This document provides an overview and buyer's guide for next generation endpoint protection (NGEP). It discusses the limitations of traditional antivirus software and the evolving threat landscape. A new behavior-based approach using NGEP is presented as a solution. Key criteria for evaluating NGEP vendors are outlined, including the critical capabilities an effective solution should provide. SentinelOne is presented as an NGEP option, highlighting its behavior monitoring approach and ability to detect, prevent, and remediate both known and unknown threats.
This year WhiteHat SecurityTM celebrates its fteenth anniversary, and the eleventh year that we have produced the Web Applications Security Statistics Report. The stats shared in this report are based on the aggregation of all the scanning and remediation data obtained from applications that used the WhiteHat SentinelTM service for application security testing in 2015. As an early pioneer in the Application Security Market, WhiteHat has a large and unique collection of data to work with.
In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long; and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent. Only then will application security progress be made.
Web security is a moving target and enterprises need timely information about the latest attack trends, how they can best defend their websites, and visibility into their vulnerability lifecycle. Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the knowledge and solutions that organizations need to protect their brands, attain PCI compliance and avert costly breaches.
The WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address to safely conduct business online. WhiteHat has been publishing the report, which highlights the top ten vulnerabilities, tracks vertical market trends and identifies new attack techniques, since 2006.
The WhiteHat Security report presents a statistical picture of current website vulnerabilities, accompanied by WhiteHat expert analysis and recommendations. WhiteHat’s report is the only one in the industry to focus solely on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code unique to an organization,
WhiteHat Security, the Web security company, today released the twelfth installment of the WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report. The report reviewed serious vulnerabilities* in websites during the 2011 calendar year, examining the severity and duration of the most critical vulnerabilities from 7,000 websites across major vertical markets. Among the findings in the report, WhiteHat research suggests that the average number of serious vulnerabilities found per website per year in 2011 was 79, a substantial reduction from 230 in 2010 and down from 1,111 in 2007. Despite the significant improvement in the state of website security, organizational challenges in creating security programs that balance breadth of coverage and depth of testing leave large-scale attack surfaces or small, but very high-risk vulnerabilities open to attackers.
The report examined data from more than 7,000 websites across over 500 organizations that are continually assessed for vulnerabilities by WhiteHat Security’s family of Sentinel Services. This process provides a real-world look at website security across a range of vertical markets, including findings from the energy and non-profit verticals for the first time this year. The metrics provided serve as a foundation for improving enterprise application security online.
WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new Web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must receive timely information about how they can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into the performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining these insights is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code that is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the most well-known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and recommendations.
Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the depth of knowledge that organizations require to protect their brands, attain compliance, and avert costly breaches.
This year WhiteHat SecurityTM celebrates its fteenth anniversary, and the eleventh year that we have produced the Web Applications Security Statistics Report. The stats shared in this report are based on the aggregation of all the scanning and remediation data obtained from applications that used the WhiteHat SentinelTM service for application security testing in 2015. As an early pioneer in the Application Security Market, WhiteHat has a large and unique collection of data to work with.
In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long; and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent. Only then will application security progress be made.
Web security is a moving target and enterprises need timely information about the latest attack trends, how they can best defend their websites, and visibility into their vulnerability lifecycle. Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the knowledge and solutions that organizations need to protect their brands, attain PCI compliance and avert costly breaches.
The WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address to safely conduct business online. WhiteHat has been publishing the report, which highlights the top ten vulnerabilities, tracks vertical market trends and identifies new attack techniques, since 2006.
The WhiteHat Security report presents a statistical picture of current website vulnerabilities, accompanied by WhiteHat expert analysis and recommendations. WhiteHat’s report is the only one in the industry to focus solely on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code unique to an organization,
WhiteHat Security, the Web security company, today released the twelfth installment of the WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report. The report reviewed serious vulnerabilities* in websites during the 2011 calendar year, examining the severity and duration of the most critical vulnerabilities from 7,000 websites across major vertical markets. Among the findings in the report, WhiteHat research suggests that the average number of serious vulnerabilities found per website per year in 2011 was 79, a substantial reduction from 230 in 2010 and down from 1,111 in 2007. Despite the significant improvement in the state of website security, organizational challenges in creating security programs that balance breadth of coverage and depth of testing leave large-scale attack surfaces or small, but very high-risk vulnerabilities open to attackers.
