Since at least the middle of last year, online attackers have been increasingly targeting the financial services sector.
So warns John Fokker, principal engineer and head of cyber investigations for the Advanced Threat Research group at cybersecurity firm Trellix. He says Trellix's latest threat assessment found a...
Unfortunately, in this day and age, protecting assets is more difficult than ever from the corporate point of view. Organizations have spent many years and countless sums of money protecting the perimeter —
so-called “north-south” traffic. Yet agile, adaptive adversaries have found ways to breach perimeter...
Even in the best of times, chief information security officers (CISOs) and their teams face numerous challenges in protecting the brand, the business and
sensitive data against ever-changing threats—all with finite and constrained resources. Today, those challenges are more extreme than ever. In a rapidly
changing...
Ransomware is an epidemic companies can’t ignore. Malware attacks are
becoming more pervasive and sophisticated, while ransomware as a service
now targets governments and companies of every size.
The push for innovation has resulted in unprecedented software development.While this development has been...
Advanced cyberattacks represent a credible threat to the network, data, users and devices of financial institutions of all sizes. Threats range widely in scope, including broad-based attacks on the network itself, focused attacks on individual accounts or employees and the exploitation of vulnerabilities in endpoint...
Traditional alert monitoring is not working.
Most enterprises see over 11,000 alerts per day from an average of 6.8 threat intelligence feeds, according to a 2020 Palo Alto networks report. Almost three-quarters of an analyst’s time is spent “investigating, triaging, or responding to alerts, and most of these...
There are currently 359,000 unfilled/open IT Security Jobs in the U.S. Globally, the shortage of cybersecurity professionals is estimated to be 2.72 Million. The challenges with recruiting, hiring, and retaining experienced security personnel have reached a whole new, maddening level, driven by a system straining to...
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is changing the way businesses address their security risks, and the move to MDR is projected to continue for years to come. The tipping point on the long-predicted shift, according to Gartner Research, comes in 2025, when over 50% of organizations will have adopted some level of...
deepwatch commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Managed Detection and Response (MDR). The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential...
Researchers have observed China-based, government-sponsored threat actors collecting intelligence by targeting Russian government officials with an updated variant of a remote access Trojan known as PlugX. And Microsoft shares a detailed report about Russian cyberattacks observed against Ukraine.
Sophos bought early-stage vendor SOC.OS to help customers detect abnormalities in their IT environment earlier by ingesting data from third-party platforms. SOC.OS will allow customers to extract information sooner from non-Sophos firewalls, network proxies and endpoint security technology.
Speaking about his role as managing director, business information security, at financial giant State Street, TJ Hart says, "I wake up nervous, and I go to bed nervous." But he channels that energy into trying to better understand the threat landscape and use that data to make better business risk decisions.
There’s no question 2021 was the year of vulnerabilities that drained already exhausted security operations teams. From pandemic fatigue to the exploitation of critical business services like Microsoft O365 by crafty threat actors, organizations of all sizes faced increased susceptibility to phishing attacks putting...
Phishing campaigns continue to evolve and innovate. If we learned anything from 2020, it’s that threat actors’ ability to quickly adjust their methods to world events can be lightning fast. From Emotet to Ryuk, and let’s not forget COVID-19, threat actors improved their methods and adapted to world events,...
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