20 April 2017 | The security software market is transforming through four vectors: analytics, adoption of SaaS and managed services, expanded ecosystems, and regulations. Technology business unit leaders must realign their product and go-to-market strategies to address these key forces….
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This document helps product developers and managers of security providers prepare enterprise firewall and unified threat management products for the impact of digital business, mobile and the Internet of Things on end-user buying behavior….
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CIOs worldwide should realize that Spain has a substantial number of IT providers with cutting-edge innovative offerings, with strong involvement in digital business and transcending to international markets.
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The UTM market grew 18% to $2 billion in 2015, with strongest growth in Emerging Asia/Pacific and Greater China. Hillstone Networks and Huawei had the largest growth. Strategic planners should pay attention to these providers and higher-growth regions and adjust business objectives accordingly. … …
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http://fortune.com/2015/07/29/crowdstrike-cybersecurity-george-kurtz/ By Robert Hackett @rhhackett Fortune.com July 29, 2015 It’s not every day that a company can compel hackers to give up. Yet that’s exactly what CrowdStrike managed to do earlier this year. CEO and co-founder George Kurtz tells it like this: A besieged customer needed backup. So Kurtz’s team sent in reinforcements, placed its cloud-based software sensors across the breached business’s computing environment, and started gathering intel. Aha! Investigators spotted Hurricane Panda, an old Chinese nemesis that Kurtz’s crew had been battling since 2013. What happened next surprised them: When the attackers scanned an infected machine only to find traces of CrowdStrike, they fled. CrowdStrike’s reputation precedes it. The company, founded in 2011 and based in Irvine, Calif., has gone toe-to-toe with some of the world’s most sophisticated state-sponsored hacking groups. The firm analyzed the data behind the breaches of millions of sensitive records at the Office of Personnel Management, the federal agency responsible for human resources, in what may have been the biggest act of cyberespionage the U.S. has ever seen. It has published threat reports on many of the more than 50 adversaries it tracks, which include the likes of Ghost Jackal (the Syrian Electronic Army), Viceroy Tiger (an Indian intruder), and Andromeda Spider (a criminal coterie). Between 2013 and 2014 its revenue grew 142% and its customer base more than tripled, two reasons Google Capital GOOG 0.63% , the tech giant’s growth equity arm, led a $100 million investment in CrowdStrike in July, its first ever for a computer security company. Kurtz used to travel hundreds of thousands of miles a year as CTO of McAfee, now called Intel Security INTC 0.17% , to meet with beleaguered customers. It struck him that they did not need more anti-malware and antivirus products, the traditional realm of information security, so much as software oriented toward tradecraft and technique, the domain of cyberspies. Co-founder and CTO Dmitri Alperovitch, then McAfee’s head of threat intelligence, agreed. […]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/27/plague_scanner_box_offers_invisibility_cloak_to_white_hats_vxers/ By Darren Pauli The Register 27 Jul 2015 Security researcher Robert Simmons has released a tool that offers a new level of stealth to the malware cat-and-mouse skirmish by shrouding binary analysis. “Plague Scanner” is a free on-premise anti-virus framework – a class of tool that drives multiple anti-virus scanners at once – and is the only free alternative to commercial frameworks or online systems. It can help businesses to analyse malware containing potentially sensitive corporate information, or black hats to test their wares without exposing either to traditional public web services like VirusTotal. Simmons (@MalwareUtkonos) says the only commercial on-premise multiple antivirus scanners worth their salt are hugely expensive and out of the range of small to medium businesses, independent researchers, and probably black hats. […]
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20150726/NEWS/307269992/survey-nearly-1-in-4-it-firms-suffered-security-breach By TOM HENDERSON Crain’s Detroit Business July 26, 2015 Twenty-three percent of executives at technology companies say their firms have suffered a security breach in the past 12 months, according to the national annual Technology Industry Business Outlook survey conducted by KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm. Three-fourths of executives surveyed say their companies will spend between 1 percent and 5 percent of annual revenue on IT security in the next 12 months. “The survey findings on security are an important marker, since tech companies are the pacesetters in IT security. How much and where tech companies spend on IT security, and how successful they are, can serve as guides for all other industries,” Gary Matuszak, global chairman of KPMG’s technology, media and telecommunications practice, said in a release. The KPMG survey was of upper managers at 111 U.S.-based technology companies. Of the respondents, 54 percent were in companies with revenue of more than $1 billion a year, with the rest at companies with annual revenue between $100 million and $1 billion. […]
Deception techniques such as honeypots are not a new concept in security; however, new techniques and capabilities promise to deliver game-changing impact on how threats are faced. This research articulates how product managers can successfully use threat deception as a threat response tactic.
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