The report examined data from more than 7,000 websites across over 500 organizations that are continually assessed for vulnerabilities by WhiteHat Security’s family of Sentinel Services. This process provides a real-world look at website security across a range of vertical markets, including findings from the energy and non-profit verticals for the first time this year. The metrics provided serve as a foundation for improving enterprise application security online.
WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new Web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must receive timely information about how they can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into the performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining these insights is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code that is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the most well-known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and recommendations.
Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the depth of knowledge that organizations require to protect their brands, attain compliance, and avert costly breaches.
Continuous Monitoring for Web Application SecurityCenzic
In a world with constantly changing and increasingly complex attacks on web applications, security practices are evolving to stay ahead of the threats. Dave Shackleford, IANS Research application security faculty member, and Bala Venkat, Cenzic CMO, explain how government agencies can benefit from continuous security monitoring.
These are the slides from "Continuous Monitoring for Web App Security," a Cenzic and IANS webinar that originally aired on 10 September 2013. The video recording is available at info.cenzic.com (free, registration required).
In the webinar, Dave and Bala discuss the types of attacks currently seen in the wild, what attackers are focused on, and how they are compromising web applications, systems and data. We'll explore the most pressing compliance and regulatory challenges for government agencies and commercial businesses. Finally, we'll show how continuous monitoring tactics and tools can improve your security posture.
Essentials of Web Application Security: what it is, why it matters and how to...Cenzic
Join Cenzic’s Chris Harget for an overview of the essentials of Web Application Security, including the risks, practices and tools that improve security at every stage of the application lifecycle.
With malware attacks growing more sophisticated, swift, and dangerous by the day — and billions of dollars spent to combat them — surprisingly few organizations have a grip on the problem. Only 20 percent of security professionals surveyed by Information Security Media Group (ISMG) rated their incident response program “very effective.” Nearly two-thirds struggle to detect APTs, limiting their ability to defend today’s most pernicious threats. In addition, more than 60 percent struggle with the speed of detection, and more than 40 percent struggle with the accuracy of detection. Those shortcomings give attackers more time to steal data and embed their malware deeper into targeted systems. For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html.
Mobile Security: Apps are our digital lives.Veracode
Every app that resides on our devices contains information on some aspect of our lives. What games we play, who we talk to, where we work, what utilities make our lives easier are all captured by our apps on our mobile devices. Anyone armed with this information can mimic our digital lives to friends, family, colleagues and even corporate systems. Who we are and what we know is valuable information – and not just for marketing folks like me.
<a>Webinar: What Are Employees’ Mobile Apps Doing Behind Your Back?</a>
Protecting Enterprise - An examination of bugs, major vulnerabilities and exp...ESET Middle East
This white paper focuses on the dramatic growth in the number and severity of software vulnerabilities, and discusses how multilayered endpoint security is needed to mitigate the threats they pose.
State of Web Application Security by Ponemon InstituteJeremiah Grossman
Ponemon Institute conducted this study to better understand the risk of insecure websites and how organizations’ are addressing internal and external threats.1 Sponsored by Imperva and WhiteHat Security, the study reveals that despite having mission-critical applications accessible via their websites, many organizations are failing to provide sufficient resources to secure and protect Web applications important to their operations. This is particularly alarming given that the Web application layer is the number one attack target of hackers.2
We surveyed 638 IT and IT security practitioners with approximately 13 years IT experience in large US-based organizations with an average headcount of about 10,000. They most often are in network, data and application security, including quality assurance for development and testing. More than half are involved in setting priorities, managing budgets and selecting vendors and contractors.
While participants in this study consider the biggest threat to their websites is theft of data, they do not believe that their organizations are viewing Web security as a strategic initiative. They also believe their organizations are not allocating sufficient resources to protecting critical Web applications. Further, the IT practitioners surveyed are divided on whether the Web application security program is threat-based (41 percent) or compliance-based (40 percent).
This volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report focuses on the first and second quarters of 2016, with trend data for the last several quarters presented on a quarterly basis. Because vulnerability disclosures can be highly inconsistent from quarter to quarter and often occur disproportionately at certain times of the year, statistics about vulnerability disclosures are presented on a half-yearly basis
Adapted from an ESG report - Seeing Is Securing - Protecting Against Advanced...Proofpoint
Business Has Changed. The Threat Landscape Has Changed. Are You Prepared?
Today’s workers have gone beyond the network, using multiple devices to conduct business, anywhere, any time. The move has resulted in greater productivity and collaboration—and a greater risk of attack by cyber criminals. How can you protect your business today?
