what's happening inside an agency...