corporate networks

Network Security

Issued by: CIO Security

As organizations grow, functions that started as one person’s job get split across multiple organizational units and multiple executives, often without thoughtful planning. Specialization enables experts to dig deep into each job but creates several problems: A lack of a single accountable executive (or worse, having multiple executives, each of whom manages part of the…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

he threat intelligence landscape has vastly changed over the years. While the term was originally used to refer to malware Indicators of Compromise (IOC) – lists of known malware signatures and the servers those malware communicate with, a method to identify infected devices within corporate networks – as time went by vendors have broadly expanded…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Hackers Leverage AWS To Breach, Persist In Corporate Networks

A new body of evidence indicates threat actors are using increasingly advanced techniques to target cloud providers and leveraging cloud-specific traits to hide their activity as they breach and persist in target networks. Data comes from the Threat Stack security team, which spotted the pattern over multiple years of observing behavior on client networks. It…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

Microsoft Researchers Release Anti-Reconnaissance Tool

Microsoft researchers have released a new tool designed to help security teams protect corporate networks by making it more difficult for attackers to conduct reconnaissance. The tool, dubbed “NetCease,” was developed by Itai Grady and Tal Be’ery of the Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) research team. NetCease has been made available on Microsoft’s TechNet Gallery,…