Marcus Hartwig

Marcus Hartwig

Director, Product Marketing

Marcus Hartwig was a director of product marketing manager at Vectra. Has been active in the areas of IAM, PKI and enterprise security for more than two decades. His past experience includes product marketing at Okta, co-funding a company in cybersecurity professional services, as well as managing a security product company – a combination that has left him passionate about all parts of product marketing, design and delivery.

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Marcus Hartwig

Insiders and Whistleblowers
September 8, 2020
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Marcus Hartwig
Insiders and Whistleblowers

The ultimate goal of most insider attacks is to steal data. Just one insider threat incident can cost your organization up to $3 million. Learn when disclosure is protected and how to stay ahead of malicious attacks in this blog.

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Why IDPS is Cumbersome and Hampers Security Personnel
August 25, 2020
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Marcus Hartwig
Why IDPS is Cumbersome and Hampers Security Personnel

Discover in this blog why many organizations are struggling with the burden of maintaining IDPS deployments and how security teams can instead concentrate on detecting and mitigating active threats inside the network with network detection and response.

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Why IDPS Lacks the Capability to Detect Modern Attacks
August 18, 2020
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Marcus Hartwig
Why IDPS Lacks the Capability to Detect Modern Attacks

Learn how IDPS is ill-equipped to detect what is known as lateral movement, east-west traffic, or simply attackers moving around inside your deployments due to reliance on signatures and being deployed at the network perimeter.

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Alert Fatigue and Bad Signatures Leads to Missed Attacks
August 11, 2020
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Marcus Hartwig
Alert Fatigue and Bad Signatures Leads to Missed Attacks

Consider getting rid of IDPS and the noise it creates and check out detecting and stopping cyberattacks using NDR. Free-up your security analysts to focus on investigations and threat-hunting instead of tweaking signatures.

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Why Does Monitoring How Privileged Account Access is Used (and Abused) Matter?
July 19, 2020
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Marcus Hartwig
Why Does Monitoring How Privileged Account Access is Used (and Abused) Matter?

Privileged access is a key part of lateral movement in cyberattacks because privileged accounts have the widest range of access to critical information, making them the most valuable assets for attackers. The recent Twitter Hack compromising several high-profile accounts becomes another stark example.

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MFA is Not Enough - Malicious OAuth Apps in Office 365 are Here to Stay
June 24, 2020
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Marcus Hartwig
MFA is Not Enough - Malicious OAuth Apps in Office 365 are Here to Stay

MFA is a great step to take, but there are always ways around preventive controls. One of the well-known MFA bypass techniques is the installation of malicious Azure/O365 OAuth apps. Learn why you need to implement detection-based solutions.

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Vectra and Microsoft Join Forces to Fulfill the SOC Visibility Triad
June 9, 2020
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Marcus Hartwig
Vectra and Microsoft Join Forces to Fulfill the SOC Visibility Triad

Vectra announces a partnership and deep product integration with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (EDR) and Microsoft Azure Sentinel (SIEM) to further our extensive partner ecosystem and allow our customers to leverage the tools they already are using.

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Moving from Prevention to Detection with the SOC Visibility Triad
February 24, 2020
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Marcus Hartwig
Moving from Prevention to Detection with the SOC Visibility Triad

Modern SOCs today are looking for tools that can give them complete visibility into user endpoints, multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-prem networks, as well as correlation and forensic capabilities. In this search, the SOC visibility triad has emerged as the de-facto standard.

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Dridex Resurfaces to Open the Door to Credential Theft
December 17, 2019
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Marcus Hartwig
Dridex Resurfaces to Open the Door to Credential Theft

PAA enables SOC teams to monitor and defend against these types of attacks. In addition to our extensive models that detect command-and-control channels, this make the Cognito platform a powerful tool to combat evolving malware attacks against enterprises.

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Trust, but Verify (доверяй, но проверяй)
September 16, 2019
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Marcus Hartwig
Trust, but Verify (доверяй, но проверяй)

In infosec, the concept of "zero trust" has grown significantly in the last couple of years and has become a hot topic. A zero-trust architecture fundamentally distrusts all entities in a network and does not allow any access to resources until an entity has been authenticated and authorized to use that specific resource, i.e. trusted.

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Privileged Access Analytics
September 9, 2019
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Marcus Hartwig
Privileged Access Analytics

Since the early days of Vectra, we've been focused primarily on host devices. After all, hosts are the entities that generate the network traffic the Cognito platform analyses in looking for attacker behaviors.

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2019 Black Hat Survey: The Network Is Transforming
August 19, 2019
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Marcus Hartwig
2019 Black Hat Survey: The Network Is Transforming

For the second year in a row, we conducted the Vectra superhero survey at Black Hat. The survey is a quick six-question poll that helps us understand the current cloud adoption and top-of-mind concerns of attendees.

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