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EDR helps against complex attacks
Track EDR

With the help of EDR, companies even ward off extensive cyber attacks on their networks. An integrated approach equips even small businesses with automated tools that ward off complex attacks. It is logical that an attack on a company only makes sense if the potential gain outweighs the organizational costs. Until relatively recently, cyber criminals guarded their know-how like trade secrets. Advanced attack tools, if sold on the Internet at all, were not widely available - and if at all, only at exorbitant prices. Really sophisticated attacks were only aimed at ...

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Target of attack: old software from industrial robots
Network industrial robots

Trend Micro provides information about dangerous design errors and weaknesses in legacy programming languages ​​for industrial robots. In collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano, Trend Micro publish basic guidelines for safe OT development. Trend Micro presents new research that indicates design weaknesses in legacy programming languages ​​used in industrial systems. The security researchers are also publishing new guidelines for secure programming, which are intended to help developers of Industry 4.0 systems to significantly reduce the surface area for software attacks. This effectively prevents business interruptions in OT (Operational Technology) environments. Vulnerable automation programs of industrial robots In cooperation with the Polytechnic University ...

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Sandboxing: better control of attacks
sandboxing

Kaspersky sandboxing technology can now also be used in customer networks. The new on-premise solution Kaspersky Research Sandbox is aimed at organizations with strict data sharing restrictions. With the sandbox technology, users are now able to set up internal security operations centers (SOCs) or computer emergency response teams (CERTs). The solution supports corporate security experts in discovering and analyzing targeted attacks, while at the same time ensuring that all scanned files remain within their own organization. Last year around half of the companies (45 percent) experienced a targeted attack ...

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Qualys with Ivanti Patch Management
PC input

Qualys integrates Ivanti Patch Management with the Qualys VMDR platform. End devices update themselves with just one click. Qualys’s Vulnerability Management Detection Response (VMDR) platform streamlines vulnerability detection and patching from endpoint to data center. Ivanti and Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, are expanding their partnership. The expansion provides for the integration of the Ivanti patch management technology into the VMDR® platform (Vulnerability Management Detection Response) from Qualys. This next phase of integration will then enable Qualys customers to use MacOS systems as well as over 70 Mac applications from ...

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Lazarus group is behind encryption trojan
News B2B Cyber ​​Security

The backdoor of the multi-platform malware framework MATA was used in VHD ransomware and exposed the APT group Lazarus as the backers of the. During the analysis of two cases of VHD ransomware in attacks in Europe and Asia, Kaspersky researchers were able to assign them to the notorious North Korean APT group Lazarus. Both the development of ransomware and the financially motivated background of it indicate a change in strategy for the group; both are highly unusual for a government-sponsored APT group. In March and April 2020 there were first reports about the so-called VHD ransomware, which is characterized by its self-replication ability and aims to collect money from ...

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Managed detection and response via MSPs
Network security cloud

MSP partners can now use Bitdefender's Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services. IT service providers receive an established, automated and integrated service for security and risk analysis. Bitdefender is a global leader in cybersecurity solutions protecting over 500 million systems in 150 countries. Bitdefender detection and prevention engines are trusted by more than 20.000 MSPs worldwide. These engines are now supplemented with Managed Detection and Response Services, which are supported by a Bitdefender SOC with 24 × 7 service. The experts search for, identify and neutralize cyber threats in order to find new and existing MSP partners and their ...

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Fortinet - cross-cloud SD-WAN solution
Cloud application

Fortinet introduces cross-cloud SD-WAN solution to simplify and improve multi-cloud applications. Fortinet's Secure SD-WAN for Multi-Cloud enables users to use scalable, cost-effective SD-WAN anywhere Fortinet, the world's leading provider of comprehensive, integrated and automated cyber security solutions, introduces Fortinet Secure SD-WAN for Multi-Cloud. Secure SD-WAN for Multi-Cloud is a network and security solution that enables users to use SD-WAN across multiple clouds and regions to solve common requirements for performance, transparency, costs and control of applications that occur in multi-cloud implementations . Most companies - around 93 percent according to the latest estimates - now have ...

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Microsoft is helping to switch to the modern desktop
Office with PC

Microsoft ended support for Windows 14 on January 2020, 7. For all customers with Windows 7 PCs, this means that since that day there have been no more software updates or free security updates from Microsoft. The extended support for the office software Office 2010 also ended at this point. Business customers who want to switch to Windows 10 can find comprehensive information on this website. Although Microsoft offers long lead times for upgrades, it has been learned that business customers can take longer to make the switch. Microsoft supports corporate customers and authorities when switching ...

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VMware Threat Report on Cyber ​​Security in Germany
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VMware Threat Carbon Black Report on cybersecurity: Survey results show fewer data leaks in Germany overall - Covid-19 pandemic brings new threats to cybersecurity. VMware, Inc., a leading innovator of enterprise software, announces the results of its third threat report on cybersecurity in Germany. For the report, 2020 CIOs, CTOs and CISOs in Germany were surveyed in March and April 251 by the independent research company Opinion Matters on behalf of VMware Carbon Black. The results show that both the volume of cyber attacks and the number of data leaks increased less strongly ...

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Ivantis Neurons platform
Automation on off

Ivantis introduces hyper automation platform for self-heal, self-secure and self-service from the cloud to the edge. With "Ivanti Neurons", Ivanti has introduced a hyper-automation platform that enables companies to equip endpoints in the company network with automated self-healing functions. Ivanti Neurons supports IT teams with automation bots that quickly identify problems and security gaps and fix them on their own. In addition, it improves the speed of reaction and the cost balance of the IT departments. First users of the solution, such as London's Kingston University, were able to reduce unplanned downtimes in the network by up to 63%, accelerate the provision of security updates by 88% and ...

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