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What is an Active Directory? Why is it Important?
Microsoft created Active Directory (AD), a directory service for Windows domain networks. It offers authentication and authorization services along with a centralized location for storing and managing data about resources and users on a network. AD is crucial for...
Using Generative AI to create deceptions for Identity Protection
Generative AI has taken the world by storm. It has become an exciting and rapidly developing field that involves the creation of images, videos, music, text, and other data using generative AI models.
Deception in Depth: Mitigating Internal Attacks – Acalvio
Recently, an interesting survey pointed out that malware attacks are going fileless. In some cases, this means even using an internal employee to help with the process. For example, the attack on the Bank of Bangladesh and you quickly realize that advanced attackers...
Threat Hunting the Modern Way
When you think threat hunting, what comes to mind? For most enterprise security staff, the answer is “Hmmm, not sure if that’s for me”.
Detection of Prevalent Threats by Distributed Deception
Today’s breaches are overwhelmingly carried out in a series of sophisticated, multi-stage attacks. The stages of such attacks can best be described by a “Cyber Kill Chain,” which as per MITRE ATT&CK Adversary Tactic Model [1] breaks down cyber intrusions into the...
Hiding in Plain Sight: Streamlining Deception for Security
Honeypots. Just those three syllables are enough to cause instant nausea with a cyber security professional. Why? Honeypots are hard to operationalize into an effective, easy to use and consistent defense. But times are changing with the proliferation of deception...
If Deception is so Great, Why Isn’t Everyone Doing it?
Using deception as a threat detection solution would seem to be a no-brainer: It can detect malware at multiple points in the kill chain, with no false positives and no modifications or impact to production systems. Everyone must be doing it you would think....
Booz Allen & Acalvio Partner for Advanced Cyber Deception
Booz Allen Hamilton announced a global partnership with Acalvio today to provide Advanced Cyber Deception Capabilities to Government and Commercial Organizations.
DECEPTION: YOU KEEP USING THAT WORD…
Cyber deception. Do you know what it means?
Your Building’s Cyber Defenses Have Been Upgraded!
Today, Honeywell and Acalvio announced the launch of Honeywell Threat Defense Platform (HTDP) Powered by Acalvio. HTDP brings a new approach in the ongoing effort to secure Operation Technology (OT) networks including those networks running the health and safety...
Acalvio ShadowPlex Awarded FedRAMP Ready Status by US government
Today we are pleased to announce that Acalvio’s cloud-based ShadowPlex Active Defense platform has been awarded FedRAMP Ready status by the US Government’s General Services Administration. This award demonstrates…
Microsoft Active Directory Security Part 3: A Deception-Based Approach
Previously, we covered understanding AD Attack Surface and AD Attack Paths on this Active Directory Protection blog series. This post looks at Acalvio’s novel approach to protecting Active Directory against advanced persistent threats.