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Application whitelisting is a common technique used to prevent execution of unknown or potentially malicious applications. However, this technique can be bypassed if not implemented correctly.

Published on: August 17, 2017
The massive escalation of cyber-attacks and subsequent continued successful breaches necessitates that security professionals take a strategic pause. Current cyber defensive operations continue to suffer from protection failures and missed attacker incursions resulting in significant economic loss and/or degradation of capabilities.

To combat WannaCry ransomware, identify your attack surface, contain, and test against known threats.

Well folks, we’ve been thrilled by the response that we’ve received to our GameOn! Security Challenge since it launched around Black Hat / DEF CON in late July. We’ve got 55 active players so far in various stages of scenario development and submission, covering a broad range of industries, job titles, and experience levels. We’re excited to see the active participation from a good number of students as well, aspiring security professionals who can put their ideas to work and test their effectiveness today even without an IT department or a access to high-end security tools.

When we started AttackIQ almost three years ago, there was no automated platform to validate that the assumptions you had about your security program were working as assumed. So we began the journey to enable organizations to test, measure and verify the effectiveness of security infrastructure, policies and processes and do this in such a way it could be automated and orchestrated. Along the way we started to create a community amongst our customers. The platform was growing stronger with every user who depended on it to help make data-driven security decisions. A core principle from Day 1 at AttackIQ was to create FireDrill as an open platform...