Tweet This month’s theme is nuance detection. As Brent stated in his blog earlier this month, “the core of nuance detection is to extend alerting capabilities into finding situations that specifically should not exist, and if they happen, would indicate … Continue reading
Tweet The core of nuance detection is to extend alerting capabilities into finding situations that specifically should not exist, and if they happen, would indicate a significant security failure. A simple, elegant example would be a motion sensor on a … Continue reading
Tweet I often get asked about how utility companies deploy HoneyPoint in an average implementation. To help folks with that, I whipped up this quick graphic that shows a sample high level deployment. Thanks for reading! Let me know what … Continue reading
Tweet Brent Huston, CEO and Security Evangelist for MicroSolved, Inc., explains how organizations need to move from a focus on prevention to detection. Joined by MSI’s Account Executive Chris Lay and Marketing Communication Specialist Mary Rose Maguire, Brent maps out … Continue reading
Tweet I have been discussing the idea of doing detection depth pretty heavily lately. One of the biggest questions I have been getting is about maturity of detection efforts and the effectiveness of various types of controls. Here is a … Continue reading
Tweet I found this article quite interesting, as it gives you a heads up about the state of endpoint security, at least according to Ponemon. For those who want to skim, here is a quick summary: “Maintaining endpoint security is tougher … Continue reading
Tweet Just a quick update about the ongoing threat from malware dropped by phishing attacks. There are a lot of phishing attacks currently in progress. Fishing has been a leading form of compromise for quite some time and indicators appear … Continue reading
Tweet Launched in 2006, initially as a distributed honey pot product, HoneyPoint Security Server (HPSS) has grown well beyond the initial concept. Today HPSS is a platform of components woven into a tightly integrated, fully capable, extremely flexible threat detection … Continue reading
Tweet HoneyPoint has a component called a HoneyBee that can help organizations detect sniffing on their networks. The tool works like this: HoneyBees are configured to talk to HoneyPoint Agents with a set of known credentials for an Agent emulated … Continue reading
Tweet The NE Ohio Security Summit kicks off tomorrow and runs through Friday evening. Chris Lay (@getinfosechere) and myself (@lbhuston) will be in attendance. I will be speaking on Thursday afternoon about Detection in Depth and some other models for … Continue reading