Jonathan Barrett is the Director of the Consulting Analysts Team at Vectra, where he oversees Vectra’s Consulting Analyst organization. His team delivers the Sidekick MDR and training services. Before joining Vectra, Jonathan worked in the United States Intelligence and Defense communities as a senior red team operator and cyber incident responder respectively.
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Ransomware is a common type of cyber attack that may target individuals and businesses alike. Device users of any kind must be aware of the different types of ransomware attacks and how to prevent them.
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Cyber threat actors come in a variety of forms. Though they result in unwanted damage, their tactics, goals, and methods of attack differ. Avoiding being a victim begins with understanding the types of cybercriminals, their behaviors, goals, and motivations.
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It's only human to focus on external threats to your well-being. This often applies to organizations and their approaches to security as well; which is why so much energy is typically put into perimeter security. Yet, this approach is antithetical to the zero-trust methodology: Organizations must also pay attention to internal-to-internal and internal-to-external traffic just as much as traffic coming in.
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Introducing Sidekick MDR for VECTRA customers with 24*7 eyes-on-glass service leveraging cloud-scale analytics of the VECTRA Cognito platform to enable security teams to meaningfully detect and respond to ransomware, nation-state and insider attacks.
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Learn why a successful implementation of a Zero Trust Architecture requires a modern network detection and response solution that can collect metadata about encrypted traffic-without relying on the overhead of agents.
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National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) publication for the Zero Trust Architecture (NIST SP 800-207) relies heavily on continuous and accurate monitoring. Find out why network detection and response (NDR) is a required component.
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COVID-19 has caused a sudden and immediate shift of employees who would normally work in an office to a remote location that will naturally create a shift in internal movement of network traffic. The outcome will be a change of internal network traffic patterns in which attackers could hide their own communication.
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According to NIST, "No enterprise can completely eliminate cybersecurity risk. When complemented with existing cybersecurity policies and guidance, identity and access management, continuous monitoring, and general cyber hygiene, ZTA can reduce overall risk exposure and protect against common threats."
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