Top 10 Ways To Win Budget For Application Security - Cenzic.2013.05.22Cenzic
This slide deck denotes practical and insightful techniques for finding budget for Application Security solutions. It includes ideas for where to look, who to ask, how to speak their language, and provides proof points to make your case.
M-Trends® 2013: Attack the Security GapFireEye, Inc.
Mandiant’s annual threat report reveals evolving trends, case studies and best practices gained from Mandiant observations to targeted attacks in the last year. The report, compiled from hundreds of Mandiant advanced threat investigations, also includes approaches that organizations can take to improve the way they detect, respond to, and contain complex breaches. For the latest M-Trends report, https://www.fireeye.com/mtrends.
118 Hacker-Powered Facts From The 2018 Hacker-Powered Security ReportHackerOne
Another year, another Hacker-Powered Security Report! We pulled out 100 of the report’s top facts—and then added 18 more, since it’s 2018. See below for a better understanding of how hacker-powered security is disrupting (in a good way) how organizations approach security. More security teams are adding VDPs, more are supplementing their skills and bandwidth with hackers, and more are augmenting their standard pen tests with hacker challenges.
In 2018, the HackerOne community and those using our platform have combined to crush every metric that we track. Organizations awarded more than $11 million in bounties. Hackers submitted more than 78,000 reports. Bounties were awarded to hackers in over 100 countries.
Unfortunately, the only metric that hasn’t changed much is the percentage of Forbes Global 2000 companies without vulnerability disclosure policies.
Read on for all of the facts!
SentinelOne was founded in 2013 by an elite group of cybersecurity and defense experts who share a strong passion for disruption, and a clear vision for a path forward in a post-antivirus era. Building on their experiences learned at Check Point Software Technologies, IBM, Intel Security, Palo Alto Networks, and White Hat Security, the team is committed to the mission of defeating advanced cyber threats and instilling confidence in our digital way of life.
Find out more at https://sentinelone.com
With that in mind, here are 10 best DevSecOps tools for 2023 so you can get started on the right foot with the latest and greatest techniques. https://bit.ly/3Fd295g
Continuous Monitoring for Web Application SecurityCenzic
In a world with constantly changing and increasingly complex attacks on web applications, security practices are evolving to stay ahead of the threats. Dave Shackleford, IANS Research application security faculty member, and Bala Venkat, Cenzic CMO, explain how government agencies can benefit from continuous security monitoring.
These are the slides from "Continuous Monitoring for Web App Security," a Cenzic and IANS webinar that originally aired on 10 September 2013. The video recording is available at info.cenzic.com (free, registration required).
In the webinar, Dave and Bala discuss the types of attacks currently seen in the wild, what attackers are focused on, and how they are compromising web applications, systems and data. We'll explore the most pressing compliance and regulatory challenges for government agencies and commercial businesses. Finally, we'll show how continuous monitoring tactics and tools can improve your security posture.
Essentials of Web Application Security: what it is, why it matters and how to...Cenzic
Join Cenzic’s Chris Harget for an overview of the essentials of Web Application Security, including the risks, practices and tools that improve security at every stage of the application lifecycle.
With malware attacks growing more sophisticated, swift, and dangerous by the day — and billions of dollars spent to combat them — surprisingly few organizations have a grip on the problem. Only 20 percent of security professionals surveyed by Information Security Media Group (ISMG) rated their incident response program “very effective.” Nearly two-thirds struggle to detect APTs, limiting their ability to defend today’s most pernicious threats. In addition, more than 60 percent struggle with the speed of detection, and more than 40 percent struggle with the accuracy of detection. Those shortcomings give attackers more time to steal data and embed their malware deeper into targeted systems. For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html.
Mobile Security: Apps are our digital lives.Veracode
Every app that resides on our devices contains information on some aspect of our lives. What games we play, who we talk to, where we work, what utilities make our lives easier are all captured by our apps on our mobile devices. Anyone armed with this information can mimic our digital lives to friends, family, colleagues and even corporate systems. Who we are and what we know is valuable information – and not just for marketing folks like me.
<a>Webinar: What Are Employees’ Mobile Apps Doing Behind Your Back?</a>
Protecting Enterprise - An examination of bugs, major vulnerabilities and exp...ESET Middle East
This white paper focuses on the dramatic growth in the number and severity of software vulnerabilities, and discusses how multilayered endpoint security is needed to mitigate the threats they pose.
