A SOC Under Siege: Alert Overload and Cyber Skills Shortage One of the key issues in cybersecurity today is the skills shortage – there simply are not enough cybersecurity professionals to go around in the everyday battle against cybercriminals, nation-states and hacktivists. According to the … READ MORE

As we saw in ourprevious blogpost, creating a knowledge gap for your attackers allows you to divert them and slow them down in their quest for information. At the same time, knowing what attackers desire creates the opportunity for an active, intelligent defense to lure, detect, and defend. This … READ MORE

Capture the flag exercises show how quickly attackers can learn a new network environment to reduce their noise levels and evade detection. This puts pressure on detection defenses in the first few hours or days when attackers are likely to be noisier. This concept is known as the ‘knowledge ga … READ MORE

Introduction: As detection mechanisms grow more sophisticated, malware developers try new methods to evade. Recently, there has been a growing trend to exfiltrate data and issue commands to malware via the DNS protocol. DNS Command & Control and DNS exfiltration can be successful because DNS is … READ MORE

Security spending is on the rise and prioritized over other IT investments for 2018. A recent Tech Pro Research survey revealed 53 percent of respondents said security will be a top priority in their overall 2018 budget, which 39 percent expect to increase from 1-10 percent over 2017.1 These inc … READ MORE

By now we are all aware of the commotion that ensued behind the scenes of the opening ceremonies of the Pyeongchang Olympics. Organizers have indeed confirmed an attack on non-critical computer systems. For approximately 12 hours on Friday the Olympic networks were down due to the attacks. WiFi … READ MORE

Introduction: Recent research conducted by our threat research team has identified a new method of covert channel data exchange using a well-known and widely implemented public key certificates standard (X.509) utilized in both TLS and SSL cryptographic internet protocol implementations. While c … READ MORE

Intelligent deception technology exploits the need of an attacker to discover as much as they can about where they are in the organization’s network immediately post compromise. This is a process not a single event. We have covered active directory and credential breadcrumbs,and file and data … READ MORE

Cyber attacks are not single events, they’re processes. When attackers first access a network or endpoint, they don’t know where they are. So they carefully try to find out as much as possible about the organization. This is precisely the behavior that intelligent deception technology can exp … READ MORE