Emotet is an advanced Trojan malware that first appeared in 2014.The malware mostly spreads by spam and phishing emails via infected attachments and embedded malicious URLs. Everyone is susceptible to Emotet, from individuals to major enterprises and organizations around the world.   According to an alert from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the advanced […]

Cybersecurity costs keep going up as threats proliferate and companies spend more on endpoint detection and response (EDR) and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions. CISOs add new solutions in response to emerging threats, creating complex, layered defenses. But despite a huge investment of time and money, breaches keep happening. Last month, a threat […]

Cyber defenders for cities are stuck between a rock and a ticking time bomb. One city after another falls prey to a growing number of attackers. Those not yet struck await what seems inevitable. Let’s see what we can learn from baltimore’s recent attack:

But with AppGuard, you can patch at your own pace. Patch management is a growing problem for IT/Sec-Ops teams. A Ponemon survey report [PDF] describes the scale of the patch management challenge. Surveyed cybersecurity professionals reported that attack volumes were up 15 percent and attack severity had increased 24 percent. But in 57 percent of […]

So, the 2019 RSA Conference, which wrapped up on March 8, was an event to remember. As we predicted in a post before the event, many new entrants to the growing cybersecurity field participated this year, and we were excited to learn more about what partners and competitors are offering. The exhibition hall had more […]

This year’s RSA Conference in the U.S. takes place March 4 to 8 in San Francisco. The event will bring thousands of cybersecurity professionals together to talk security and share new ideas. So, which security-related issues will be top of mind at this year’s conference? Here are three items that you’re sure to hear about […]

Last month, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history finally came to an end. The five-week partial shutdown, caused by a standoff between Congress and the president over border wall funding, cost the U.S. economy $11 billion, according to an estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The CBO projects that all but $3 billion […]

Reports of covertly adding chips to motherboards for industrial espionage require CISO’s to ask their peers and teams ‘what are the Chinese actually doing to steal data from organizations like ours’ and ‘what should we be doing to counter their efforts’? Enterprises targeted by China can get the answers and insights they seek from the […]

5 Critical Areas All CISOs Should be Focused On – CISO Web Panel: 3 October 2018 Panelists Donald J. Welch, Penn State, CISO Anthony Cruz, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Cyber Thought Leader Moderator: Neal Conlon, AppGuard Inc, VP Business Development The CISO panel explored the challenges of 2018 and what remedies and priorities they consider […]

Google recently stated that none of its 80,000 employee accounts using their Titan Security Key has been compromised since deployment. This is because this hardware authentication device is a possession factor that cyber criminals cannot electronically steal as they do passwords. But, as great as this and like tools are, they are susceptible when the […]