Category: Active Defense

By now, you’ve probably been bulldozed with solution briefings, white papers, vendor pitches, and webinar invitations to discuss how this ransomware could have been stopped. We’ll do things a little differently. We’ll of course include our resources at the end of this post, because obviously we don’t want to be left behind. But we’ll first […]

We’re almost halfway through 2021, and there seems to be a ransomware resurgence. Or that’s what the headlines will have you believe. On the contrary, the opposite might be true. According to a Sophos survey, ransomware attacks seem to have gone down in 2021. Only 37% of the organizations surveyed have said they experienced a […]

COVID-19 has impacted security measures like monitoring, fewer organizations are detecting threats, phishing is the most common threat, and more. Includes active defense recommendations.

Insurance companies are under siege from cyberattacks. We take a look at some of the key pieces of an insurer’s infrastructure the adversaries target and how you can use deception to build active defenses.

Pentest reports tell a story. By asking why a pentester made certain choices, you can find opportunities to influence attacker behavior and actively defend your network.

For free, of course. At this point, I’m positive that you’ve heard of MITRE Shield. It’s a new active defense knowledge base released by MITRE – stuff they’ve been implementing for over a decade to engage adversaries and derail attacks. They’ve opened it up to everyone, and for the first time perhaps, the infosec community […]

Active defense provides defenders with a shared vocabulary and framework for actively dealing with threats instead of passively reacting to them.