Threat Detection

OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter Delivers Simple, Fast Threat Visibility to Assess Business Risk from Malware and Other Threats. At RSA Conference 2018, AlienVault®, the leading provider of Unified Security Management® (USM) and crowdsourced threat intelligence, today announced the launch of its OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter™, a free threat-scanning service in the Open Threat Exchange® (OTX™) available to any registered OTX user. This first-of-its-kind service natively leverages over 19 million indicators of compromise (IoCs) contributed to...

A new Total Economic Impact (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by AlienVault, a leading crowdsourced threat intelligence provider, examined the potential return on investment (ROI) for organisations that deployed the AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) Platform and has revealed excelling results for the product. Organisations that deployed the AlienVault solution saw an 80 percent improvement in threat detection and incident response time, effectively reducing the risk of a security breach and bringing down the...

SANS Report Sponsored by DomainTools Reveals Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Gaining Momentum as Organizations Battle to Keep Up with Hackers] As cyberattacks and attackers become more blatant and pervasive each year, a new SANS Institute report, in conjunction with DomainTools, shows organizations around the globe are turning towards Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) to detect, respond, and ultimately prevent attacks. DomainTools, the leader in domain name and DNS-based cyber threat intelligence, co-sponsored the SANS survey and...

The leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions, Alert Logic, has announced the results of their recent survey, revealing the latest data points and trends in cybersecurity. The survey was conducted in the UK, Benelux and Nordics, amongst 317 professionals in the security industry. Cybersecurity is all about preventing, detecting and remediating both internal and external threats which companies and government organisations face daily. A continuous stream of new technologies, in various forms, have emerged as a...

Unlike legacy signature-based detection systems, today’s generation of AI-powered security technologies are rarely suited to a plug-it-in-and-watch-it-light-up evaluation strategy. They often include a mix of supervised and unsupervised machine learning, automated threat hunting, trained classifiers, and focus on reducing the number of erroneous and unactionable alerts. As a result, evaluating their detection efficacy requires carefully planned testing before making a buying decision. For products focused on detecting network-borne threats, it is always wise to account...