State of Web Application Security by Ponemon InstituteJeremiah Grossman
Ponemon Institute conducted this study to better understand the risk of insecure websites and how organizations’ are addressing internal and external threats.1 Sponsored by Imperva and WhiteHat Security, the study reveals that despite having mission-critical applications accessible via their websites, many organizations are failing to provide sufficient resources to secure and protect Web applications important to their operations. This is particularly alarming given that the Web application layer is the number one attack target of hackers.2
We surveyed 638 IT and IT security practitioners with approximately 13 years IT experience in large US-based organizations with an average headcount of about 10,000. They most often are in network, data and application security, including quality assurance for development and testing. More than half are involved in setting priorities, managing budgets and selecting vendors and contractors.
While participants in this study consider the biggest threat to their websites is theft of data, they do not believe that their organizations are viewing Web security as a strategic initiative. They also believe their organizations are not allocating sufficient resources to protecting critical Web applications. Further, the IT practitioners surveyed are divided on whether the Web application security program is threat-based (41 percent) or compliance-based (40 percent).
This volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report focuses on the first and second quarters of 2016, with trend data for the last several quarters presented on a quarterly basis. Because vulnerability disclosures can be highly inconsistent from quarter to quarter and often occur disproportionately at certain times of the year, statistics about vulnerability disclosures are presented on a half-yearly basis
Adapted from an ESG report - Seeing Is Securing - Protecting Against Advanced...Proofpoint
Business Has Changed. The Threat Landscape Has Changed. Are You Prepared?
Today’s workers have gone beyond the network, using multiple devices to conduct business, anywhere, any time. The move has resulted in greater productivity and collaboration—and a greater risk of attack by cyber criminals. How can you protect your business today?
Top 10 Ways To Win Budget For Application Security - Cenzic.2013.05.22Cenzic
This slide deck denotes practical and insightful techniques for finding budget for Application Security solutions. It includes ideas for where to look, who to ask, how to speak their language, and provides proof points to make your case.
M-Trends® 2013: Attack the Security GapFireEye, Inc.
Mandiant’s annual threat report reveals evolving trends, case studies and best practices gained from Mandiant observations to targeted attacks in the last year. The report, compiled from hundreds of Mandiant advanced threat investigations, also includes approaches that organizations can take to improve the way they detect, respond to, and contain complex breaches. For the latest M-Trends report, https://www.fireeye.com/mtrends.
118 Hacker-Powered Facts From The 2018 Hacker-Powered Security ReportHackerOne
Another year, another Hacker-Powered Security Report! We pulled out 100 of the report’s top facts—and then added 18 more, since it’s 2018. See below for a better understanding of how hacker-powered security is disrupting (in a good way) how organizations approach security. More security teams are adding VDPs, more are supplementing their skills and bandwidth with hackers, and more are augmenting their standard pen tests with hacker challenges.
In 2018, the HackerOne community and those using our platform have combined to crush every metric that we track. Organizations awarded more than $11 million in bounties. Hackers submitted more than 78,000 reports. Bounties were awarded to hackers in over 100 countries.
Unfortunately, the only metric that hasn’t changed much is the percentage of Forbes Global 2000 companies without vulnerability disclosure policies.
Read on for all of the facts!
SentinelOne was founded in 2013 by an elite group of cybersecurity and defense experts who share a strong passion for disruption, and a clear vision for a path forward in a post-antivirus era. Building on their experiences learned at Check Point Software Technologies, IBM, Intel Security, Palo Alto Networks, and White Hat Security, the team is committed to the mission of defeating advanced cyber threats and instilling confidence in our digital way of life.
Find out more at https://sentinelone.com
With that in mind, here are 10 best DevSecOps tools for 2023 so you can get started on the right foot with the latest and greatest techniques. https://bit.ly/3Fd295g
10 critical elements of next generation of endpoint layered securityJose Lopez
Cyber threats exploit vulnerabilities at all levels of the network,
from the endpoint to the network stack to runtime environments.
Protecting one layer while ignoring others is like locking your car,
but leaving the windows open with the ignition key on the driver’s
seat. Effective IT security requires a layered approach that addresses known, previously unseen and advanced threats. MSPs are in the right position to help their clients craft a strategy with adequate protection measures and tools in place. Here are 10 critical elements that MSPs should include in layered security for clients.
