Insights & Perspectives

    IDC’s Top Insights Around Purple Teaming

    May 25, 2022
    Why adopt purple teaming? This IDC analyst brief explains how blending red and blue mindsets helps you holistically prepare for cyberattacks.
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    Integrations – Vectra

    April 18, 2022
    AttackIQ has released a new integration for use with network based scenarios. This blog describes use cases, scenarios one can utilize and what indicators we look for when determining a match.
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    5 Reasons You Don’t Want to Miss Purple Hats Conference 2022

    April 11, 2022
    The award-winning Purple Hats Conference is the industry destination for cybersecurity practitioners around the globe to collaborate, share ideas, and learn how to evolve cybersecurity strategies from a reactive to proactive threat-informed defense. We’re just days away from the best “cyberforum of the year” and you won’t want to miss it—and there’s still time to join. Here we’re breaking down for you five reasons you don’t want to miss Purple Hats.
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    2021 Impact Report

    The Center for Threat-Informed Defense: Impacting the Public Good

    February 9, 2022
    The Center for Threat-Informed Defense is transforming the practice of cybersecurity and elevating security teams’ performance all over the world. This blog post looks at research highlights from Center’s retrospective 2021 Impact Report, explains why the Center is so important to us at AttackIQ, and shows security teams how to elevate their program performance using a range of free educational resources derived from the Center’s research.
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    The trick to handling ransomware: prepare  

    January 19, 2022
    Ransomware is a vexing challenge and attacks have doubled since 2020, but there is a path out of the problem. In this new guide, Countering Ransomware with MITRE ATT&CK, AttackIQ outlines clear, practical steps to test and validate that your security program performs against ransomware. The trick is to prepare, and the path to follow is a threat-informed defense. Check it out and come join us for a technical demonstration of our ransomware capabilities on January 27.
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    Boards need to form a dedicated cybersecurity committee that can stay deeply engaged

    The Boardroom Isn’t Ready for the Next SolarWinds

    January 13, 2022
    Attacks like Log4j, SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline have board rooms across the nation questioning their preparedness in combating cybersecurity risks. What can boards do now to be more effective for the next big attack?
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    Getting ahead of Log4Shell

    Getting Ahead of Log4Shell-enabled Cyberattacks: New Attack Scenarios and Technical Recommendations

    December 20, 2021
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    10 Things You May Not Know About Purple Teaming 

    October 27, 2021
    We’re familiar with red teaming and blue teaming, but have you heard about purple teaming? This blog dives into facts you may not be aware of around this new team construct meant to foster collaboration between red and blue teams for a stronger cybersecurity practice.
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    Don’t treat cybersecurity hygiene like your car engine light

    October 21, 2021
    ESG has just released the key findings of its cybersecurity hygiene and posture management survey, and in a poll of 400 cybersecurity professionals in North American enterprises, the number one action respondents said would improve cybersecurity hygiene? You guessed it: continuous security control validation.
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    What To Do in the Case of Brand Reputation Impersonation

    October 15, 2021
    Recently, AttackIQ was notified that an Iranian threat actor had created a fake domain and fraudulent website (attackiq[.]ir) impersonating AttackIQ and abusing the company brand. This blog is an account of what happened and how AttackIQ responded, and it aims to provide insights to help organizations prepare to deal with similar Brand Reputation Abuse situations.
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    “Zero Trust But Validate.” It’s not enough to deploy a zero trust architecture. You need to continuously validate that it works.

    October 4, 2021
    To echo a famous Russian proverb, “trust but verify,” it’s not enough to implement a zero trust architecture. Continuous testing is the only way to achieve real cybersecurity readiness.
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    Is Your Healthcare Organization Following These Four Ransomware Best Practices?

    August 24, 2021
    Healthcare is the most targeted sector for data breaches, and ransomware attacks were responsible for almost 50 percent of all healthcare data breaches in 2020. How should healthcare companies proceed? Our guest blogger in this ransomware series is Tracy Cohen, a cybersecurity expert with over a decade of experience managing cybersecurity risk in the healthcare and biopharma sector. She is also a licensed skydiver,
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    Standing Up for Our Principles: AttackIQ Signs the Respect In Security

    August 16, 2021
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    Teamwork Making the Dream Work!

    August 13, 2021
    Why I’m Particularly Proud AttackIQ Made the 2021 Fortune Great Place to Work List
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    Healthcare Under Siege: Should Hospitals Pay Hackers Ransom?

    August 9, 2021
    In 2020, three of the top 10 most searched terms were, unsurprisingly, healthcare-related. (Coronavirus, coronavirus update, coronavirus symptoms.) We’ve never been so attuned to what’s happening in our healthcare systems and hospitals.
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    Purple Teaming for Cybersecurity Effectiveness: 10 Lessons

    July 29, 2021
    How do you improve your security posture by standing up a purple team strategy? Here are 10 important things to keep in mind from the Purple Teaming for Dummies eBook.
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    How purple team operations helped defend the Pentagon — and can help your security team today.

    July 16, 2021
    The purple team construct is changing cybersecurity for the better. Here is how you build, lead, and manage effective purple team operations.
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    How to Pitch Your CFO on Automated Security Control Validation

    July 9, 2021
    CFOs are often perceived as gatekeepers to the company’s cash coffers. With different functional leaders vying for project investments, it is true that the role of the CFO is to help prioritize the company’s spend, based on the business growth plan and trajectory.
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    Purple Hats 2021: It was an Event “Brimming” with Cybersecurity Goodness

    June 24, 2021
    This past week, AttackIQ launched its inaugural Purple Hats Conference—where more than 3,000 cybersecurity practitioners, partners, and pros joined to collaborate, share ideas, and learn how to evolve from a reactive to proactive threat informed defense strategy.
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    10 Ways to Apply the MITRE ATT&CK Framework in Your Cybersecurity Strategy

    June 22, 2021
    There are a number of ways that the MITRE ATT&CK framework can be used in your cybersecurity practice. Here are 10 of the most important as laid out in the MITRE ATT&CK for Dummies eBook.
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    Risky Business #624 — AttackIQ’s Mark Bagley and Jonathan Reiber talk with Patrick Gray of Risky Biz about how to solve the ransomware problem

    May 19, 2021
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    AttackIQ and MITRE Engenuity’s Center for Threat Informed Defense are “sighting” ATT&CK techniques in the wild. Come and help.

    April 26, 2021
    The goal is greater visibility and effectiveness.
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    The U.S. Government Needs to Overhaul Cybersecurity. Here’s How.

    April 9, 2021
    In advance of the new Biden administration cybersecurity executive order, it’s time for the federal government to get proactive about cybersecurity. Deploying a validated zero trust architecture for the U.S. government’s most critical high-value assets is an aggressive but achievable goal.
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    Breach and Attack Simulation, Unlike Shoulder Pads, Mullets, and Parachute Pants, is a Trend That is Here to Stay

    April 6, 2021
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