detection and response

7 Cyber Attack Vectors & How to Protect Them Risk Management The quicker a cyberattack is identified, the less it costs. Jon Clay, VP of Threat Intelligence, reviews 7 key initial attack vendors and provides proactive security tips to help you reduce cyber risk across the attack surface. By: Jon Clay November 15, 2022 Read time:  ( words) Digital transformation and remote work have rapidly expanded the attack surface. As the collection of applications, websites,…

Not all threats originate at the endpoint. According to Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, web applications and email are the top two vectors for breaches. XDR enables you to detect compromised accounts sending internal phishing emails, whereas native email security tools typically only monitors for malicious emails being delivered externally. XDR will also sweep mailboxes for IoCs in real time. With this information, the SOC can investigate who else received the email as well…

An overview of how ngrok, a cloud tunnelling service, works. What’s at risk With access to a developer’s machine, cybercriminals can take advantage of local admin privileges or the shared work-in-progress to seed malware. They can also use hijacked credentials to get into the organization’s cloud dev environment or other systems, potentially accessing sensitive information or injecting vulnerabilities into application source code and pipelines. These kinds of breaches are hard to detect because the associated…