Tag: Malicious activity

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How much do you know about User Behavior Analytics (UBA), emerging solution that helps detect growing malicious and abusive insider activity across IT environment that otherwise can go unnoticed? This article details the key challenges for protecting the most critical assets within your IT...

Ransomware is one of the fastest growing classes of malicious software. In recent years, ransomware has evolved from a simple lock screen with the ransom damage into far more dangerous variants, such as crypto-ransomware. 1. What is  Crypto-Ransomware Unlike traditional malware,...

There are many things that you can do as an administrator to reduce or eliminate risks associated with your Domain Controllers.  In this article, we’ll take a look at some tools you can employ to help with this. Attack Surface – This concept refers to software, protocols and ports are used...

The long-existing problem of email hacking appears to be unsolved by 2016. According to the recent warning released by FBI, companies have lost above $2.3 billion over the past three years due to email frauds, in which the employees are tricked into wiring funds to adversaries by fake messages sent...

Unfortunately, 70% of organizations which have established controls to manage changes in their IT infrastructures, bypass security policy requirements and unable to provide preventative actions in time. This increases the risk of data breaches and undermines the viability of companies’ own...

Windows servers can potentially generate thousands—or even hundreds of thousands—of events daily. Most are created from perfectly safe events that system administrators use to get a glimpse of what’s going on. An event might be generated to indicate a disk is running out of free space, an...