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In this Help Net Security podcast, Chris Morales, Head of Security Analytics at Vectra, talks about machine learning fundamentals, and illustrates what cybersecurity professionals should know. Here’s a transcript of the podcast for your convenience. Hi… Continue reading Machine learning fundamentals: What cybersecurity professionals need to know
Many global financial services organizations are targeted by sophisticated cyberattackers in an attempt to steal critical data and personally-identifiable information (PII), according to Vectra. Financial industry attacker behaviors per 10,000 devices … Continue reading Could an Equifax-sized data breach happen again?
Prioritizing open source security alerts WhiteSource launched its next-generation Software Composition Analysis solutions – Effective Usage Analysis. The technology provides details beyond simply which components are present in the application, d… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: May 25, 2018
The higher education sector exhibited a startling increase in potentially damaging cryptocurrency mining behaviors, according to Vectra. The Attacker Behavior Industry Report reveals cyberattack detections and trends from a sample of 246 opt-in enterpr… Continue reading Crypto mining runs rampant in higher education: Is it students?
Vectra introduces attack campaign detection and prediction Vectra is advancing automated threat hunting with the introduction of Attack Campaigns. The Vectra Cognito platform now further automates threat hunting by exposing the relationships between threat detections on separate workloads and devices to understand the activity and scope of attack campaigns. Open source secrets management solution for DevOps With increased DevOps adoption comes an expanding attack surface with an exponential set of secrets that insiders and malicious … More → Continue reading New infosec products of the week: September 8, 2017
Britain’s top firms and charities urgently need to do more to protect themselves from online threats, according to new government research and a ‘cyber health check’. One in ten FTSE 350 companies said they operate without a response plan for a cyber incident, and 31 percent of boards receive comprehensive cyber risk information. There has been progress in some areas when compared with last year’s health check, with more than half of company boards now … More → Continue reading Disturbing lack of cyber attack awareness among directors
Time is the most important factor in detecting network breaches and, consequently, in containing cyber incidents and mitigating the cost of a breach. “Security event investigations can last hours, and a full analysis of an advanced threat can take days, weeks or even months. Even large security operations center (SOC) teams with more than 10 skilled analysts find it difficult to detect, confirm, remediate, and verify security incidents in minutes and hours,” says Chris Morales, … More → Continue reading AI is key to speeding up threat detection and response
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2017, Mike Banic, Vice President, Marketing, and Chris Morales, Head of Security Analytics at Vectra Networks, talk about the use of artificial intelligence to perform non-stop, automated threat hunting with always-learning behavioral models to find hidden and unknown attackers before they do damage. Here’s a transcript of the podcast for your convenience. Hi, this is Mike Banic with Vectra Networks, and I’m here with Chris Morales, Head … More → Continue reading Automating the hunt for cyber attackers
Black Hat USA 2017 is underway at Las Vegas, and here are a few photos from the Business Hall and the Arsenal. Featured companies: Forcepoint, Qualys, LookingGlass, Vectra Networks, InfoArmor, Cisco Security. Continue reading Photo gallery: Black Hat USA 2017
Finance and technology are the sectors most resilient to cyber intrusions, new research from Vectra Networks has found. The company released the results of its Post-Intrusion Report, based on data from a sample set of nearly 200 of its enterprise customers. They looked at the prevalence of strategic phases of the attack lifecycle: command-and-control (C&C), reconnaissance, lateral movement, botnet, and exfiltration attacker behaviours across thirteen industries. Over 90 days (January-March 2017), the company monitored 2,145,708 … More → Continue reading Attack rates are increasing across the board