Honoring The Heroes Of Cybersecurity
Honoring The Heroes Of Cybersecurity
Shifting Perspectives: Recognizing Cybersecurity Heroes
In an industry where some tend to romanticize cyber threat groups, however, we opt for a different perspective.
Standing Firm with Bitdefender: Supporting Cybersecurity Heroes
We stand firmly behind the champions of cybersecurity. Specifically, the dedicated team at Bitdefender tirelessly strive to fortify businesses, non-profits, and government organizations against digital threats.
Honoring Unsung Heroes: Paying Homage to Cybersecurity Champions
Our aim is to honor and pay homage to these unsung heroes of the digital realm. To achieve this, we offer them something unique and enjoyable to showcase their invaluable contributions.
Introducing the Guardians: Meet Bitdefender’s Cybersecurity Heroes
ZAL: The Security Engineer
ZAL, the Security Engineer, stands on the left. Equipped with extensive knowledge and experience, they equip the team with precise tools and weaponry in their quest to discover and eliminate hackers.
MIRA: The Threat Researcher
MIRA, floating above the rest, embodies the role of the Threat Researcher. Leveraging a deep and intimate understanding of data and the threat landscape, they support the team of cyber defenders.
DÁOS: The Security Analyst
Positioned on the right, DÁOS assumes the mantle of the Security Analyst. Utilizing precise targeting abilities, they investigate leads and eliminate adversaries, traps, tools, and bots with unwavering determination.
HERC: The Threat Hunter
Finally, leading from the front, HERC emerges as the Threat Hunter. Drawing upon expertise in both quarry and environment, they track down and capture hackers wherever they may lurk.
Celebrating Courage and Resilience
Through these characters, we celebrate the dedication, skill, and unwavering commitment of those who stand on the frontlines of cybersecurity. With their courage and resilience, they safeguard our digital world.
Why are Companies increasing their investment in Application Security?
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Darktrace Acquires Cybersprint
DARKTRACE ACQUIRES ATTACK SURFACE MANAGEMENT COMPANY CYBERSPRINT
Full aquisition details from London Stock Exchange available here –
· Consideration of €47.5m to be paid in cash and equity
· Cybersprint’s technology and external data highly complementary to Darktrace product set
· Additive to Darktrace’s new ‘Prevent’ product suite underpinned by Attack Path Modeling
· Darktrace gains an additional European R&D Centre based in The Hague, Netherlands
· Target completion date on or around 1 March, 2022
Cybersprint’s attack surface management data can enrich existing Darktrace Detect and Respond products with external vulnerability data and accelerate the company’s market entry into new areas like proactive AI cyber security. For example, this capability will be introduced as a new module in the Prevent product family, feeding organisation-specific web data to Darktrace’s Attack Path Modeling technology. See additional information on Darktrace’s Prevent Product suite and Attack Path Modeling technology here.
Through this acquisition, Darktrace gains a second European R&D Centre in The Hague, Netherlands, joining forces with its world-class, Cambridge-based mathematicians and software engineers. Cybersprint’s employees bring a deep understanding of how to continuously model real-time internet data as well as ethical hacking expertise.
Are you in a similar Cyber Boat?
Similar Cyber Boat?
These phrases are coming up as Hybrid work continues into 2022:
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We’re lean on resource; if anything gets through our stack 24/7 real-time detection and response isn’t possible.
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Alerts are everywhere across Endpoint, Email and 0365/Cloud, we want one prioritized pane of glass
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What if the next Log4j hits us? How do we mitigate impact?
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End users remain our biggest risk
If any resonate, a conversation with our partner, Darktrace, could make sense.
They’re able to have 24/7 detection and response for their hybrid workforce by using self-learning AI that understands ‘on the job’ normal business activity. It means they stop sophisticated cyber threats (ransomware, zero-days, social engineering, account compromise) in real-time while preventing operational disruption.
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Major bank: Acunetix scans multiple applications automatically
Major bank: Acunetix scans multiple applications automatically
Taken from: https://www.acunetix.com/case-studies/major-bank-acunetix-lets-us-scan-many-applications-automatically/
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I Gaming Case Study - Darktrace
HBG Gaming
Business Background
HBG Gaming is a leading gaming company, providing a host of games to Italian consumers including traditional slot machines, video lotteries, bingo, betting and importantly online games – poker, casino and skill games. The company works closely with the Italian government to ensure the safe management of a large customer base with a combined 4,800 VLTs and 36,000 slot machines in 2015.
