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More Than 90 Percent of Malware in Q2 Came Via Encrypted Traffic: WatchGuard

eSecurity Planet

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. A surprising 91.5

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IDS & IPS Remain Important Even as Other Tools Add IDPS Features

eSecurity Planet

This equipment usually cannot be protected by antivirus solutions or device-specific firewalls. These solutions can, like antivirus software, use signature-based technology to identify known malware attacks, but many new IDS and IPS also incorporate anomaly-based algorithms often boosted by artificial intelligence (AI).

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GUEST ESSAY: Here’s why managed security services — MSS and MSSP — are catching on

The Last Watchdog

Keeping up with new risks, resolving them as soon as they occur, and recovering from incidents identified too late may, as you can certainly imagine, take up valuable resources and cause businesses to lose time, money, and the trust of their clients/partners. The greater the reliance, the more likely such a breach will take place.

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European firm DSIRF behind the attacks with Subzero surveillance malware

Security Affairs

They publicly offer several services including “ an enhanced due diligence and risk analysis process through providing a deep understanding of individuals and entities” and “highly sophisticated Red Teams to challenge your company’s most critical assets.”. .” or later to detect the related indicators.

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Top Threat Intelligence Platforms for 2021

eSecurity Planet

What sets FireEye apart from the competition is how its platform tailors strategic intelligence to an organization’s corporate risk management and business goals by providing highly-contextual data so users can align security strategies to respond to the most likely threats taking aim at an organization. AT&T Cybersecurity.

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Top Cybersecurity Products for 2021

eSecurity Planet

We’ve narrowed this list down to four categories of products that are essential to modern cybersecurity: Endpoint detection and response (EDR) , next-generation firewalls (NGFW) , cloud access security brokers (CASB) and security information and event management (SIEM). Entry points are always at risk. Best EDR tools.

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What Is Managed Detection and Response? Guide to MDR

eSecurity Planet

And the cost of starting their own security operations center (SOC) is so daunting that the thought of outsourcing the function to a managed security services provider (MSSP) has become increasingly attractive. But the most important involve adding critical security analyst capabilities to your team.