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March 11, 2020

Experts On Report: 60% Of Data Breaches Caused By Human Error
Organizations of all sized must recognize that compromise is no longer a matter of if, but when.
Success rates for compromising employees accounts are rising in large part to more effective social engineering efforts. Bad actors have greater access to personal information via social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and others. They are able to use this information to send targeted phishing attacks, tricking users into clicking on malicious links. Once the bad actor has a foothold and access to valid user credentials, they will stealthily move laterally in search .....Read More
Success rates for compromising employees accounts are rising in large part to more effective social engineering efforts. Bad actors have greater access to personal information via social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and others. They are able to use this information to send targeted phishing attacks, tricking users into clicking on malicious links. Once the bad actor has a foothold and access to valid user credentials, they will stealthily move laterally in search of high value assets on the network. Organizations of all sized must recognize that compromise is no longer a matter of if, but when. They must implement technologies like network traffic analysis (NTA) to monitor and protect their organization against this compromise. NTA scrutinizes every network conversation, applying advanced security algorithms that can identify this lateral movement and other anomalous behavior indicative of a breach.  Read Less
February 18, 2020

Expert Insight On Iranian Hackers Are Hacking VPN Servers To Plant Backdoors In Companies Across The World
At this point, everyone should constantly operate under the assumption that they are already compromised.
Although the recent uptick in global tensions has elevated the perception of risk for many organizations, many have not implemented proper solutions to monitor and visualize their network traffic. At this point, everyone should constantly operate under the assumption that they are already compromised. There is a never-ending stream of new vulnerabilities and every organization, every day, has vulnerable devices connected to the business. Network traffic analysis (NTA) is a must-have technology.....Read More
Although the recent uptick in global tensions has elevated the perception of risk for many organizations, many have not implemented proper solutions to monitor and visualize their network traffic. At this point, everyone should constantly operate under the assumption that they are already compromised. There is a never-ending stream of new vulnerabilities and every organization, every day, has vulnerable devices connected to the business. Network traffic analysis (NTA) is a must-have technology at this point, scrutinizing every conversation and running algorithms to uncover bad actors who have gained a foothold and operating under stealth. Once a hacker gains a foothold, they will look to escalate their privileges through lateral movement. Traditional security tools that sit at the perimeter, cannot see this lateral movement. NTA, on the other hand, is deployed within the network and is purpose-built to monitor all traffic (including east/west traffic) to identify, notify, and remediate the risk.  Read Less
February 04, 2020

On Cybercriminals Leveraging Smart Building Access Systems to Launch DDoS Attacks
When end devices (IoT or other) have an IP address and are attached to the corporate network.
When end devices (IoT or other) have an IP address and are attached to the corporate network, they introduce new threat surfaces. It is imperative that network and security teams know every device that is attached to the network, and monitor all traffic to and from them so those end devices can be provisioned, monitored, and secured properly. The only way to do this properly is to deploy and correlate network traffic analysis with end device visibility/asset management tools.
February 03, 2020

Experts Insight On Vulnerabilities Found In Microsoft Azure Services
This means that cloud customers do not have the same visibility and awareness that they have when workloads are deployed on-premise.
Although public cloud adoption rates are high, many organizations are still hesitant to move business-critical workloads to the cloud for fear of security compromise. A big part of the problem is that cloud providers obfuscate visibility to their customers relative to the underlying network traffic and infrastructure. This means that cloud customers do not have the same visibility and awareness that they have when workloads are deployed on-premise. This visibility gap is an inhibitor to broader .....Read More
Although public cloud adoption rates are high, many organizations are still hesitant to move business-critical workloads to the cloud for fear of security compromise. A big part of the problem is that cloud providers obfuscate visibility to their customers relative to the underlying network traffic and infrastructure. This means that cloud customers do not have the same visibility and awareness that they have when workloads are deployed on-premise. This visibility gap is an inhibitor to broader public cloud adoption. In response, cloud providers are beginning to offer paid products and services with SIEM-like functionality in an attempt to close that visibility gap. The challenge with this approach is that it creates yet another separate silo of data for end-users to manage. What is needed is for the cloud providers to export that data to tools like network traffic analysis so that customers can collect data centrally and correlate network visibility across their hybrid public and private cloud, and on-premise deployments.  Read Less
November 04, 2019

Expert Comments On QSnatch Malware Infecting QNAP NAS Devices
Any organization that has fallen victim to this infection must proactively begin to look for credential misuse.
Although the mechanisms by which QNAP spreads are unclear at this time, the fact that it steals usernames and passwords for all NAS users is very concerning. Any organization that has fallen victim to this infection must proactively begin to look for credential misuse. Bad actors who have stolen valid credentials will use them to try an gain access to other resources. As a best practice, network traffic analysis (NTA) should be implemented within the organization. NTA can baseline normal.....Read More
Although the mechanisms by which QNAP spreads are unclear at this time, the fact that it steals usernames and passwords for all NAS users is very concerning. Any organization that has fallen victim to this infection must proactively begin to look for credential misuse. Bad actors who have stolen valid credentials will use them to try an gain access to other resources. As a best practice, network traffic analysis (NTA) should be implemented within the organization. NTA can baseline normal credential use, then by applying security algorithms, can identify when bad actors are trying to move laterally and gain a foothold on other resources.  Read Less