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Detecting and containing a data breach takes the better part of a year, approximately 280 days, for the average organization, according to IBM’s 15th annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, Unfortunately, the longer it ta...

When conducting an audit of your cybersecurity plans, it’s important to reassess risk and evaluate whether established policies and procedures are both effective and actionable. To aid in cyber compliance, CSO Online s...

Introduction For quite some time we at Prevailion have been speaking publicly to the nature of the differences between Prevailion and other vendors in the threat intelligence market, and for good reason. There are two ke...

When two companies are directly connected to each other, they need to believe that the other is doing all it can to shore up its defenses. What happens, though, when the relationship between two companies is distinctivel...

Earlier this year Dark Reading published a six part series, “Cybersecurity and the Human Element: We’re All Fallible,” in which the authors examined common mistakes of end users as well as the potential repercussio...

Assessments are important. You’d be hard pressed to find any cybersecurity professional who would argue they aren’t needed, but the problem with third-party risk assessments is that they are far from comprehensive. U...

Everyone has something to hide. The beauty of that truth for hackers is that even if they don’t know their target’s dirty little secrets, they know that no one wants their secrets exposed. The mere threat of being pu...

When researchers at Independent Security Evaluators published its 2016 report, Hacking Hospitals, the idea that vulnerabilities in medical devices could result in patient harm seemed like a serving of FUD (fear, uncertai...

According to the annual ESG survey, 60% of companies said they were targeted with a ransomware attack in 2019. Not surprisingly, those organizations are looking to augment their cybersecurity tools and processes. Defense...

While many feel that they are living in Groundhog Day, the days and weeks do continue to pass us by, bringing the 2020 Presidential election closer with still no clear path for securing the election process. Recognizing ...

How did a group of criminals come to be responsible for such a costly enterprise? Threat actors are distributed, and they don’t form one cohesive group,  but the holes they've punched in organizations and governments ...

With nation-state grade cyber warfare becoming the norm, CISOs need to expand their toolbox. A next gen solution might be the answer....

We can now move from the realm of the indicator of compromise or attack to Evidence of Compromise (EOC) resulting in real, actionable Compromise Intelligence....

A disturbing trend has emerged in the hospitals subsector of our global compromise intelligence visibility, showing hospitals in the US and France with compromises that are rapidly spreading....

Marriott International, Inc. is the latest victim in a string of cyber breaches targeting hotel chains, and Evidence of Compromise within Prevailion captured the key moments the organization veered off course and ultimat...

Many of today’s businesses are beholden to a fundamental weakness—they are blind to the scope of their true perimeter. As businesses grow larger, their vast third-party vulnerabilities unfurl themselves, exposing the...

As if the world needed another example, a ransomware group has proven there is no honor among thieves.  The cybercriminal group Maze attacked the network of Hammersmith Medicines Research, a London-based medical res...

Just shy of a week after Microsoft squeezed cyber criminals out of the prolific Necurs botnet infrastructure, threat actors like TA505 still maintain a foothold on networks throughout the world. Findings from Prevailion&...

The Tailored Intelligence Team at Prevailion has detected a new campaign—at least a facet of which is currently active—dubbed The Curious Case of the Criminal Curriculum Vitae....