Rise Above the Fray with The NIST Cybersecurity Framework
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...
Lateral Movement Technique Employed by Hidden Cobra
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...Lateral Movement Technique by Hidden Cobra Threat Actor
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)...
Using Deep Learning for Information Security – Part 1
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)...
Deception Deployment Strategies : Threat Agnostic vs. Service Agnostic
In our previous blogs[1][2], we have shared details of detection of breach campaigns and worms by using Deception. A Distributed Deception Platform (DDP) consists of the breadcrumbs and lures at the endpoint pointing to the honey services in the network. The DDP can...
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