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COMPANY NEWS: Attivo Networks, the experts in identity security and lateral movement attack prevention, today announced the availability of its Endpoint Detection Net (EDN) Suite on SentinelOne's Singularity XDR Marketplace, a first-of-its-kind application ecosystem that unifies prevention, detection, and response data and actions across attack surfaces with a few simple clicks.

Security vendor Attivo Networks has appointed Exclusive Networks as its national distributor in Australia.

GUEST OPINION by Jim Cook, ANZ Regional Director, Attivo Networks:  Attacks against public and private sector assets reached a crescendo in 2021, and moves are now underway to stem the tide more permanently.

COMPANY NEWS: Attivo Networks, the leader in lateral movement attack detection and privilege escalation prevention, today announced that Tom Kellermann has joined the company's Advisory Board.

GUEST RESEARCH: Attivo Networks, the experts in preventing identity privilege escalation and detecting lateral movement attacks, today announced the availability of a new research report conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and commissioned in part by Attivo Networks. The report focuses on Active Directory (AD), the directory-based identity services platform used by 90% of enterprises worldwide, exploring the obstacles and threats organisations face when protecting AD and how they adapt to address these growing concerns.

GUEST RESEARCH: Attivo Networks, the experts in preventing identity privilege escalation and detecting lateral movement attacks, announced today a new white paper from Aite-Novarica Group, a leading advisory firm covering business, technology, and regulatory issues in financial services industry. The report recognises the leadership Attivo Networks demonstrates in Active Directory protection.

Identity detection and response specialist Attivo Networks' new TheatStrike technology is said to hide real credentials from attacker tools and bind them to their applications, while showing decoy credentials as bait for threat intelligence gathering.

Attivo Networks' IDEntitleX cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) product is designed to deliver visibility and reduce the attack surface of cloud identities and entitlements.

GUEST OPINION by Jim Cook, ANZ Regional Director at Attivo Networks: When the global SolarWinds cyberattack came to light earlier this year, it sparked grave concerns across private and public-sector organisations. If attackers could use software from a trusted vendor to breach defences, how could security ever be guaranteed again?

MEGA UPDATED: More than FIFTY top IT companies in Australia have provided IT industry commentary on Australia’s 2021 Federal Budget, focusing on the digital economy, cyber security, business and more.

Company News: Attivo Networks, the industry experts in lateral movement attack detection and privilege escalation prevention, announced today a new integration for the Attivo EDN Suite with SentinelOne's Singularity XDR platform. With an uptick in the number of human and machine entities to secure, the attack surface is expanding, making it challenging for organisations to protect their networks from credential-based attacks.

We asked a number of IT executives what the 'new normal' might look like as the impact of COVID-19 wanes.

GUEST OPINION by Jim Cook, ANZ Regional Director, Attivo Networks: With cybercriminals always on the hunt for new ways to mount attacks, organisations are paying more attention to the weaknesses that exist within many deployments of Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD).

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PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: Quantea and Attivo have announced a "new joint cybersecurity solution" amidst IoT innovation and the surge in cyberattacks during the pandemic.

GUEST OPINION by Jim Cook, ANZ Regional Director, Attivo Networks: In today’s hyper-connected business world, maintaining effective IT security is a complex task. New cyber threats are constantly emerging, and the risk of disruption and loss has never been higher. With this challenge in mind, the US-based MITRE Corporation recently unveiled a new knowledge base designed to help organisations better understand security risks and the steps they can take to counter them.

We posed this question to a broad swathe of senior industry executives. Here's what they had to say.

GUEST OPINION by Jim Cook, Attivo Networks:  Separating truth from fiction in these days of social media campaigns and so-called fake news can often be challenging. As a result, false data that appears valuable can influence people.

Attivo Networks has updated its ThreatPath credential exposure tool to identify and remediate high-risk exposures based on identities with excess privileges, application data sources, at-risk practices such as local admin credentials stored on the endpoint, and shadow admin accounts.