Disrupting the Malware Kill Chain - What's New from Palo Alto Networks.Scalar Decisions
Simon Wong and Chris Cram, Scalar security experts, discuss how Palo Alto Networks technology disrupts the entire malware kill chain. Attendees will also gain insight on flexible deployment options to better serve their mobile users, and how to get the most out of their Palo Alto Networks deployment.
The project entitled with “Network Security System” is related to hacking attacks in computer systems over internet. In today’s world many of the computer systems and servers are not secure because of increasing the hacking attacks or hackers with growing information, so information security specialist’s requirement has gone high.
SecPod Saner is a light-weight, enterprise-grade vulnerability and patch management solution that proactively assesses and secures endpoint systems. It identifies security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and remediates those to ensure systems remain secure. It helps organizations bring endpoint systems to a compliance baseline and to ensure they stay compliant.
SecPod Saner is complemented by Viser, real time monitoring and management software, that helps organizations secure all their endpoints from a single console.
How to Build and Validate Ransomware Attack Detections (Secure360)Scott Sutherland
Ransomware is a strategy for adversaries to make money – a strategy that’s proven successful. During this presentation, we will cover how ransomware works, ransomware trends to watch, best practices for prevention, and more. At the core of the discussion, Scott will explain how to build detections for common tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by ransomware families and how to validate they work, ongoing, as part of the larger security program. Participants will leave this webinar with actionable advice to ensure their organization is more resilient to ever-evolving ransomware attacks.
Advanced Threats in the Enterprise: Finding an Evil in the HaystackEMC
This white paper describes the current advanced threat landscape, shortcomings of anti-virus, and how RSA ECAT fills the gap and helps organizations detect advanced malware.
Everything you really need to know about IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems) Combining with HoneyPots. Deployment and usage techniques used in the past and today. How to setup and deploy onto any network including the cloud. Reasons why this should be used in all networks. How to bring BIG DATA down to Small Data that is easy to understand and monitor.
It’s all over the news that data breaches occur daily! I asked WHY these hackers can download terabytes of data in timespans of months without being noticed. What are these companies paying their SOC team millions of dollars for? How come all the money is going to devices to prevent breaches and little to none in detecting when they occur? Don’t people know there are only two types of companies “those that been hacked, and those that don’t know they been hacked”. What can I do to detect a breach within seconds on any network scale? I think I figured it out. In my talk you’ll learn how you and your clients can benefit by applying my exclusive techniques, which I’ve successfully deployed. So the next time you get hacked the hacker would not be able to steal all those credit cards and photos of that Halloween party.
Security O365 Using AI-based Advanced Threat ProtectionBitglass
Office 365 has garnered widespread adoption from enterprises due to its advantages such as ease of deployment, lower TCO, and high scalability. Additionally, it enables end-users to work and collaborate from anywhere and on any device. Although Office 365 enables IT to shift the burden for app and infrastructure to the cloud vendor, data security remains the responsibility of the enterprise. Given the limitations of native malware protection on Office 365, should the enterprise rely on Office 365 to protect their data from malware and ransomware?
Join Bitglass and Cylance for a discussion on malware protection solutions for Office 365. We will cover the limitations of native Office 365 malware protection as well as the benefits of AI and machine learning based approaches. We will wrap up the session by discussing how CASBs, with Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) capabilities, are uniquely positioned to protect cloud apps and end-points from malware attacks and proliferation.
Many Products, No Security
So many products: Organizations invest in multiple products, many with overlapping
capabilities. And investments are huge when considering the cost of products,maintenance, professional services, training and vendor management.
There is a serious misalignment of interests between Application Security vulnerability assessment vendors and their customers. Vendors are incentivized to report everything they possible can, even issues that rarely matter. On the other hand, customers just want the vulnerability reports that are likely to get them hacked. Every finding beyond that is a waste of time, money, and energy, which is precisely what’s happening every day.
How to Determine Your Attack Surface in the Healthcare SectorJeremiah Grossman
Do you know what an asset inventory is, why it's important, and how it can protect you from cybersecurity vulnerabilities?
