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The Reserve Bank of India – Cyber Security Framework

Mandating Robust Attack Detection, Response, and Recovery The cybersecurity guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 2016 serve as a stark reminder of the need for robust cyber threat detection and response. Although the RBI released extensive IT...

Deception and Compliance: The Co-Existence Conundrum

Cyber Deception

In our recent blog, we looked at using Deception solutions to satisfy compliance regulations, in particular controls which are intended to promote active discovery of anomalous behavior. In this blog we’re switching gears and looking at a different aspect of...

Tunneling for Network Deceptions

Cyber Deception

Patent Awarded to Acalvio Acalvio was awarded U.S. Patent No. 20,170,310,706, titled “Tunneling For Network Deceptions”. This patent forms the basis of the Deception Farms® architecture. This blog goes a little deep into the patent to talk about what the patented...

Deception and Compliance – It’s the Intent that Matters

Cyber Deception

Compliance is like an annual checkup at the dentist: Nothing good is likely to come of it and we want it to be as fast and painless as possible. In the first of two blogs on compliance, we’ll consider how best to think about compliance intent, and how deception can...

Ransomware Deja Vu: Louisiana Schools’ Emergency Alert

Ransomware

On 24 July, 2019 the State of Louisiana actually had to declare a state of emergency over what appears to have been a ransomware attack against at least three of the school districts within the state. So far, the districts impacted include Sabine, Ouachita, and...

Know Your Adversary, Before They ATT&CK

Active defense

The Cyber Kill Chain If you’re reading this blog, you likely know the basics of the cyber kill chain. You might even be able to name a few of the seven stages in the kill chain, which lays out the steps adversaries take to attack and exploit their victims. Where you...

NIST’s Expertise on APTs: Gaining Serious Insight – Acalvio

Cyber Deception

If there's any organization that knows about dealing with advanced persistent threats (APTs) it's NIST. The US government is constantly targeted by the most sophisticated adversaries, and the attacks are directed at both the government agencies themselves, and...

“Amazon Firestick” is to “VCR”, as “Deception” is to _________

Cyber Deception

Complete the Analogy: “Amazon Firestick” is to “VCR”, as “Deception” is to _________. Correct Answer: “Honeypot” Remember your SAT or ACT exams with the analogy questions? If so you probably got this one right. For those of us old enough to remember, Video...

The Deceptively Simple Shortcut to Visibility

Cyber Deception

If you’ve ever had a security vendor pitch their wiz-bang internal network threat prevention solution, you’ve probably thought at some point “You’re getting ahead of yourself. First we need to know what’s going on, then we can talk about active controls on the...

Using Deep Learning for Information Security – Part 2

Cyber Deception

Authors: Santosh Kosgi, Mohammad Waseem, Arunabha Choudhury, and Satnam Singh Deep Learning-based methods have been successfully applied to various computer vision and NLP based problems recently [1]. AI researchers have achieved statistically significant improvements...