Cybersecurity threats like supply chain attacks targeting developers are on the rise. Learn how application control and containment, particularly AppGuard, can balance security and developer flexibility, restrict what runs, and protect sensitive data. Discover the pros and cons of allow/deny lists, launch prohibition vs. containment, and the importance of isolation rules for a robust developer environment security strategy.

A sophisticated Phishing campaign targeting Microsoft 365 users is exploiting trusted infrastructure to bypass email security. Victims are tricked into calling fake support numbers, leading to the installation of stealer malware on their Windows machines. When email security fails, then more attacks reach the next typical line of defense, AV/EDR/XDR. Combine the social engineering with EDR/XDR weaknesses, any enterprise will wake up to a nightmare when these threat actors phish them. Unless, the enterprise deploys an additional layer of endpoint protection that does not employ any form of pattern-matching to detect malware. Instead, that layer employs controls-based protection that blocks what the malware needs to do despite it all.

Cyber threats are increasingly targeting port and shipping operations, with traditional antivirus (AV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions often failing to stop sophisticated attacks. Recent incidents have shown that ransomware can cause massive disruptions, affecting global supply chains. This blog post delves into why existing defenses fall short and how enhancing malware protection can safeguard against these evolving threats.

The CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability reported in an Apache library known as “Log4j” affects numerous products and cloud services across the Internet that leverage Apache. Organizations with vulnerable servers can be confident that AppGuard can help protect them from the effects of ensuing attacks.

AppGuard joined its partner Cipher at the FinCyber Today event on 3 November 2021. Cipher delivered an informative demo of how to detect, stop and respond to a cyberattack. Overall, the conference featured prominent subject matter experts in cybersecurity sharing insights and recommendations with attendees.

Zero-day attacks, breaches due to missing patches, weaponized documents, drive-by downloads, and some code injections are examples of AppJacking. Read about the AppJacking concepts to understand better ways to mitigate these risks using Zero Trust principles within endpoints.

The files within your endpoint folders can hurt you. Enterprises need to supplement their detection-based defenses with tools that do not have to recognize malicious files to defeat them. This blog strives to explain to executives what their technical people need them to understand about other layers of protection that can mitigate these risks.

Living off the land (LOL) malware attack techniques use legitimate operating system (OS) utilities already on targeted hosts to breach enterprises. This blog post provides non-technical folk an introduction to this challenge, including high-level pros and cons of some remedies.

Over reliance on detection technologies for mitigating malware risks negatively taxes enterprises in two ways: successful malware attacks and higher cyber operations costs. Here we look qualitatively at cyber operations costs to help answer the question: what would be alleviated if far more malware attacks were neutralized at the endpoint in real-time by adding non-detection protection capabilities.

Industry analysts say that enterprises rely solely or mostly on detection-based cyber defense technologies. Their reports also demonstrate why detection-based tools alone are not enough. This blog focuses explains why detection is missing the mark. It concludes with a brief introduction of what the enterprise needs and the steps to get it.