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Best Advice for Digital Citizens – Stop. Think. Connect.™

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October is kind of a big deal here at RSA. It’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) and it gives us an opportunity to bring to the general public’s attention to a critical mission that we are focused on all year long – keeping businesses and individuals safe from cybercrime. It’s unfortunate that cybercrime is impactful…

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The Realm of Threat Intelligence – Attack Scenarios and Use Cases

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The three previous blogs in this series have covered Packet Analysis, Log Analysis and Threat Intelligence; this final article aims to bring all of this information into one cohesive solution for any SOC or Cyber Defence organisation. For further reading on this subject please see our presentation at last year’s RSA Conference in Abu Dhabi…

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POS Malware and Other Hacks Plague the Hospitality Industry

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The days of making “analog accommodations” at hotels — filling out a reservation slip, taking ownership of a door key and having only a telephone handset to communicate with the outside world— are long over. Today’s hotels are rife with digital trapdoors, metaphorical sinkholes that have the capacity to compromise your personal information and identity.…

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Cybersecurity takes center stage in US Presidential Debate

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In the first US Presidential debate, held on the evening of September 27, 2016, one of three topics on the agenda for the candidates was “Securing America.” Debate moderator Lester Holt lead off this portion of the program with the following: “We want to start with a 21st century war happening every day in this…

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The Realm of Threat Intelligence – Journey from the past into an Advanced SOC

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Using Intelligence to gather information on your adversary is not a new concept, Military and Government Agencies have been involved gathering information to use against their opponents since the days of Sun-Tzu and Chanakya. Cyber Intelligence has also been the domain for Government agencies like the UK’s GCHQ and the US’s NSA for many years;…

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The Era of Proportional Ransomware Has Arrived

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According to the FBI the incursion of ransomware has just gone from bad to worse. In a recent alert, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that recent ransomware variants have targeted and compromised vulnerable business servers to identify and target hosts, thereby multiplying the number of potential infected servers and devices on a network. More…

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Planning for a Breach Crisis

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If your company doesn’t have a crisis communication function, and doesn’t have a breach readiness plan, in the event of a public security incident it’s highly likely you will be the one everyone looks at when the CEO says ‘now what do we do?’ How do we manage the media? What do we tell customers, analysts, investors?…

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Faster Threat Detection through Shared Intelligence: RSA NetWitness Endpoint Now Supports RSA Live Connect

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In a previous life, I remember spending time at a company’s co-location facility where many organizations hosted their production and testing environments.  There was a shared workspace, and I remember having quite a few conversations with industry peers about various topics.  Not surprisingly, the one topic that came up more frequently than others was security…

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The Gap of Grief

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How bad is it? When a security incident occurs, how confident are you that you can explain the impact to the rest of the organization in language that they understand? Despite all the money we have invested in security, it’s still too difficult to put security details in business context fast enough. When you can’t,…

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