By leveraging innovative machine learning, Darktrace’s solution puts businesses like ours ahead in this new age of harmful threats.
Marcello David, Head of IT Security & Compliance
Challenge
As broadband services expand and Internet gaming diversifies across smartphones, tablets and other devices, the industry is increasingly exposed to sophisticated cyber attacks. Securing customers’ personal and financial details is vital for HBG Gaming to provide a reliable gaming service and maintain it’s position as a trusted brand.
Criminals are continually innovating new ways to execute internal and external attacks, adopting increasingly intelligent technologies to breach networks. To better defend against this next-generation risk and identify emerging threats early, HBG Gaming requires in-depth visibility of its digital infrastructure. The company possesses a number of standard border securities including anti-virus software, web gateways and event management tools, but has found none of them provide adequate analytics and are often complex and time-consuming to install.
Solution
HBG Gaming chose Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System in order to understand its network’s ‘pattern of life’ and identify abnormal behaviors, before they cause business damage. The company decided to deploy a ‘Proof of Value’ over a four-week period to test how Darktrace’s unique self-learning technology could alert its security team to real, emerging threats already in its network. Powered by machine learning and mathematics, Darktrace has the capability to monitor the behaviours of every network, device, and user to detect even the subtlest anomaly. Unlike traditional defenses that rely on rules and signatures to recognise attacks, Darktrace models a network’s ‘pattern of life’ and is able to distinguish suspicious behaviors that deviate from the norm. Thus, in this new era of pernicious attacks, Darktrace equips HBG Gaming with an advanced solution able to detect unfamiliar threats that would otherwise go unnoticed by legacy systems.
Benefits
Within weeks Darktrace could identify suspicious behavior in HBG Gaming’s network, like ransomware, with potentially serious implications. The Enterprise Immune System alerts the business’ security team early, allowing them to take
action and mitigate risk before it becomes a serious issue. The immune system approach is now fundamental to HBG Gaming’s cyber security strategy. Darktrace only flags the genuinely suspicious events rather than bombarding security personnel with false positives, allowing HBG Gaming’s teams to prioritize and optimize its resources more effectively. Darktrace’s Threat Visualizer provides a 3D display of all network activity in real time. This intuitive interface enables nontechnical senior executives – the most vulnerable to attacks –
to gain meaningful insight into their network behaviours and implement stronger defenses across the company. “By leveraging innovative machine learning, Darktrace’s solution puts businesses like ours ahead in this new age of harmful threats.”
“Darktrace enhances our cyber security strategy beyond protecting our company borders, and has already detected potentially damaging threats inside our networks,” said
Marcello David, Head of IT Security & Compliance, HBG Gaming.
Changing Cyber Landscapes - The Battle of Algorithms
Among rapidly evolving technological advancements, the emergence of AI-enhanced malware is making cyber-attacks exponentially more perilous.
In this session, learn about:
- Paradigm shifts in the cyber landscape.
- Advancements in offensive AI attack techniques.
- The Immune System Approach to cyber security and defensive, Autonomous Response capabilities .
- Real-world examples of emerging threats that were stopped with Cyber AI.
- Demos of Darktrace Enterprise Immune system & Antigena Email in action.
Contact us directly for more information.
Monitor your Diabetes with Ticwatch
The Introduction of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Devices and Smartwatch Readers in Malta for children with Diabetes.
According to the International Diabetes Federation, 10.1% of all 20-79 year olds in Malta suffer from Diabetes. This places Malta in the first quartile within the European region. In recent times we have also seen a spike in the incidence of children who have Diabetes. We are seeing an increase of around 25 patients per year as the official statistics from the office of the deputy prime minister state.
The Government recently launched a programme whereby wearable glucose monitors have been handed out to all children with type 1 diabetes.
