Managing Threat Detection and Response for Securing AWS

Workers in finance know more than workers in other industries about cubersecurity, according to a report from Proofpoint. After analyzing more than 100 million answers to cybersecurity questions from employees in 16 industries, Proofpoint found that finance workers answered 80% of questions correctly. Transportation and education sector workers had the least knowledge among the various sectors, answering 24% of questions correctly on average, Proofpoint determined.

Managed detection and response (MDR) solutions identify active threats across an organization and then respond to eliminate, investigate, or contain them. MDR has increased in visibility and importance as organizations realize that no level of investment will provide 100% protection against threats and as the scale and complexit

Understanding your complex cloud environment is tricky. Workloads, containers, and serverless functions are added and removed constantly. Vulnerabilities are endless. Security staff is in short supply. But here’s the reality: cloud security is built in incremental steps. And process improvement involves multiple stakeholders — not just security teams.

2016 may have been “The Year of the Fileless Attack” and 2017 may have been “The Year of Ransomware,” but 2018 was, in many respects, “The Year of the Next-Gen Cyberattack." These attacks are increasingly being fueled by geopolitical tension and reveal how clever attackers have become in evolving to remain undetected — using techniques such as lateral movement, island hopping and counter incident response to stay invisible. Join our discussion on the latest in threat intelligence including: The most prevalent ransomware and commodity malware families during the past year. Why we're seeing increases in nation-state cyberattacks.