Network Lateral Movement

CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection Wins CRN’s 2023 Tech Innovator Award

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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
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CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD) today announced that CrowdStrike Falcon ® Identity Protection won the 2023 CRN Tech Innovator award as the best solution in the Identity and Access Management category.

Key Points: 
  • CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD) today announced that CrowdStrike Falcon ® Identity Protection won the 2023 CRN Tech Innovator award as the best solution in the Identity and Access Management category.
  • CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection stood out from the competition for bringing together world-class endpoint protection and real-time identity protection to effectively combat modern threats.
  • CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection helps customers stop identity-based attacks in real time with key features including:
    Unified Security Platform with a Single Agent: As part of the industry-leading CrowdStrike Falcon platform , CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection uses the same single, lightweight agent used for endpoint protection, XDR, cloud workload protection and more.
  • To see how customers have benefited from deploying CrowdStrike Falcon Identity, read the following case studies with Berkshire Bank and Pella Corporation .

Vehere Gets Acknowledged in 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Network Detection & Response

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Monday, February 20, 2023
Technology, Security, Other Technology, Professional Services, Software, Networks, Internet, Data Management, Other Professional Services, Network Lateral Movement, Publication, Anomaly, Nature, Attack, Organization, Research, Gartner, Intelligence, NDR, Risk management, Machine learning

NDR complements other technologies, which trigger alerts primarily based on rules and signatures, by building heuristic models of normal network behavior and spotting anomalies."

Key Points: 
  • NDR complements other technologies, which trigger alerts primarily based on rules and signatures, by building heuristic models of normal network behavior and spotting anomalies."
  • Further mentioning, "Security and risk management leaders should prioritize NDR as complementary to other detection tools, focusing on low false positive rates and detection of anomalies that other controls don't cover."
  • Vehere NDR empowers enterprises to identify attacks at the earliest possible stage and stop them before they become breaches.
  • Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Kaspersky uncovers attacks targeting Albanian government with ransomware and wipers signed with stolen certificates

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Thursday, December 22, 2022
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The investigation showed cybercriminals deployed ransomware and wiper malware to compromise their victims, using stolen legitimate certificates from the Nvidia and Kuwait Telecommunications company to sign their malware.

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  • The investigation showed cybercriminals deployed ransomware and wiper malware to compromise their victims, using stolen legitimate certificates from the Nvidia and Kuwait Telecommunications company to sign their malware.
  • In a new report , Kaspersky researchers have analyzed malware modifications used in the second wave of attacks.
  • In July 2022, a number of massive cyberattacks on Albanian government e-services were reported by the country’s media outlets .
  • In September, Kaspersky experts identified ransomware and wiper malware samples resembling ones from the first wave.

ExtraHop Recognized in the Gartner® Market Guide for Network Detection and Response for the Third Time

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Tuesday, December 20, 2022
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ExtraHop, the leader in cloud-native network intelligence, today announced that it has been named as a representative vendor in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for Network Detection and Response.

Key Points: 
  • ExtraHop, the leader in cloud-native network intelligence, today announced that it has been named as a representative vendor in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for Network Detection and Response.
  • Required Disclaimer: Gartner, Market Guide for Network Detection and Response, Jeremy D'Hoinne, Nat Smith, Thomas Lintemuth, 14 December 2022.
  • The Market Guide for Network Detection and Response was previously published as the Market Guide for Network Traffic Analysis in 2019.
  • ExtraHop has been recognized as a market leader in network detection and response by Gartner, Forbes, SC Media, and numerous others.

Kaspersky finds nine in ten organizations previously attacked by ransomware would pay ransom if targeted again

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Thursday, May 12, 2022
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Across organizations that have yet to be victimized, only 67% would be willing to pay, and they would be less inclined to do so immediately.

Key Points: 
  • Across organizations that have yet to be victimized, only 67% would be willing to pay, and they would be less inclined to do so immediately.
  • Ransomware remains a prominent threat, with nearly two-thirds (64%) of companies already having suffered an attack.
  • According to the report, if an organization has been the victim of ransomware in the past, they are increasingly likely to pay a ransom in the event of a new attack (88%).
  • Over 400 million users are protected by Kaspersky technologies and we help 240,000 corporate clients protect what matters most to them.

Sysdig Adds Cloud Security for Microsoft Azure Cloud

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Wednesday, January 5, 2022
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Sysdig, Inc. announced today cloud security for Microsoft Azure Cloud with configuration risk management and threat detection that is built on Sysdigs runtime security technology.

Key Points: 
  • Sysdig, Inc. announced today cloud security for Microsoft Azure Cloud with configuration risk management and threat detection that is built on Sysdigs runtime security technology.
  • The Sysdig platform brings new continuous cloud security and compliance controls for Microsoft Azure together with existing vulnerability management, compliance, and threat detection for containers and Kubernetes.
  • Sysdig already provides cloud security for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and with the addition of Azure, teams have a true multi-cloud solution.
  • Sysdig chose to build its cloud security capabilities on top of Falco, Sysdig open source, and Open Policy Agent (OPA).

Nearly half of security events handled by Kaspersky’s incident response team in 2021 were connected to ransomware

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021
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Woburn, MA, Dec. 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today Kaspersky revealed that nearly half of security incidents handled by its Global Emergency Response Team (GERT) from January to November 2021 were connected to ransomware, an increase of nearly 9% from 2020.

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  • Woburn, MA, Dec. 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today Kaspersky revealed that nearly half of security incidents handled by its Global Emergency Response Team (GERT) from January to November 2021 were connected to ransomware, an increase of nearly 9% from 2020.
  • Kasperskys Global Emergency Response Team is called in by companies after a security breach to limit the damage and prevent an attack from spreading.
  • This is known as incident response (IR) and is reserved for mid-sized to large organizations.
  • Together, attacks against those two industries accounted for nearly 50% of all ransomware-related IR requests in 2021.