Wearable glucose monitors will be handed out to all children under 16 with type 1 diabetes, Health Minister Chris Fearne has announced. The device, which can be worn on the stomach, arm or back, will helps around 160 children manage their condition by monitoring glucose levels and transmitting data to an app which can be read on their phone or through a smartwatch.
Introducing Ticwatch for Diabetes Campaign
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We are keen to offer this feature for children with Diabetes and currently in stock we have the Ticwatch Pro 3 GPS and Ticwatch C2 Plus. Data sheets for these products can be downloaded below.
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NATO to Pass a Policy In order to Protect and Counter against Cyber Attacks
Recent Political Events & Darktrace Governmental Cyber AI Programme
One of the main points of discussion in the recent meeting between Russian president Vladimir Putin and U.S president Joe Biden was the Cybersecurity space. The leaders seemed to agree on an alliance in order to combat ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure. In response, NATO has drawn up a new Cyber Defence Policy which has been backed after a summit in Brussels.
This policy has brought to light the importance of cybersecurity and the advancements that hacking organisations have made being able to target the most powerful Governments and entities in the world.
Our partners Darktrace have been at the forefront of this problem with government organisations all over the world, including here in Malta. Having deployed the technology to safeguard their environment. Darktrace uses AI to detect and respond to novel and sophisticated threats – from fast-moving ransomware to low-and-slow data ex-filtration.
Darktrace protects more than 270 government and defence organizations globally:
✔ Detects in-progress attacks with
self-learning AI technology.
✔ Stops emerging cyber-threats in
an average of 2 seconds.
✔ Reduces time to meaning by up
to 92%.
Primary Security Challenges
The task of sustaining normal functionality amid a global pandemic has considerably strained governments on a local, state, and national level. Alongside ensuring that public services and infrastructure – such as utilities, healthcare, and transportation – remain operational, governmental bodies have had to contend with additional challenges: implementing national contact tracing programs, enabling research into vaccines and treatments, as well as providing financial assistance to citizens. Securing the systems that facilitate these services is of vital importance. Additionally, like many organizations over the past year, government offices have had to transition to remote working. The usual cyber risks associated with working from home environments – such as rapid shifts in digital infrastructure and workforce behavior, as well as cyber espionage over video conference and hacked smart home devices – are particularly concerning in the government and defence sector due to the sensitive nature of the data and information that it controls.
How Cyber AI Safeguards Government and Defence Organizations
Proven to protect hundreds of government and defence organizations, Darktrace Cyber AI defends digital data and vital systems from threat – no matter how novel or sophisticated. As a self-learning technology, the AI is able to identify and respond to fast-moving ransomware at an early stage without relying on prior attack data, and operates across SaaS, cloud, IoT, email, endpoints, OT technology, and the traditional network. Inspired by the principles of the human immune system, Darktrace works by learning what ‘normal’ looks like for every user, device, and virtual machine in an organization’s dynamic workforce.
This understanding of ‘self’ allows the AI to spot the subtlest indicators of malicious activity as they emerge, instantly flagging them to security teams, and autonomously responding to neutralize the threat at machine speed. Darktrace Cyber AI Analyst augments teams during fast-moving attacks by autonomously investigating, triaging, and reporting on each security incident. This technology provides actionable intelligence via natural language reports that can be translated to various levels of technical detail – ultimately reducing time to meaning by up to 92%.
Autonomously Defending Against Eking Ransomware At a governmental organization in APAC, Darktrace detected an example of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS). With Darktrace, the defenders were able to recognize the anomalous behavior as soon as it occurred and stop the threat from advancing, while Cyber AI Analyst autonomously investigated and reported on every stage of the incident.
The attack started when a corporate device was infected with Eking. Darktrace’s self-learning AI detected and alerted on this threat immediately, picking up on internal reconnaissance activity, SMB enumeration, and extensive scanning. Once the scanning was complete, files were encrypted on a second server, with the infected device transitioning from making just a few internal connections per day to making thousands in less than an hour.
While Darktrace’s alerts and investigations empowered the team to take action straight away, this all this occurred late at night local time – when the security team were out of office. As it was, they were still able to act faster than they otherwise would have and limit the damage when they arrived in the morning. Had Darktrace Antigena been deployed, the AI would have autonomously taken action at the first stage of the attack and prevented encryption occurring.
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