Among the due diligence a company should perform when signing with a managed detection and response (MDR) provider, one item that may not be top of mind is who owns custom content developed during the service. You may be surprised to find out it’s often the provider, not you. MDR content ownership becomes an issue when you change providers or bring in-house the monitoring capability.

Trustwave was named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cybersecurity Consulting Services 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc # US50463223, March 2024). The report noted “The acquisition by MC2 Security Fund — the private equity fund of internationally recognized security advisory firm The Chertoff Group — successfully closed in January 2024.

Trustwave today added Threat Intelligence as a Service (TIaaS) to its offensive security portfolio to help organizations better understand the threats they face and provide detailed knowledge and mitigations of their security weaknesses. Trustwave TIaaS provides organizations with timely, contextualized, and prioritized threat intelligence based on factors relevant to their operations, enabling them to make risk-based and threat-informed decisions which benefit their organizations.

Trustwave today announced it will offer clients expert guidance on implementing and fully leveraging the just-released Microsoft Copilot for Security, a generative AI-powered security solution that helps increase the efficiency and capabilities of defenders to improve security outcomes.

This is Part 5 in my ongoing project to cover 30 cybersecurity topics in 30 weekly blog posts. The full series can be found here. The goal of this article is to provide a quick getting started guide to Zero Trust. To understand Zero Trust, it helps to first know a couple of terms: ZTA and ZTMM.

Today's ever-shifting threat landscape demands a multi-pronged approach to cybersecurity. Organizations must go beyond mere compliance by employing a combination of offensive security tactics and frequent testing. This empowers them to effectively manage organizational exposure and protect critical assets from evolving threats such as ransomware.

Trustwave MailMarshal will receive a massive upgrade on March 28 that will add four new levels of functionality, including an improved dashboard interface, the ability to detect and halt malicious QR codes, the ability to scan and divert potentially damaging images, and DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE).

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Let me get straight into it and start things off with what a checksum is to be inclusive of all audiences here, from Wikipedia : “A checksum is a small-sized block of data derived from another block of digital data for the purpose of detecting errors that may have been introduced during its transmission or storage. By themselves, checksums are often used to verify data integrity but are not relied upon to verify data authenticity.”

Anyone who has visited a casino knows these organizations go to a great deal of expense and physical effort to ensure their patrons do not cheat. Still, there is a large group of actors who are uninterested in card counting or using loaded dice at the craps table. In fact, these adversaries don't bother going into the building or even visiting the country where the casino is located. Cyber threat groups.

Malware loaders, critical for deploying malware, enable threat actors to deliver and execute malicious payloads, facilitating criminal activities like data theft and ransomware. Utilizing advanced evasion techniques, loaders bypass security measures and exploit various distribution channels for extensive impact, threat groups enhance their ability to download and execute various malware types as demonstrated by Smoke Loader and GuLoader, highlighting their role in extensive malware distribution.