Posts tagged 'breach response'

Understand what a real hacking attack looks like to the attacker and defenders

The IT security world is rocked by news of breach after breach, including the shocking disclosure of the SolarWinds attack. Data is stolen, deleted or corrupted and… well you know. It’s a total mess. Journalists focus on basic outcomes, while technical blogs look at esoteric technical details. We’ve explained, in laymen’s terms, what a breach looks like from an attacker’s point of view. And from the position of the defenders.

Posted on March 12th, 2021 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2021, breach response, cybersecurity, hacking, security testing, standards

If an EDR solution can spot an attack, why doesn’t it stop it too?

SE Labs tested Crowdstrike Falcon in this Breach Response test, pitting it against a range of hacking attacks designed to compromise systems.

This month shattered any doubt that intrusion detection technology is necessary. Large companies and other organisations that rely on compromised technology from IT management firm SolarWinds are racing to discover possible breaches.

Posted on January 19th, 2021 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2021, breach response, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, hacking, security testing, targeted attacks

How we run our Breach Response testing, and why

In this blog post our CTO Stefan Dumitrascu explains some of the challenges behind our newly launched Breach Response testing, why things are now different (better) and the background on how we came to make some of our decisions.

One of our most exciting projects this year has been the Breach Response testing programme. In this article we explain what has changed since last year, and why.

Posted on October 26th, 2020 by Stefan Dumitrascu and tagged 2020, anti-virus, breach response, cybersecurity, endpoint, hacking, review, security testing, standards, targeted attacks

Testing anti-breach products needs the full chain of attack.

Kaspersky Lab should be congratulated, not only for engaging with this new and challenging test, but for submitting a product that performed so strongly against attacks that closely replicate advanced, nation-state level threats.

Its endpoint detection and response offering, Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform, is one of the very first to face our brand new Breach Response Test and it detected all of the attacks, while protecting against the vast majority of them.

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Posted on October 17th, 2019 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2019, breach response, hacking, kaspersky, security testing, targeted attacks, test results

Testing anti-breach products needs the full chain of attack.

Symantec’s endpoint detection and response offering, Symantec Endpoint Security Complete, is the first to face our brand new Breach Response Test.

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Posted on October 1st, 2019 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2019, breach response, hacking, security testing, symantec, targeted attacks, test results