Attivo Networks®, an award-winning leader in cyber deception and attacker lateral movement threat detection, today announced it will host a pre-recorded session at the 2020 Executive Women’s Forum titled: “How to Navigate the Role of a Business Leader and a Technology Leader.” Carolyn Crandall, chief deception officer and CMO of Attivo Networks, and Kumar R. …
The cybersecurity of financial institutions is appearing as a top priority for the Bank of England in the coming months. The central bank will focus on stress testing IT defences for online attacks and establishing new standards for how quickly and effectively financial institutions should contain these breaches. The objective is to improve banks’ operational …
Attivo Networks®, an award-winning leader in cyber deception and attacker lateral movement threat detection, today announced it will host a webinar titled, “Cost Savings of Deception Quantified.” The webinar will be hosted by Carolyn Crandall, Chief Deception Officer and CMO of Attivo Networks, and Kevin Fiscus, SANS Institute Principal Instructor and founder of Deceptive Defense. …
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Ransomware is evolving. Threat actors are moving away from indiscriminate attacks, instead choosing their marks very carefully with precisely targeted ransomware to achieve their desired outcome. In addition to targeting specific companies, they are striking at the most important and lucrative parts of the network. Often this is done with complete disregard for ethics. For …
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When organizations start transitioning back to the office from the current pandemic-wrought remote work environment, there will likely be some relief for seemingly having made it through lockdown successfully. However, with threat activity reaching record levels in this period, there is every chance employees return to the office and bring malicious programs and code that’s …
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When it comes to stopping cyber attackers, most information security teams primarily concern themselves with north-south traffic. This traffic moves between an internal network and the broader internet, and it is where most security tools, including firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention tools, tend to focus their efforts. This line of thinking is understandable — to …
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Ransomware attacks are on the rise – and they are getting more and more sophisticated and destructive. That is bad news for executives struggling to maintain a high level of cybersecurity even as their organizations continue to cope with the massive impact of a pandemic. The good news? Technology is available to help companies better …
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Attivo Networks®, an award-winning leader in cyber deception and attacker lateral movement threat detection, today announced it will host a live “Ask Me Anything Session” at RiskSec DIGITAL 2020 Conference titled, “The Expanded Attack Surface and Your Security Stack – Are you Ready?” Session speakers will be Carolyn Crandall, chief deception officer of Attivo Networks, …
Comments from Carolyn Crandall, Chief Deception Officer, Attivo Networks When selecting a remote workforce protection solution, CISOs need to consider three key areas: exposed endpoints, security for Active Directory (AD) and preventing malware from spreading. Exposed endpoints: standard anti-virus software and VPNs are no match for advanced signature-less or file-less attack techniques. EDR tools enhance …
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One of the most popular targets for attackers, cybercriminals, and other bad actors is east/west network traffic. This is network traffic that originates from one internal host or network segment, and whose destination is another internal host or network segment. North/south traffic, on the other hand, moves from an internal network out to the Internet. …
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