If there’s any organization that knows about dealing with advanced persistent threats (APTs) it’s NIST. The US government is constantly targeted by the most sophisticated adversaries, and the attacks are directed at both the government agencies themselves,...
Complete the Analogy: “Amazon Firestick” is to “VCR”, as “Deception” is to _________. Correct Answer: “Honeypot” Remember your SAT or ACT exams with the analogy questions? If so you probably got this one right. For those of us old enough to remember, Video Cassette...
If you’ve ever had a security vendor pitch their wiz-bang internal network threat prevention solution, you’ve probably thought at some point “You’re getting ahead of yourself. First we need to know what’s going on, then we can talk about active controls on the...
The Zero Trust security model is conceptually simple, but fiendishly difficult to implement at scale. Zero Trust (ZT) simply means that we cannot trust the perimeter to keep the bad guys out, and therefore all internal network traffic must be considered malicious...
Authors: Santosh Kosgi, Mohammad Waseem, Arunabha Choudhury, and Satnam Singh Deep Learning-based methods have been successfully applied to various computer vision and NLP based problems recently [1]. AI researchers have achieved statistically significant improvements...
I recently saw a news article published by Symantec stating that cyber criminals are shifting their attack techniques. According to Symantec, “For the first time since 2013, ransomware infections declined, dropping by 20 percent.” Due to the sharp decline in the price...
When you think threat hunting, what comes to mind? For most enterprise security staff, the answer is “Hmmm, not sure if that’s for me”. It’s true that threat hunting is a bit daunting: What goals am I going to achieve? What will I do if I actually find an adversary? Do I have the skills […]
What’s the biggest lesson from the SolarWinds fiasco? Just focusing security defenses on the most common means of penetrating an organization doesn’t cut it.
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