Why right now is the best time to assess your cyber response to COVID-19
Why right now is the best time to assess your cyber response to COVID-19
The initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic put cybersecurity programs to the test. While organizations quickly rolled out business continuity plans to transition workers from the office to the home and to migrate business online to keep customers and supply chains moving, cybersecurity leaders have worked to help keep the business protected from an onslaught of cyber threats designed to…
New AlienVault and AT&T Cybersecurity Consulting Solution for Cyber Risk and Compliance Management
Let’s face it, managing cyber risk and compliance is hard. Many organizations struggle to gain the visibility needed to truly understand their overall cyber risks. They also struggle to maintain that visibility as they take on digital business transformation and new cloud computing initiatives. It’s no easy task for organizations to continually align their security priorities to changes…
Explain Cryptojacking to Me
Last year, I wrote that ransomware was the summer anthem of 2017. At the time, it seemed impossible that the onslaught of global ransomware attacks like WannaCry and NotPetya would ever wane. But, I should have known better. Every summertime anthem eventually gets overplayed. This year, cryptojacking took over the airwaves, fueled by volatile global cryptocurrency markets. In the first half…
AlienVault Product Roundup July / August 2018
It’s been a busy summer at AlienVault! Amid some major company announcements, we continue to evolve USM Anywhere and USM Central with new features and capabilities that help you to defend against the latest threats and to streamline your security operations. You can keep up with our regular product releases by reading the release notes in the AlienVault…
Extending Threat Detection to the Endpoint with New EDR Capabilities in USM Anywhere
Back in April, we began to invite USM Anywhere customers to try out our new endpoint agent, the AlienVault Agent, in an Early Access program. The overwhelming interest in the program alone was telling; over 37% of USM Anywhere customers (60% of our MSSP partners) raised their hands to participate. Our conversations with customers during the program were even more telling; Our…
Simplify Compliance Reporting with AlienVault USM Anywhere
USM Anywhere delivers a comprehensive library of predefined compliance report templates for PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001, so you can accelerate your security and compliance programs and be audit-ready faster. It also includes 50+ predefined event reports by data source and data source type, helping to make your daily monitoring and reporting activities more eficient. In addition to predefined…
AlienVault Monthly Product Roundup May 2018
We regularly introduce new features to USM Anywhere and USM Central to help your team to be more effective at detecting and responding to threats. You can keep up with our regular product releases by reading the release notes in the AlienVault Product Forum. Here are a few of the highlights from our May 2018 releases: New Alarm Management Capabilities in…
AlienVault Monthly Product Roundup April 2018
We are continuously making improvements and rolling out new features to USM Anywhere to help your team to be more effective at detecting and responding to threats. You can keep up with USM Anywhere releases by reading our release notes in the AlienVault Product Forum. Here is a roundup of the highlights from our April 2018 releases: Go Threat Hunting with…
New! Free Threat Hunting Service from AlienVault – OTX Endpoint Security™
70% of successful security breaches start on endpoint devices, according to IDC.1 Yet, security practitioners haven’t had an effective or low-cost way to hunt for threats against critical endpoints. Until now. Today, I am excited to announce a new free service for endpoint threat scanning—OTX Endpoint Security™. OTX Endpoint Security is a free threat-scanning service in Open Threat Exchange…
Forrester Study: Breaking Down the Total Economic Impact of AlienVault USM
There’s just something about InfoSec that attracts the skeptics, the leery, the Agent Scullys among us. Perhaps this natural tendency to distrust is what makes security analysts so keen at threat hunting, so perceptive to see a glimmer of anomalous activity in a stream of “normal.” It’s perhaps this same tendency to distrust that…
New AlienVault USM Anywhere™ Editions Expand Pricing and Deployment Flexibility for All
AlienVault was founded on the belief that every organization deserves a strong security posture, regardless of the size of their IT environment or the size of their IT security budget. We pioneered Unified Security Management® (USM) so that resource-limited IT security teams could meet their security and compliance goals without the cost and complexity of managing multiple point security solutions.…
GlobeImposter Ransomware on the Rise
Ah, the summer anthem. That quintessential song that defines summertime as much as hot nights, barbeques, and beach vacations. Whether it’s the Beach Boys’ “I Get Around” (1964), Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” (1984), or Pearl Jam’s “Last Kiss” (1999), the summer anthem is transcendent, yet perfectly emblematic of its…
