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CEO fraud has risen sharply in recent months. These CEO fraud scams target or impersonate CEOs, CFOs, or other C-level executives. Secureworks head of threat intelligence APAC Alex Tilley speaks with iTWireTV about how this works and, importantly, how organisations can reduce their risk of compromise.
Reports indicate companies with more than a thousand employees typically have 70 security products from 35 different vendors - resulting in alert fatigue as security teams try to discern what matters. iTWireTV spoke with Secureworks chief sales officer Ian Bancroft and Secureworks director and GM APAC Demetrios Georgiou about extended detection and response and how it can make a huge difference in identifying and responding to security issues.
Secureworks Counter Threat Unit researchers find evidence that threat group Bronze President appears to be changing its targeting, believing it to reflect changing intelligence collection requirements of the People’s Republic of China.
COMPANY NEWS: Secureworks, a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and full fiscal year, which ended on 28 January 2022.
COMPANY NEWS: Secureworks, a global leader in cyber security, today was named Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 Best Practices Company of the Year for driving the evolution of the managed and professional security services market with its cloud-native Taegis XDR. The award recognises Secureworks for its customer impact, as well as its visionary innovation and leadership in cybersecurity. The award also recognises Secureworks for its best practices in solution implementation, financial achievement, and customer value.
Security, performance, and reliability company Cloudflare partners with cyber insurance companies to help businesses manage their risks online.
COMPANY NEWS: Security company Secureworks has released its financial results for the third quarter ending on 29 October 2021.
Security specialist Secureworks has appointed Demetrios Georgiou to the role of director of APAC.
GUEST INTERVIEW: We live in a time of cyber war, with businesses under constant attack, with ransomware running riot, with COVID providing chaos and cover for cyber criminals to extort and blackmail, but the bad guys aren't the only ones on the playing field: Secureworks and other security firms are working hard to fight back to keep businesses and individuals protected.
GUEST INTERVIEW: We live in a time of cyber war, with businesses under constant attack, with ransomware running riot, with COVID providing chaos and cover for cyber criminals to extort and blackmail, but the bad guys aren't the only ones on the playing field: Secureworks and other security firms are working hard to fight back to keep businesses and individuals protected.
Global security solutions vendor Secureworks has appointed Wendy K. Thomas to the role of President and Chief Executive Officer, replacing Michael R. Cote who has retired as CEO and as a member of the Secureworks Board of Directors.
Security solutions vendor Secureworks says the integration of its Counter Threat Unit (CTU) into Taegis VDR (vulnerability and detection response) eliminates threats and vulnerabilities before they can pose risks, and by detecting vulnerabilities, Taegis VDR ican reduce remediation by 15 times.
Security firm Lmntrix has appointed Simon Ractliffe as its vice president of strategic partnerships.
Windows ransomware has now hit much closer to home, with cyber criminals using the REvil ransomware to attack the Melbourne-based contract formulation and packing company Chem Pack.
Researchers at security company Secureworks say they have been tracking Windows ransomware that stays below the radar by first exploiting a network vulnerability to gain entry into a Windows machine and then infecting that machine and others on the same internal network.
Unpatched Internet-facing Oracle WebLogic servers running on both Windows and Linux have been infected with cryptocurrency-mining malware, causing a degradation in performance, the security company Secureworks claims.
ANALYSIS The current reds-under-the-beds scare in the US is increasingly being sold by the media, with unproven claims often being paraded as fact. A prime case of this was seen recently when the Associated Press claimed that the group that had allegedly targeted Hillary Clinton last year had also been hacking many other foes of the Russian state.
The fear of a loss of reputation is the primary motivator for organisations to seek penetration testing of their networks, to find out how secure they are against likely intruders, according to a senior penetration tester with security firm SecureWorks.
Dell Technologies is celebrating the anniversary of its formation through the merger of Dell and EMC.
A campaign using a fake female persona to infect the Windows computers of people working in certain industries in the Middle East and North Africa with remote access trojans has been uncovered by the Counter Threat Unit of security company SecureWorks.
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