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Going Back to Basics to Prevent Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware attacks on a daily basis. Ransomware attacks are now daily news as new malware families emerge with nearly the same frequency and enterprises increasingly become the targets.
Back to the Basics: Detecting Malicious Windows Services With Tanium
An essential part of “knowing your network” is tracking endpoint persistence mechanisms – the myriad of ways in which an operating system can automatically load and execute code. For over a decade, background services have been one of the most commonly utilized persistence locations in Windows.
Cyber Literacy and the Board
The accountability gap. Tanium teamed up with NASDAQ to shed light on the gap between corporate leaders’ presumed and actual understanding of their own cybersecurity vulnerability.
Bridging the Accountability Gap: Why We Need to Adopt a Culture of Responsibility
Businesses face a litany of existential threats: hostile takeovers, talent departures, unpredictable customer behavior and market fluctuations – all deeply familiar risks that leaders have carefully planned for and assessed over decades. Yet these same leaders are often alarmingly unprepared for the most potentially damaging threat: a massive data breach that could mean the loss of everything … all in a matter of seconds.
It’s Time to Get Serious About Ending Endpoint ‘Tool Bloat’
Explaining endpoint ‘tool bloat’. Have you managed to acquire a pile of security tools in your organization that sit unused? It’s a common issue and it’s one we see a lot in the endpoint security space.
Don’t Get Hijacked! Searching for DLL Load Order Attacks With Tanium
Explaining DLL hijacking. DLL Hijacking, commonly referred to as load order or search order hijacking, is a well-documented malware persistence technique that continues to elude detection and pose a significant challenge for investigators.
What’s Next in Endpoint Security: Announcing Tanium Protect™
A decade or more ago, the choice for how to allocate precious information security dollars was easy. The reality of today is much more complex.
It’s Only the Beginning
“There are three existential threats that can put us out of business today,” a CEO recently told me. “Meteors, nuclear war and cybersecurity.”
Assessing What Matters in an EDR Solution
Looking back at 2015, it’s hard to dispute that the security industry has been flooded with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) products. Walk the sponsor floor at any conference or sample the white papers and marketing pitches from any vendor web site, and you’ll see the same claims repeated ad nauseam: “Prevent, Detect, and Respond” at “enterprise scale” in “real time.”
a16z Podcast: The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
At September’s a16z Capital Summit, Andreessen Horowitz’s Ben Horowitz and Tanium’s Orion Hindawi sat down to discuss “The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth”, featured this week on the a16z Podcast.
How to Rapidly Remedy the OpenSSH Vulnerability
Last week, Qualys published a security advisory exposing vulnerabilities (CVE-2016–0777 and 0778) in OpenSSH client versions 5.4 to 7.1. When exploited, these vulnerabilities can result in the theft of private key material.
Reducing Risk During Mergers and Acquisitions
A checklist to create cross-company visibility of all systems. Mergers and acquisitions activity among the world’s largest companies has been on the upswing since 2014 with Dow and DuPont making headlines last week as the latest blockbuster merger, following names like Starwood and Marriott and AT&T and DirecTV.