What Is APP Fraud, and 6 Steps to Prevent It

Imagine your finance team receives an urgent email that appears to be from a trusted supplier, notifying them of an unexpected change in bank account details for an upcoming payment. The email looks professional, is detailed, and contains all the expected business formalities. Without hesitation, the team processes the payment to the new account. Days later, the actual supplier contacts you about the overdue invoice.

Reducing false positives with automated SIEM investigations from Elastic and Tines

One of the biggest SIEM management problems SOC teams face is that they are often overwhelmed by false positives, leading to analyst fatigue and visibility gaps. In addition to that, one of the toughest challenges in security is detecting when SaaS access tokens are compromised without adding to the false positive problem. At Elastic, the InfoSec team tackles both of these issues by automating SIEM alert investigations with tools like Tines.

Top tips: Three telltale signs that you have been cryptojacked

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re looking at three signs that your device may be infected with crypto malware. Has your computer been acting strange lately? Has the performance tanked out of nowhere, and are you experiencing overheating issues even though you’re not running any particularly demanding tasks at the moment?
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EventSentry 5.1.1.104: Security, Security, Security!

Everybody wants to have a more secure network – and everybody has various tools at their disposal to at least improve the security of their network. But which tool is the best for the job, and where do you start? The answer to this question is somewhat easier (and more structured) for organizations that have to adhere to compliance frameworks (ISO, CMMC, PCI, SOC, …), but a little harder for business that have no such requirements.

Over a third of fraud attempts targeting financial institutions now use AI

One in fifteen fraud attempts now use deepfakes to attack not just B2C firms but increasingly also B2B ones. Fraud prevention decision-makers agree that AI will drive almost all identity fraud in the future, and more people will fall victim than ever before.

Centripetal Expands Portfolio with CleanINTERNET® DNS, Powered by The Most Extensive Collection of Threat Intelligence in the Industry

Centripetal announceS that it is expanding its offering to include CleanINTERNET® DNS to preemptively safeguard businesses against web-based cyber threats. Unlike other DNS filtering products that rely solely on blocklists, CleanINTERNET® DNS is the first-ever solution to leverage advanced threat intelligence from multiple providers to proactively prevent users from accessing malicious websites and harmful content.

CrowdStrike and Cloudflare announce expanded strategic partnership to secure networks and power the AI-native SOC

New alliance combines best-of-breed platforms, accelerating partners' ability to drive vendor consolidation by securing the network and stopping breaches across device endpoints, cloud, identity, data, and applications.

Cloudflare acquires BastionZero to extend Zero Trust access to IT infrastructure

We’re excited to announce that BastionZero, a Zero Trust infrastructure access platform, has joined Cloudflare. This acquisition extends our Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) flows with native access management for infrastructure like servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases.

Adding Content Sources to Govern

Take advantage of the security and governance features available to you by adding a content source now. From the menu, select Secure & Govern, then Settings, and click Add Cloud Source. Choose the cloud content source you’d like to add and follow the instructions. For additional resources, check out our detailed guides on the Helpdesk. Once a content source is added, Egnyte will begin scanning the repository and alerting you on high severity issues, so you can detect and stop ransomware attacks and receive alerts on anomalous user behavior to prevent data theft.