Today's enterprise IT teams are well acquainted with the pressures of ensuring network security, while also managing the time it takes to do so. The recent experience of one multinational technology company perfectly illustrates how Networks Query Engine (NQE) can be used to quickly and effectively bolster network security. As with most companies, this company's IT team was asked on a regular basis to locate IP addresses in the network.
In our new threat briefing report, Forescout’s Vedere Labs describes how it analyzed files and tools used by an affiliate of the ALPHV ransomware group during an attack. ALPHV, also known as Black Cat, is a Ransomware-as-a-Service gang that was first discovered in November 2021.
Last June, Forward Networks announced several enhancements to the platform designed to help SecOps teams prove compliance, automate CVE (critical vulnerability exposure) responses, and remediate threats quickly. Today, we’re happy to share that we’ve continued to build out our security use cases by adding new functionality to our security posture security matrix (previously known as zone-to-zone security matrix) and delivering Layer 7 application connectivity analysis.
Today’s threat landscape is evolving rapidly. Attackers are constantly adjusting their tactics and finding new ways to infiltrate organizations with increasingly sophisticated attacks to steal valuable data. As such, businesses and IT professionals must remain up to date on the industry’s latest threat intelligence in order to better understand the current state of this cybersecurity landscape and know their enemies to shore up defenses.
Monitoring container traffic and extracting rich security-centric metadata provides SOC analysts an inviolable source of truth for threat detection and incident investigation. This data complements the deep visibility provided by container agents and broad visibility through monitoring audit logs.
This month, Microsoft announced two vulnerabilities in portmap, which is part of ONC RPC, on Windows systems. This blog will discuss Zeek detection packages for CVE-2022-24491 and CVE-2022-24497 developed by Corelight Labs.
As mentioned in SecurityScorecard’s (SSC) previous Zhadnost blog posts (part one and part two), the DDoS attacks against Ukrainian and Finnish websites do not appear to have a lasting impact, as the sites were back online within hours of the attack.
