Botnet operators are increasingly selling access to interesting zombie PCs, as well as continuing to launch DDoS and financial attacks, warns Menno van der Marel, CEO of investigation firm Fox-IT.
To better secure enterprise networks, as well as detect and respond more rapidly to data breaches, businesses need to know the who, what, where, when and why of all endpoints that connect to network resoruces, says ForeScout's Sandeep Kumar.
Experts like Gartner tell us we need layered cyber defenses that include next-generation firewalls (NGFW) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) to identify and stop attacks at the gate combined with defenses to identify and help remediate successful breaches before they can spread. In fact, the Gartner adaptive...
Some of the most serious threats networks face today are "bots," remotely controlled robotic programs that strike in many different ways and deliver destructive payloads, self propagating to infect more and more systems and eventually forming a "botnet."
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Businesses have relied on endpoint defenses like anti-virus software for protection against malware. But while endpoint defenses are necessary, the headlines show they are not sufficient. Rather than relying on endpoint security alone, Gartner recommends businesses balance their investment across all four phases of...
When you are hacked, every second matters. It's critical to detect and stop the attack before serious damage is done to your business. HP TippingPoint Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) examines every packet of network traffic at wire speeds to detect and block attacks.
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The security industry has thousands of researchers looking for vulnerabilities in the software you use - HP Security Research alone has more than 3000. But how do you apply the security intelligence they develop to the job of protecting your network?
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As the U.S. completes its payments migration to the EMV chip, merchants and card issuers should be bracing for an uptick in card-not-present fraud, says Carol Alexander, head of payment security at software provider CA Technologies.
(ISC)² and the Cloud Security Alliance have unveiled a new cloud security professional certification designed to measure advanced competence. Will training for the certification help professionals gain a better understanding of cloud security?
Miercom, a leading security testing firm, recently performed a head to head security efficacy analysis of network-based breach detection and Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) prevention solutions that utilize sandboxing. Zscaler Internet Security and FireEye Web MPS 1310 were tested, and Miercom found the Zscaler...
In conducting due diligence, investors spend more time than ever assessing the cyber-risk posed by the company targeted for acquisition, says Jacob Olcott, VP for business development at Bitsight Technologies.
Protecting against advanced cyber-attacks requires, among other things, that you meet the same level of sophistication as your attackers. Unfortunately, most current security technologies fail to meet that bar, resulting in organizations being breached when they thought they were protected.
A resulting breach can be...
The Department of Homeland Security will establish a Silicon Valley satellite office to improve relations with IT security vendors and recruit cybersecurity talent, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a keynote address at RSA Conference 2015.
It could come tomorrow, or perhaps two years from now. It could arrive in many forms, perhaps as a distributed denial of service attack or malware siphoning off company secrets. Whatever its shape or nature, the first question is not whether an enterprise-threatening incident will come, but instead when. And the same...
Major data breaches affecting some of world's largest organizations have elevated cyber security to a top concern of executives and board directors. These data loss events can result in serious repercussions for businesses, including financial damage.
When it comes to significant breaches, BitSight botnet grades...
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