Randori enters automated red-teaming scene with $9.75 million seed investment

“Nation-state” hacking is a phrase often used to talk about the the scariest cyberthreats out there, but cybersecurity startup Randori is using it to market its platform. The company announced on Thursday that it secured $9.75 million in seed funding for its automated red-teaming services. The Boston-based company says that its platform lets customers launch “nation-state caliber” attacks on their own systems in order to assess their risks and vulnerabilities. Randori stresses that its platform carries out real attacks, not ones in simulated environments, in combination with “continuous reconnaissance.” “Despite massive investments of time and capital, organizations often don’t know where they’re vulnerable until after they’re hit. Simulated environments can’t account for the changing tactics of today’s attacker,” said CEO Brian Hazzard in a press release. Hazzard is a former vice president and founding employee of Carbon Black, an endpoint security company that went public earlier this year. Randori company […]

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SCYTHE raises $3 million for attack simulation platform

SCYTHE, an Arlington, Va., based cybersecurity company, announced on Monday that it raised $3 million in seed funding for its automated red-teaming platform. The company flagship platform allows customers to simulate attack campaigns against their own networks in order to assess their defensive posture. SCYTHE says that its product uses a catalog of threats to “automatically deploy a combination of threat actor communications and end-point capabilities on the production environment.” Enterprises can customize their own adversarial campaigns then get reports on how well their systems stood up to the threat. Heading SCYTHE is Bryson Bort, a former U.S. Army officer who has worked in various cybersecurity strategy and research and development at multiple outfits. Bryson is the co-founder of ICS Village, a nonprofit that educates the public about risks to industrial control systems through live simulations. He also founded and is the chairman of GRIMM, a cybersecurity consultancy. “We’re constantly adding […]

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Bring Your Own Land (BYOL) – A Novel Red Teaming Technique

Introduction
One of most significant recent developments in sophisticated
offensive operations is the use of “Living off the Land” (LotL)
techniques by attackers. These techniques leverage legitimate tools
present on the system, such … Continue reading Bring Your Own Land (BYOL) – A Novel Red Teaming Technique

M-Trends 2018

What have incident responders observed and learned from cyber attacks
in 2017? Just as in prior years, we have continued to see the cyber
security threat landscape evolve. Over the past twelve months we have
observed a number of new trends and ch… Continue reading M-Trends 2018