User Behavior Analytics (UBA)

Another category? Why we need ITDR

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Cian Walker

Technologists are understandably suffering from category fatigue. This fatigue can be more pronounced within security than in any other sub-sector of IT. Do the use cases and risks of today warrant identity threat detection and response (ITDR)? To address this question, we work backwards from the vulnerabilities, threats, misconfigurations and attacks that IDTR specializes in […]

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Detecting Insider Threats: Leverage User Behavior Analytics

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Joy Wang

Employees often play an unwitting role in many security incidents, from accidental data breaches to intentional malicious attacks. Unfortunately, most organizations don’t have the right protocols and processes to identify potential risks posed by their workforce. Based on a survey conducted by SANS Institute, 35% of respondents said they lack visibility into insider threats, while 30% […]

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User Behavior Analytics: What It Is and How It Advances Digital Security

Posted on May 19, 2021 by David Bisson

Organizations are struggling to pinpoint threats that come from real user accounts. Take insider threats, as an example. In a 2020 report, 68% of IT and security experts felt their employers were somewhat or very at risk to insider attacks. Over half (53%) said it had become at least somewhat harder to detect an insider attack […]

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Zero Trust and Insider Threats: Was Brutus the Original Bad Actor?

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Milan Patel

Insider threats have been a problem for as long as there have been insiders. What’s changed over time? Well, for one, Brutus and his conspirators didn’t exactly leave a trail of logs and flows when they plotted against Julius Caesar and the Roman Republic. Fast forward 2,000 years, and there’s a good news/bad news update […]

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#TwitterHack: Power, Privilege and Pandemic

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Charles Henderson

On Wednesday, July 15, the Twitterverse was ablaze with what Twitter itself has described as a “coordinated social engineering attack” that was launched at around 4pm ET. The outcome of this breach was compromised Twitter accounts of many well-known people and organizations, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, former President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, […]

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Safeguarding Healthcare for the Future With Zero Trust Security

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Aaditya Bhagra

A Zero Trust security model can help healthcare organizations provision access in a more effective manner by focusing on data, workloads and identity.

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State of the Phish: IBM X-Force Reveals Current Phishing Attack Trends

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Camille Singleton

Phishing has long been an infection vector of choice for threat actors, and for good reason — it is relatively easy, inexpensive and consistently successful.

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How Deepfakes Will Make Us Question Everything in 2020

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Mark Stone

If anyone can claim that what they said was the result of a deepfake, how can we distinguish the truth anymore?

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How to Protect Your Organization From Evolving Phishing Attacks

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Michelle Greenlee

Protecting against evolving phishing attacks requires robust security awareness training for users and some help from technologies like artificial intelligence and ahead-of-threat detection.

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