Three Security Lessons to Keep in Mind Leading Up To the R-CISC Summit
It’s never been more important for retailers to harden their cybersecurity posture— especially given the documented trend of intensified attacks on retailers during the rapidly-approaching holiday season. We’re excited to attend the 2018 Retail Cyber Intelligence Summit in Denver and look forward to learning from and sharing perspective with the ... Read More
Three Lessons You Can Learn from A Recent Security Breach
After an organization has been breached, one of the most critical steps to take is to determine the root cause and to take active steps to more proactively protect the business. Recently, Preempt was brought in to help a Fortune 500 company with a critical internal threat situation. A malicious ... Read More
3 Ways to Improve Incident Response Time with IATP
Companies today are exposed to many threats and incident response (IR) teams have to respond to both real or suspected breaches. Incidents can include credential compromise, phishing, malware in the network, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, zero day threats, and unauthorized changes to the network, hardware or software to name ... Read More
Going on the Offense: How to Eliminate Internal Threats
Over the past few years, we’ve observed significant changes in the types of conversations we’re having with CISOs. What used to be discussions about how to keep bad guys out has evolved to how to manage and address internal threats. Internal threats come in a variety of shapes and sizes ... Read More
No More Paralysis by Analysis: How Security is Evolving to Real-Time Outcomes
A well-known CISO customer was recently telling me about his experience with implementing new security solutions. His consistent feeling? Dread – the security alerts and things that can suddenly break in the beginning can be overwhelming. “Everything goes red,” he said, referring to the immediate influx of red alerts and ... Read More
It’s 2018. How does Silicon Valley think about a Series B these days?
With Silicon Valley continuing to lead the nation in VC funding (source: Bloomberg), expectations are clear: invest that funding and deliver, deliver, and deliver some more for your customers (and investors, employees, partners and stakeholders) ... Read More
How to Strengthen Your Cyber Security DNA
Cyber security is a complex animal that requires many disciplines and a diverse toolkit. Typically, resources are limited, and incident response and security staff are overloaded with noise, irrelevant alerts and incomplete static information. With so many diverse systems its difficult to utilize them in a coordinated and timely way ... Read More
We’re #1! And #2, #5, and #6 in Gartner Top 10 Security Projects
At the recent Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, analysts presented their findings on the top technologies for information security and their implications for security organizations in 2018. At the event Neil MacDonald highlighted Top 10 Security Projects for Security and Risk Management Organizations. He continues by emphasizing that these ... Read More
Detection Only Solutions Aren’t Enough For Today’s Security Teams
Last week I had the opportunity to speak with several CISOs about what they are doing to deal with cyberattacks, breaches and internal threats. A consistent theme I heard is that detection only solutions aren't enough. They need more practical approaches to rapidly respond to anomalous behavior and they need ... Read More
6 Tips for Securing Privileged Accounts in the Enterprise
Protecting privileged accounts and actively responding to any potential compromises has become a critical initiative for many CISOs. Stolen credentials are at the heart of most all modern attacks and breaches. Attackers can easily obtain credentials via phishing attacks, brute force, keyloggers, pass-the-hash techniques, or using a database of previously ... Read More
