Cyber detection, deception and delay

Active cyber defense offers deception, delay and persistent detection approaches to disrupt cyber attacks while also increasing the work factor for the attacker. By camouflaging defenses, deception can provide real-time insight to a threat actor’s TTPs while delaying an attacker’s ability to launch a successful attack. Adaptive and persistent detective capabilities can expose stealthy malware […]

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Living in a Hostile Cyber World “These are the times that try men’s souls…” – Thomas Paine You are the product manager for a new offering and you just clicked on a link that your boss sent you in an email. Your laptop seems to take longer than usual to reach the link but you […]

automated orchestration cybersecurity

Ramping up Your Security Operations Center You just found out that your network is permeated with malware, and has been for months. What do you do now? You can’t just bring the whole network down. And it has affected at least 5 different organizational units. Getting approvals to remediate those systems will take forever. How […]

caught cyber criminal

Choose Your Deception Active Cyber Defense can enable a large variety of specific deception tactics that can delay, confuse, scare away, or tie up an attacker depending on the circumstances and the methods. The following examples highlight this variety of tactics. Enabling specific abuse detection points in web application code using a library of vulnerability deception […]

cyber intelligence based defenses

Intel-Based Defenses and Cyber Intelligence In my last post I talked about the six capability areas that comprise active cyber defense.  In this post, I will begin to break down one of the key elements of an ACD capability – i.e., how cyber intelligence and intel-based defenses can enable an adaptive security posture. Take a […]

cyber security pros investigating

Sharing Cyber Intelligence Is No Longer An Option The rate of major data breaches across all industry verticals has reached alarming levels. The pace of these attacks is fueled by sophisticated underground marketplaces where exploits are traded and gains are monetized by cyber criminals. In addition, nation-states are making significant investments that are directed to the discovery […]

Educate Your Network to be Intelligent The goal of education is to gain knowledge to act more intelligently. Today’s modern network designs are focused on fatter and faster pipes at the core with intelligence being distributed and pushed to the edge.The edge network is also changing from wired to wireless as mobile devices take hold […]