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Know Your Adversary, Before They ATT&CK

The Cyber Kill Chain If you’re reading this blog, you likely know the basics of the cyber kill chain. You might even be able to name a few of the seven stages in the kill chain, which lays out the steps adversaries take to attack and exploit their victims. Where you...

NIST’s Expertise on APTs: Gaining Serious Insight – Acalvio

Cyber Deception

If there's any organization that knows about dealing with advanced persistent threats (APTs) it's NIST. The US government is constantly targeted by the most sophisticated adversaries, and the attacks are directed at both the government agencies themselves, and...

“Amazon Firestick” is to “VCR”, as “Deception” is to _________

Cyber Deception

Complete the Analogy: “Amazon Firestick” is to “VCR”, as “Deception” is to _________. Correct Answer: “Honeypot” Remember your SAT or ACT exams with the analogy questions? If so you probably got this one right. For those of us old enough to remember, Video...

The Deceptively Simple Shortcut to Visibility

Cyber Deception

If you’ve ever had a security vendor pitch their wiz-bang internal network threat prevention solution, you’ve probably thought at some point “You’re getting ahead of yourself. First we need to know what’s going on, then we can talk about active controls on the...

Using Deep Learning for Information Security – Part 2

Cyber Deception

Authors: Santosh Kosgi, Mohammad Waseem, Arunabha Choudhury, and Satnam Singh Deep Learning-based methods have been successfully applied to various computer vision and NLP based problems recently [1]. AI researchers have achieved statistically significant improvements...

Formjacking: Deception is your cure

Cyber Deception

Formjacking attacks embed JavaScript into ecommerce sites to siphon off credit card data.

Using Deception to effectively fight Ransomware

Cyber Deception

Deception could be a game changer in terms of detecting Ransomware.

Advancing State of Art in Cloud Malware Detection

Cyber Deception

Detecting attackers with kubernetes driven deception in cloud-native applications

Deceiving Attackers in a Kubernetes World

Cyber Deception

Deceiving Attackers in a Kubernetes World

Unified Security in Hybrid Clouds: The Role of Kubernetes & Microservices

Cyber Deception

Enterprise workloads are rapidly migrating from on-prem data centers or private clouds towards public clouds, run by players such as Amazon and Microsoft. While CIOs and IT leaders have been spending the past few years reeling in these individual public cloud islands,...