Organizations are just starting to come to grips with the new European Union privacy law, GDPR. Following a flurry of emails and website warnings asking people to acknowledge updated data use policies (which virtually no one reads anyway), the question is “What do we...
Author: Satnam Singh, Chief Data Scientist at Acalvio Technologies How do we detect and profile the adversaries who have already infiltrated and are hiding in the network? To answer this question, we need an approach that can improve the detection and provide more...
Being a CISO these days isn’t easy. The threats are dynamic, the technology hype bewildering, and the expectations from the boss to magically “just make the problem go away” unrelenting. One way to help get a grip on this mess is to adopt industry accepted frameworks...
US-Cert recently issued notification regarding malicious cyber activity by the North Korean government [1] Hidden Cobra. There are two families of malware used by the North Korean Government. Remote Access Tool (RAT) known as Jonap A Server Message Block (SMB) worm...
US Cert recently issued notification regarding malicious cyber activity by the North Korean government [1] as Hidden Cobra. There are two families of malware used by the North Korean Government. Remote Access Tool (RAT) known as Jonap A Server Message Block (SMB)...
Authors: Balamurali A R and Satnam Singh Post Web 2.0, data generated on the internet has increased manifold. This has led to the use of data driven approaches to solve many traditional problems across different industry verticals. Among them, deep learning-based (DL)...
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.