Strengthening Cyber Resilience: A Milestone Partnership
As the CEO of HYAS, I am thrilled to announce a pivotal partnership with ZainTECH, a trailblazer in integrated digital solutions and part of the esteemed Zain Group. This collaboration signifies a significant step forward in our shared mission to bolster cyber defenses across the Middle East, leveraging our innovative ... Read More
Proactive Intelligence: A Paradigm Shift In Cyber Defense
Traditionally, cybersecurity has been a reactive game: We respond to cyber threats as they arise, analyze the incidents, add pertinent information to “deny lists”, and update stakeholders on “what happened.”But in today’s threat landscape hackers move too quickly, tactics become too sophisticated and attack vectors are too numerous for security ... Read More
Why Cybersecurity Must Include Protective DNS
The Domain Name System (DNS) isn’t just the phonebook of the internet. It’s also the primary way malware discovers how to communicate with its command-and-control for instructions, data exfiltration, and more. Protective DNS puts a stop to this. High efficacy and low false positives don’t just come from looking at ... Read More
What is Proactive Threat Intelligence and Why Should I Care?
Lots of people talk about the value of threat intelligence for an organization trying to defend itself from the near-constant onslaught of attacks, and the various different ways to obtain good and valuable intel. They are not wrong. Threat intelligence should be part of everyone’s cyber protection and resiliency strategy ... Read More
Using Proactive Intelligence Against Adversary Infrastructure
Organizations cannot and will never keep bad actors from breaching their perimeter: They’ll always find a way in. But that doesn’t mean that organizations can’t still make themselves resilient against cyber attacks and address their digital risk. Germany-based independent security evaluators AV-TEST found that HYAS Protect Protective DNS is the most ... Read More
A Recap of Cybersecurity in 2023 and What’s Ahead for 2024
With high-profile breaches in the news across the world and increasingly sophisticated threats, cybersecurity professionals face more challenges than ever before. The threat landscape now requires security teams to ensure that robust frameworks and protocols are in place and to approach budgets and planning with pragmatism. HYAS CEO, David Ratner, ... Read More
What Human Anatomy Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity
If you know me, you know that I love analogies. I find that they not only help people understand how things work but successful analogies also provide credence that an idea is a good one – if the model works in one situation then why doesn’t the same approach work ... Read More
What Is Adversary Infrastructure?
Chasing Command-and-Control When companies and organizations started initially trying to determine what was and wasn’t command-and-control (2) on the Internet so they could implement Protective DNS and related solutions, the first and easiest solution was the tried-and-true “allow and deny” lists. It’s a reasonably simple but effective approach – the ... Read More
10 Cybersecurity Trends That Emerged in 2023
Our digital world never stands still. How we do business and interact with each other is evolving at a breakneck pace. We saw during the pandemic that digital transformation of all kinds can happen faster than we ever thought possible. It’s a thrilling time to work in cybersecurity, but new ... Read More
But It Runs Really Fast
My uncle ran an advertising agency a long time ago, but I still remember one of his impactful ads. It was a picture of a car completely totaled after an accident. The car was damaged beyond repair, and it was obvious that the extent of the damage would have risked ... Read More
