Displaying items by tag: deception technology

To what degree can you hope to control the actions of an attacker, says Jim Cook, ANZ Regional Director, Attivo Networks

When we hear about cybersecurity incidents, it is mostly because an attacker is in the box seat and in control. Perhaps they have breached a company and exfiltrated data, or unleashed ransomware or some other type of malware payload.

Deception technology vendor Attivo Networks' Endpoint Detection Net (EDN) product now protects agains device fingerprinting.

GUEST OPINION by Jim Cook Attivo Networks: A long time target for adversaries, Active Directory is getting a long-awaited defensive makeover, writes Jim Cook, ANZ Regional Director, Attivo Networks.

GUEST OPINION by Jim Cook Attivo Networks: A long time target for adversaries, Active Directory is getting a long-awaited defensive makeover, writes Jim Cook, ANZ Regional Director, Attivo Networks.

Malware targeting older embedded and Windows operating systems has been found on a range of network-connected medical devices including heart monitors, insulin pumps, MRI scanners, and X-ray machines in the UK.

We have all heard it hundreds of times – a network breach is inevitable. Relentlessly persistent and patient cyber criminals — aided by leading-edge machine learning and analytics — craft socially engineered phishing campaigns or compromise credentials to get into enterprise networks and hold them to ransom.