Like any threat, malware evolves: Discover new trends
Cofense released the 2018 Cofense Malware Review, detailing the trends that defined malware attacks in 2017 and the emerging trends for network defenders to prioritize in 2018. While a couple of high profile breaches stole the spotlight in 2017, Cofense’s global security team uncovered a number of less visible evolutions that dramatically changed the threat…
Will fileless malware push the antivirus industry into oblivion?
The death of antivirus has been prophesied for years now, but the AV industry is still alive and kicking. SentinelOne, though, believes that in-memory resident attacks, i.e. fileless malware, just might be the thing that pushes it into oblivion. They base their conjecture on the results of the attack detections made through over a million…
Surveys: Security Pros Overwhelmed, Not Communicating, Threat Intel Data
Two new surveys released in the last week revealed troubling but telling trends in enterprise security: 70 percent of infosec professionals are overwhelmed by the volume and complexity of threat intelligence data, according to a report from security vendor Anomali and the Ponemon Institute; a separate survey from consultancy BDO USA found that only 27%…
From Chasing Alerts to Hunting Threats: What Makes an Effective SOC is Evolving
Whether you call it a SOC, a CSOC, a Cyber Defense Center, or something else, security operation centers have the same fundamental mission – to help organizations detect, analyze, respond to, report on, and prevent cyber security incidents. But what it takes to do that effectively has changed in this ever-evolving threat landscape, putting an…