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Hiding in Plain Sight: How to Operationalize Deception for Security Teams
Honeypots. Just those three syllables are enough to cause instant nausea with a cyber security professional. Why? Honeypots are hard to operationalize into an effective, easy to use and consistent defense. But times are changing with the proliferation of deception...
Honeypots are dead! Long live Honeypots (Part4…The Crystal Ball)
Self healing system capabilities, specifically analysis and intelligence shared between Acalvio instances so you end up with a worst case scenario of only company1 getting hit, companies 2,3,4 have automatically learned from company1. IoT, V2V, V2X etc. This...
2017 Predictions AND “wants”
Going to do this one a little differently, part of it is going to be the typical “throw the crystal ball over the shoulder” stuff that we all do…although honestly JUST going to 2017 is not far enough for some of the stuff we are working on…and the other part of this...
Honeypots are dead! Long live Honeypots (Part3…The Future’s Just Changed)
In days gone past (and arguable in the current timeline we occupy) I would simply launch from the existing machine like an Olympic diver off the high board and go about my merry way for an “industrial average” of 200 days or thereabouts before ANYONE even knows or...
Looking Deeper into a Multi Stage Attack
The majority of today’s breaches are comprised of sophisticated multi-stage attacks. The stages of such attacks can best be described by a “Cyber Kill Chain”, which breaks down cyber intrusions into the following steps: Recon → Weaponize → Deliver → Exploit →...
Honeypots are dead! Long live Honeypots (Part2…Landed, Now What?)
Quick Recap: Initial Reconnaissance - Complete Initial Compromise - Complete Establish Footholds - Now Escalate Privileges Additional Reconnaissance where we will move laterally and continue to maintain presence Complete We now need to maintain presence on the...
Honeypots are dead! Long live Honeypots…(Part 1 – Many Targets One Access Point)
Initial Reconnaissance – About to explain Initial Compromise – About to launch Establish Footholds - Escalate Privileges Additional Reconnaissance where we will move laterally and continue to maintain presence Complete Initial Reconnaissance: “Let me show you how I...
Honeypots are dead. Long live honeypots…
Hi, I'm the resident hacker. These are thoughts from that point of view. Early Honeypots were not much of a success. This was deception fail, call it Deception 1.0…It was a great idea, good science experiment, but ultimately didn't stop much...and was not the honeypot...
Announcing Acalvio’s Deception 2.0
Hello! Greetings from Acalvio! We are joining the fight to keep our enterprises safe from malicious activity. While the problem is old, our approach is new and innovative.. read on! The IT industry has paralleled our traditional approach for defending physical assets...