The past three years have been challenging in many ways for the retail industry, and this uncertain reality isn’t going anywhere. The industry continues to face challenges; the cost-of-living and energy crisis, and expected period of economic downturn, are understandably unsettling for all sectors, with retail particularly hard hit in a recessionary period.

Managed NDR is network detection and response (NDR) combined with an outsourced SOC (Security Operations Center) monitoring and response layer. The meaning of “managed” in managed NDR will vary from provider to provider. Some managed NDR services will remediate threats for you, while others will stop at alerting and assisting your internal IT team. Similarly, the capabilities of the “NDR” part of managed NDR will also differ depending on who offers it.

In our new threat briefing report, Forescout’s Vedere Labs provides details on the recent ransomware campaign targeting VMware ESXi virtualization servers, or hypervisors, and analyzes two payloads used in these attacks: variants of the Royal and Clop ransomware. We also present the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by attackers in this campaign, discuss mitigation recommendations and list indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be used for detection or threat hunting.

Firewall optimization (also known as firewall analysis) is the process of analyzing and adjusting the configuration and policy set of a firewall to improve performance and security. This process involves reviewing and corelating log data and device configurations, identifying potential vulnerabilities and weaknesses, and providing recommendations for remediation. Performing these processes is complex, which is why tools like firewall analyzers are useful.

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) acts as a vital bridge between the world of IP addresses and MAC addresses, allowing devices on local area networks to seek out each other's physical address based solely on their IP. ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) can also be defined as a communication protocol used to map a network layer address (such as an IP address) to a link layer address (such as a MAC address).