John Kevin Adriano, Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Researcher Tax season is a busy time of year for taxpayers and threat actors. Consumers and businesses focus on filing their taxes and getting excited over possible refunds, while cybercriminals roll out both their tried-and-true tax scams along with implementing new efforts.
Gartner’s newly released 2023 Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services offers detailed advice to organizations on what capabilities an MDR provider must deliver in order to keep its clients secure. The guide reinforces the notion that a MDR provider must come to the table with a portfolio of strong supporting solutions to deliver an effective and comprehensive security product.
The Trustwave SpiderLabs research team has been tracking a new threat group calling itself Anonymous Sudan, which has carried out a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against Swedish, Dutch, Australian, and German organizations purportedly in retaliation for anti-Muslim activity that had taken place in those countries.
Trustwave has inked a channel partnership deal with Intelisys, one of the nation's leading providers of technology services and solutions, that will allow its network of more than 1,700 sales partners to offer Trustwave security consulting, managed detection and response (MDR), threat hunting, co-managed SOC, database security, and email security to their client base.
Since it was first released to the public late last year, ChatGPT has successfully captured the attention of many. OpenAI’s large language model chatbot is intriguing for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the manner in which it responds to human users. ChatGPT’s language usage resembles that of an experienced professional. But while its responses are delivered with unshakeable confidence, its content is not always as impressive.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the repository for a wealth of knowledge dating back to the nation's founding. The information behind many of the world's greatest inventions ranging from the light bulb, iPhone, Maglev trains to the zipper are housed and protected by the USPTO. A task that is now considerably more difficult as the primary storage medium moves from paper to on-premises and into the cloud.
Trustwave’s MailMarshal received a major update this month with the addition of PageML to the Blended Threat Module. The BTM enables the email security solution to conduct in-depth, real-time scans when a URL in an email is clicked to determine if the URL is malicious. PageML boosts the BTM’s ability to detect malicious URLs by one-third by applying machine learning techniques to page content in real time. The new scanning feature is named PageML, short for Page Machine Learning.
The well-respected industry analyst firm Gartner named Trustwave as a Representative Vendor in its just released 2023 Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services.
Ensuring employees operate securely regardless of location has grown in importance over the last several years as the number of people working remotely has exploded. These workers are most likely operating within a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). They use SD-WAN to work with data that is now processed more and more in many different cloud services.
Trustwave and Trellix have entered a strategic partnership that will see the two premier cybersecurity companies deliver best-in-class Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions to enterprise-class organizations. The partnership will begin with Trustwave's innovative MDR services on Trellix EDR products, which will result in these clients receiving unrivaled threat visibility and the ability to detect and respond to threats faster and more precisely.