In this webinar, you can expect to learn:
- How to prepare yourself and your staff against cybersecurity threats
- What an asset inventory is and why it's the next big thing in information security
- How to identify all your company's Internet-connected assets and which need to be defended
- Why keeping an up-to-date asset inventory is important
- How to obtain your own attack surface map
Exploring the Psychological Mechanisms used in Ransomware Splash ScreensJeremiah Grossman
The present study examined a selection of 76 ransomware splash screens collected from a variety of sources. These splash screens were analysed according to surface information, including aspects of visual appearance, the use of language, cultural icons, payment and payment types. The results from the current study showed that, whilst there was a wide variation in the construction of ransomware splash screens, there was a good degree of commonality, particularly in terms of the structure and use of key aspects of social engineering used to elicit payment from the victims. There was the emergence of a sub-set of ransomware that, in the context of this report, was termed ‘Cuckoo’ ransomware. This type of attack often purported to be from an official source requesting payment for alleged transgressions.
What the Kidnapping & Ransom Economy Teaches Us About RansomwareJeremiah Grossman
Ransomware is center stage, as campaigns are practically guaranteed financial gain. Cyber-criminals profit hundreds of millions of dollars by selling our data back to us. If you look closely, the ransomware economic dynamics closely follow the real-world kidnapping and ransom industry. We’ll explore the eerie similarities, where ransomware is headed, and strategies we can bring to the fight.
What the Kidnapping & Ransom Economy Teaches Us About RansomwareJeremiah Grossman
Ransomware is center stage, as campaigns are practically guaranteed financial gain. Cyber-criminals profit hundreds of millions of dollars by selling our data back to us. If you look closely, the ransomware economic dynamics closely follow the real-world kidnapping and ransom industry. We’ll explore the eerie similarities, where ransomware is headed, and strategies we can bring to the fight.
Ransomware is Here: Fundamentals Everyone Needs to KnowJeremiah Grossman
If you’re an IT professional, you probably know at least the basics of ransomware. Instead of using malware or an exploit to exfiltrate PII from an enterprise, bad actors instead find valuable data and encrypt it. Unless you happen to have an NSA-caliber data center at your disposal to break the encryption, you must pay your attacker in cold, hard bitcoins—or else wave goodbye to your PII. Those assumptions aren’t wrong, but they also don’t tell the whole picture.
During this event we’ll discuss topics such as:
Why Ransomware is Exploding
The growth of ransomware, as opposed to garden-variety malware, is enormous. Hackers have found that they can directly monetize the data they encrypt, which eliminates the time-consuming process of selling stolen data on the Darknet. In addition, the use of ransomware requires little in the way of technical skill—because attackers don’t need to get root on a victim’s machine.
Who the Real Targets Are
Two years ago, the most newsworthy victims of ransomware were various police departments. This year, everyone is buzzing about hospitals. Is this a deliberate pattern? Probably not. Enterprises are so ill-prepared for ransomware that attackers have a green field to wreak havoc. Until the industry shapes up, bad actors will target ransomware indiscriminately.
Where Ransomware Stumbles
Although ransomware is nearly impossible to dislodge when employed correctly, you may be surprised to find that not all bad actors have the skill to do it. Even if ransomware targets your network, you may learn that your attackers have used extremely weak encryption—or that they’ve encrypted files that are entirely non-critical.
As far as ransomware is concerned, forewarned is forearmed. Once you know how attackers deliver ransomware, who they’re likely to attack, and the weaknesses in the ransomware deployment model, you’ll be able to understand how to protect your enterprise.
Where Flow Charts Don’t Go -- Website Security Statistics Report (2015)Jeremiah Grossman
WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must receive timely information about how they
can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into
the performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining these insights
is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom web applications, code that is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the most well- known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and recommendations.
No More Snake Oil: Why InfoSec Needs Security GuaranteesJeremiah Grossman
Ever notice how everything in InfoSec is sold “as is”? No guarantees, no warrantees, no return policies. For some reason in InfoSec, providing customers with a form of financial coverage for their investment is seen as gimmicky, but the tides and times are changing. This talk discusses use cases on why guarantees are a must have and how guarantees benefit customers as well as InfoSec as a whole.
In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long; and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent. Only then will application security progress be made.
http://blackhat.com/us-13/briefings.html#Grossman
Online advertising networks can be a web hacker’s best friend. For mere pennies per thousand impressions (that means browsers) there are service providers who allow you to broadly distribute arbitrary javascript -- even malicious javascript! You are SUPPOSED to use this “feature” to show ads, to track users, and get clicks, but that doesn’t mean you have to abide. Absolutely nothing prevents spending $10, $100, or more to create a massive javascript-driven browser botnet instantly. The real-world power is spooky cool. We know, because we tested it… in-the-wild.
