What is EDR?EDR stands for Endpoint Detection & Response. These tools are security solutions designed to help security teams detect malicious activity on endpoints, understand the chain of attack, and enable administrators to respond appropriately. To truly understand the value of EDR you first have to understand how traditional anti-virus searches and identifies threats. Anti-Virus tools tag known viruses with a signature that uniquely identifies a specific virus. Then when scanning a syste ...

ObserveIT has released its next major version 7.0. The company’s mission has always been to identify & eliminate insider threat by focusing on what the user is doing vs what a system or a computer is doing. The 7.0 release reflects this ideology by enhancing its user interface, bolstering its detection capabilities, adding preventative controls, and providing insight with user analytics.New User InterfaceObserveIT 7.0 introduces a fresh feel and makes the already seamless UI even ...

WikiLeaks recently began a new series of leaks on the United States Central Intelligence Agency, codenamed Vault 7. It is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the CIA—and, according to WikiLeaks, “eclipses the total number of pages published over the first three years of the Edward Snowden NSA leaks.”   WikiLeaks tweeted the leak, and claims the information came from a network inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virgini ...

Every organization strives to have the best cyber security possible, but with the number of data breaches from insiders in the headlines today, keeping up-to-date with new security practices to implement is crucial. It can also be time-consuming. So, assuming you have the basics down: encrypting data, firewalls, etc., the best practices outlined below for 2017 are items you may not have previously considered, but definitely should. Check out the list of these best practices for cyber security as ...

ObserveIT is a proud sponsor of RSA®Conference 2017. If you are attending, we’d welcome the opportunity to meet you. We’ll show you how ObserveIT can help your organization identify and eliminate insider threats from high-risk employees, third party contractors, vendors, privileged users and business users. We’ll share why more than 1,400 customers worldwide, like Verizon, Starbucks, and Brown Brothers Harriman have chosen ObserveIT to identify and eliminate insider threats.Stop by booth& ...

With data breaches and data theft occurring more quickly and with more sophistication than ever before, protecting your organization against cybersecurity threats has likely proven increasingly difficult. Companies have commonly focused a majority of resources on protecting against malicious outsiders. And, while hacking and phishing are still a major cause for concern, it’s insiders—trusted employees, contractors and vendors—that have become the most cited culprits of cybercrime. The ...

The greatest cyber security threat to organizations is no longer the malicious outsider hacking from beyond network firewalls. As research shows, it’s the insiders—those already within the firewalls—who pose the largest risk. In 2015, 55% of cyber attacks were carried out by insiders, according to IBM. As the number of insider attacks increases, savvy companies are crafting policies to thwart them. Based on conversations with hundreds of customers and industry experts, here are 5 Insi ...

Companies spend an exorbitant amount of time trying to protect their data and systems from outsiders. Between firewalls and scanners, malware detection and prevention, employee education and other security protocols, organizations can dedicate countless resources to cybersecurity measures. Think about this: Are you accounting for the people who are already inside? You must think about employees and contractors with access to the organization's systems when you consider the ways to protect t ...

NISPOM Conforming Change 2 was released May 21, 2016: The Department of Defense published Change 2 to DoD 5220.22-M, “National Industrial Security Operating Manual (NISPOM).” NISPOM Change 2 requires contractors to establish and maintain an insider threat program to detect, deter and mitigate insider threats. Specifically, the program must gather, integrate, and report relevant and credible information covered by any of the 13 personnel security adjudicative guidelines that is indicative ...

6 Common IT Troubleshooting Blind Spots IT teams deal with security incidents every day, despite investing heavily in the most advanced cybersecurity tools.  Whether it’s malicious or well intentioned, your employees, vendors and other trusted users may be actively working in security blind spots that cannot be monitored by the security tools in which you’ve invested. When malware is accidentally downloaded, or files are deleted, or sensitive information is sent via web mail, how ...