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    • Threat Intelligence

    By studying adversaries and understanding their strategies and objectives, organizations can build more effective, more refined and more robust cyberdefenses. This series demonstrates how threat intelligence can be used to help organizations of all sizes strengthen their security posture and accelerate security decision-making processes. With a smarter and more targeted response to cyberthreats, organizations can allocate security resource more efficiently, proactively getting ahead of future attacks and raising the barrier to entry for cybercriminals intent on breaking in.

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    What does good resilience look like?

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    November 18, 2019

    Business leaders can learn a lot about cyberdefense by studying how a lioness protects her cubs. Like any mother, she puts up the stiffest defenses against all known forms of attack. But she will also take care to instill resilience in her offspring in case, inevitably, those defenses at...

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    Spanish consultancy Everis suffers BitPaymer ransomware attack: a brief analysis

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    November 6, 2019

    On 4th November 2019 researchers and the media reported a massive ransomware attack against several Spanish companies. Some of this news was exaggerated as it transpired that just two companies confirmed a security incident. However, both companies were attacked by a different threat actor.  This blog post will seek to clarify some details concerning the attack against Everis, which was different to...

    Roast the perfect blend of automation and human intelligence

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    November 4, 2019

    For those who enjoy a good cup of coffee, many more would surely choose a barista-made brew than take their chances from a vending machine. Automation, so the argument goes, is not a panacea. This coffee analogy is often brought out in debates about the emergence of security automation...

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    State of the market: Threat Intel in 2019

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    September 18, 2019

    Lifting the veil The threat intelligence market is growing rapidly but there is still some haziness in organizations’ understanding of the segment. Many consider threat intelligence the answer to thwarting the increasingly complex and devastating cyberattacks that plague organizations and individuals, but few understand exactly what it means beyond...

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    The cost of doing business: cyberthreat intelligence for retail & e-commerce

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    September 12, 2019

    The internet has changed the way that goods and services are bought and sold. The retail and e-commerce sector continues to undergo rapid transformation as consumer expectation increases. We demand high quality experiences, products and services, on desktop and on mobile. On the back end, analytic engines, third-party integrations...

    EuskalHack

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    June 26, 2019

    Last week, Blueliv was invited to participate in the fourth edition of EuskalHack in San Sebastián. Geared towards sharing information, the event hosted presentations focused on new discoveries, personal projects and tools from different disciplines in cybersecurity. These included both red team and blue team activities, both sharing information...

    Data breach under GDPR: one year later

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    May 28, 2019

    The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25th May 2018. Just over a year later, European data protection regulators have reported nearly 90,000 data breach notifications so far, and notably these are only those which have been legally disclosed. Law firm DLA Piper recently suggested...

    Shining a light on the darknet

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    May 21, 2019

    A common visualization for the Internet is an iceberg. The indexed ‘surface’ web is less than 10% of what is visible, but 90% is non-indexed and known as the deep web. A small subset of the deep web includes hidden information and services: the dark web, or darknet. It’s...

    Threat Actor activity: a quick recap

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    May 3, 2019

    In our recent Threat Landscape Report we profiled several active threat actors which have made an impact over the past year. All of the threat actors in this article remain under close observation. Sharing this intelligence is part of our ongoing mission to collaborate with industry peers, enrich the...

    Threat intelligence for healthcare: how to get the most out of your investment

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    February 14, 2019

    Healthcare C-suite leaders are facing challenging times. This is the most breached sector globally, accounting for 24% of all cases investigated by Verizon. Valuable patient data, mission critical but exposed digital endpoints and strict compliance requirements all add to the cybersecurity challenge. This is where threat intelligence (TI) can...

    Real-time threat detection and why timing is the key to threat intelligence

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    January 31, 2019

    You wouldn’t sit idle under siege. However, when it comes to confronting real-time cyberthreats, it is what some businesses are doing – oftentimes without even realizing it. Organizations are increasingly finding themselves targets of cybercrime, carried out by hacktivists, nation states, or financially motivated criminals. In fact, on average...

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    Effective threat intelligence for the financial sector

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    January 11, 2019

    Financial sector CISOs and security teams face a tough challenge. They need to keep the organization  safe from the huge volume of indiscriminate threats that are unfortunately the price of doing business on the internet today. But they must also ensure they’re as resilient as possible to targeted, sophisticated...

    Why threat intelligence helps CISOs make better security decisions

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    November 30, 2018

    In just a few short years, the discipline of threat intelligence (TI) has grown from something on the cutting edge of cybersecurity, to a must-have feature for any CISO serious about effectively managing online risk. Allowing organizations to finally move from a reactive to a proactive posture, it can...

    Top 10 Criteria for Buying the Best Threat Intelligence Solutions

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    November 30, 2018

    CISOs are busy people. The chances are you’re balancing a variety of tasks: from communication with the board, to managing incident response, organization-wide training strategies, and a growing regulatory compliance burden driven by the GDPR and EU NIS Directive. This leaves little time to spend on due diligence to...

    What does threat mitigation mean in practice?

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    November 30, 2018

    Cyber threats have reached epidemic proportions. In the UK for example, nearly half (43%) of all businesses polled by the government in 2018 said they’d suffered a security breach or attack in the previous 12 months — and the real figure could be much higher. One vendor said it...

    Threat intelligence tools your cybersecurity team needs

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    November 30, 2018

    Threat intelligence (TI) is a vital capability for any IT security department. If used effectively, it can offer CISOs the ability to take security from a reactive to a proactive posture, enabling them to better manage cyber risk and support the business-wide digital transformation agenda. But the major caveat...

    How to choose the right Threat Intelligence for your organization

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    November 30, 2018

    Today’s CISOs face an unprecedented range of pressures. They are tasked with creating the secure foundation on which the success of boardroom-led digital transformation efforts rest. They must manage a growing volume and variety of risks across networks, applications, clouds, endpoints, servers and supply chains. And they must do...

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    What is Threat Intelligence and why is it important?

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    November 2, 2018

    Index Introduction What threat intelligence isn’t ‘Data’ ‘Information’ What threat intelligence is? Gathering Processing and actionable delivery Integration, visualization and dissemination Categories of threat intelligence Tactical Operational Strategic When to use threat intelligence Before an attack During an attack After an attack The benefits of real-time, dynamic threat intelligence...

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