With a few lines of HTML5 and javascript code we’ll demonstrate just how you can easily commandeer browsers to perform DDoS attacks, participate in email spam campaigns, crack hashes and even help brute-force passwords. Put simply, instruct browsers to make HTTP requests they didn’t intend, even something as well-known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. With CSRF, no zero-days or malware is required. Oh, and there is no patch. The Web is supposed to work this way. Also nice, when the user leaves the page, our code vanishes. No traces. No tracks.
Before leveraging advertising networks, the reason this attack scenario didn’t worry many people is because it has always been difficult to scale up, which is to say, simultaneously control enough browsers (aka botnets) to reach critical mass. Previously, web hackers tried poisoning search engine results, phishing users via email, link spamming Facebook, Twitter and instant messages, Cross-Site Scripting attacks, publishing rigged open proxies, and malicious browser plugins. While all useful methods in certain scenarios, they lack simplicity, invisibility, and most importantly -- scale. That’s what we want! At a moment’s notice, we will show how it is possible to run javascript on an impressively large number of browsers all at once and no one will be the wiser. Today this is possible, and practical.
http://blog.whitehatsec.com/top-ten-web-hacking-techniques-of-2012/
Recorded Webinar: https://www.whitehatsec.com/webinar/whitehat_webinar_march2713.html
Every year the security community produces a stunning amount of new Web hacking techniques that are published in various white papers, blog posts, magazine articles, mailing list emails, conference presentations, etc. Within the thousands of pages are the latest ways to attack websites, Web browsers, Web proxies, and their mobile platform equivilents. Beyond individual vulnerabilities with CVE numbers or system compromises, here we are solely focused on new and creative methods of Web-based attack. Now it its seventh year, The Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques list encourages information sharing, provides a centralized knowledge-base, and recognizes researchers who contribute excellent work. Past Top Tens and the number of new attack techniques discovered in each year:
Web Breaches in 2011-“This is Becoming Hourly News and Totally Ridiculous"Jeremiah Grossman
In 2011, attitude towards hacks shifted from "It happens," to "It is happening.” A poorly coded website and web application is all that’s needed to wreak havoc – expensive firewall, pervasive anti-virus and multi-factor authentication be damned. But what is possible? What types of attacks and attackers should we be mindful of? This presentation will show the real risks in a post-2011 Internet.
video demos: http://whitehatsec.com/home/assets/videos/Top10WebHacks_Webinar031711.zip
Many notable and new Web hacking techniques were revealed in 2010. During this presentation, Jeremiah Grossman will describe the technical details of the top hacks from 2010, as well as some of the prevalent security issues emerging in 2011. Attendees will be treated to a step-by-step guided tour of the newest threats targeting today's corporate websites and enterprise users.
The top attacks in 2010 include:
• 'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack
• Evercookie
• Hacking Auto-Complete
• Attacking HTTPS with Cache Injection
• Bypassing CSRF protections with ClickJacking and HTTP Parameter Pollution
• Universal XSS in IE8
• HTTP POST DoS
• JavaSnoop
• CSS History Hack In Firefox Without JavaScript for Intranet Portscanning
• Java Applet DNS Rebinding
Mr. Grossman will then briefly identify real-world examples of each of these vulnerabilities in action, outlining how the issue occurs, and what preventative measures can be taken. With that knowledge, he will strategize what defensive solutions will have the most impact.
Website attacks continue to prevail despite the best efforts of enterprises to fight them. Websites are an ongoing business concern and security must be assured all the time, not just at a point in time. And yet, most websites were exposed to at least one serious vulnerability every day of 2010, leaving valuable corporate and customer date at risk. Why?
In this report, Jeremiah will explore a new way to measure website security, Windows of Exposure, that tracks an organization’s current and historical website security posture. Window of Exposure is a useful combination of vulnerability prevalence, how long vulnerabilities take to get fixed, and the percentage of them that are remediated. By carefully tracking these metrics, an organization can determine where resources would be best invested.
