Ransomware is here, and it’s not going away. Criminals are making money at an alarming rate with little resistance. There have been more ransomware variants in the last 18 months than all of the 29 previous years. By using ransomware, cyber criminals have had a free run at organizations’ critical data. In addition, ransomware variants ...

Application control, sometimes called application whitelisting, is a means for controlling the software applications that can be run on a given computer or device. Application control flips the security paradigm of blacklisting on its head. Rather than trying to prevent bad software from running, application control allows only good software to run. By reading this ...

According to Carbon Black data, attackers are holding data for ransom at an alarming rate and are continuing to deploy attacks across every industry. In conjunction with the rise of ransomware and the continued ubiquity of mass malware, attackers are increasingly utilizing non-malware attacks in an attempt to remain undetected and persistent on organizations’ enterprises. ...