Using data from WhiteHat’s 11th Website Security Statistics Report, based on assessments of over 3,000 websites, Grossman will reveal the most secure (and insecure) vertical markets and the Windows of Exposure of each. Find out how your industry ranks, and the top ten vulnerabilities plaguing your peers. Learn how to determine which metrics are critical to increasing their remediation rates, thereby limiting their Window of Exposure. The good news is that companies that take this approach are increasing remediation rates by 5 percent per year.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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VARIATIONS/
OBFUSCATORS
Alters known malicious
code to make it appear
new/different
PACKERS
Designed to ensure code
runs only on a real machine
(anti-virtual machines,
sleepers, interactions,
anti-debug)
TARGETING
Allows code to run only
on a specific targeted
machine or device with
specific configuration
MALWARE
The code that runs on the
victim’s machine
WRAPPERS
Designed to turn code into
a new binary
Attack Masking
Techniques
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NEXT GENERATION ENDPOINT PROTECTION
AS AN ANTIVIRUS REPLACEMENT
If you’re evaluating next-generation endpoint security solutions, you may be thinking it’s
yet another tool to install and potentially bloat your endpoint (as well as your budget.)
And if you’re in a regulated industry, you may be required to keep your antivirus and install
endpoint protection as an additional layer to protect against new and unknown attacks.
Many next-generation endpoint security vendors would actually not claim that they can be
an Antivirus replacement. But if the next-generation vendor has been tested and certified as
meeting Antivirus requirements (and passing the detection test), you can consider replacing
your Antivirus with next-generation endpoint security.
To completely replace the protection capabilities of existing legacy, static-based endpoint
protection technologies, NGEP needs to be able to stand on its own to secure endpoints
against both legacy and advanced threats throughout various stages of the attack lifecycle.
ors
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4
Mitigation /
Prevention.
Detecting threats is necessary,
but with detection only, many
attacks go unresolved for days,
weeks, or months. Automated
and timely threat prevention
must be an integral part of NGEP.
Prevention options should be
policy-based and flexible enough
to cover a wide range of use
cases, such as quarantining a
file, killing a specific process,
disconnecting the infected
machine from the network, or
even completely shutting it
down. Quick mitigation during
inception stages of the attack
lifecycle will minimize damage
and speed remediation.
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Remediation.
During execution, malware often
creates, modifies, or deletes
system file and registry settings
and changes configuration
settings. These changes, or
remnants that are left behind,
can cause system malfunction
or instability. NGEP must be
able to restore an endpoint to its
pre-malware, trusted state, while
logging what changed and what
was successfully remediated.
6
Forensics.
Since no security technology
claims to be 100% effective,
the ability to provide real-time
endpoint forensics and visibility
is a must. Clear and timely
visibility into malicious activity
throughout an organization
allows you to quickly assess
the scope of an attack and take
appropriate responses. This
requires a clear, real-time audit
trail of what happened on an
endpoint during an attack and
the ability to search for indicators
of compromise.
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6. Is the management server cloud-based or on-premise?
7. What is done to prevent false positives and learn benign system behavior? What is the
current false positive rate?
8. Do they integrate with SIEM systems for incident management?
9. Are there prevention policies to protect against threats in real-time?
10. What levels of contracted support does the endpoint protection vendor provide? Are
software updates and upgrades part of the licensing fee?
LICENSING
Typically, endpoint protection products are purchased as licenses per user or per endpoint,
often in 1-year, 2-year or 3-year increments. Vendors typically offer volume discounts for
larger environments. License costs vary, but are usually $30 to $70 each, depending on the
vendor and number of licenses purchased. The cost can be deceptive, as some endpoint
protection products may provide narrow functionality that requires additional products to
be installed. Weigh the cost in terms of functionality and how many products you have to
install for total endpoint security.
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Forensics – A 360-degree view of the attack including file information, path, machine name,
IP, domain, and more (available within SentinelOne or through your SIEM)
In addition, SentinelOne EPP is a single, lightweight solution that uses an average of 1-2%
CPU, so endpoints are able to do what they’re supposed to do - be a laptop, desktop,
mobile device, or server. As it focuses on what’s right for each system, no signature
updates/active scans are needed, and endpoints are always protected, whether you’re on or
off the network. SentinelOne EPP is supported on major mobile, desktop/laptop, and server
operating systems.
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NEXT STEPS
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For more information on SentinelOne, please visit www.sentinelone.com.
AV-TEST CERTIFICATION
AV-TEST, a leading independent anti-virus research institute, has awarded SentinelOne EPP
the Approved Corporate Endpoint Protection certification for both Windows and OSX, which
validates its effectiveness for detecting both advanced malware and blocking known threats.
This validation now enables enterprises to replace their existing corporate antivirus suites
with SentinelOne EPP and still meet compliance requirements, such as PCI DSS. SentinelOne
EPP is the only next generation endpoint protection vendor to obtain this certification.