Ponemon Institute is pleased to present The Value of Threat Intelligence: Annual Study of North American and United Kingdom Companies, sponsored by Anomali. The purpose of this research is to examine trends in the benefits of threat intelligence and the challenges companies face when integrating threat intelligence with existing security platforms and technologies.

Aon’s Cyber Solutions explores eight specific risks that organizations may face in 2019 no matter where they are on their digital journey.

This report offers insights and guides into the new Help America Vote Act.

The 2019 Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report examines new vulnerabilities published in 2018, newly developed exploits, new exploit–based malware and attacks, current threat tactics and more. Such analysis helps to provide much needed context to the more than 16,000 vulnerabilities published in the previous year. The insights and recommendations provided are there to help align security strategies to effectively counter the current threat landscape. Incorporating such intelligence in vulnerability management programs will help put vulnerabilities in a risk based context and focus remediation on the small subset of vulnerabilities most likely to be used in an attack.

At Splunk, we’re working on shaping the future. Our experts are embracing new developments, focusing on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), IT operations, security and IoT. Pulling together insights from our thousands of customers and our dedicated research teams, our experts have assembled a shortlist of the top predictions for 2019.

This report offers insight into cyberattack behavior in the manufacturing industry. It discusses the severity of attacks, botnets, and other important issues related to the manufacturing industry.

This report offers research on analysis and lifecycle of an attack on critical infrastructure. It discusses command and control, internal reconnaissance, lateral movement, and targeting the ICS and SCADA infrastructure.

From the report, “Over the past few year’s attackers have exploited this opportunity, and as documented in our Anatomy of an Attack (AOA) report, have compromised a wide variety of manufacturing control systems. This report documents five case studies which show how cyber attackers could gain access to manufacturing and utility facilities. We also detail the progression of the attacks which in some cases disabled operations for an extended period. In one of our case studies, losses were catastrophic with the impacted entity suffering losses of over 800,000 euro per day. This report will explain how the attacks happen, and once established, how the attackers can extend these command and control points to breach the institution’s records, blackmail and extort funds, or worse, disable ongoing operations of the facility over an extended period.” Read on to find out more.

This guide provides some important considerations to keep in mind when investigating a cloud security platform that can address today’s realities and tomorrow’s cloud-first or cloud only end goals.

This paper is a theoretical study looking at three famous cases of insider attacks that occurred over the past six years. The paper defines the facts of the attacks and information on the attackers. It then theorizes how a behavioral analytics engine could have been used to detect and prevent these attacks. Although theoretical, the analysis is focused on technical facts rather than on opinions, so that objectivity is maintained. All facts referenced in this document are publically available. No confidential or classified data is used in this document.

This paper provides a checklist to address CIS Critical Security Controls.

Measuring & Managing the Cyber Risks to Business Operations, which was sponsored by Tenable and conducted by Ponemon Institute, reveals global trends in how organizations are assessing and addressing cybersecurity risks. We conclude from the findings that current approaches to understanding cyber risks to business operations are failing to help organizations minimize and mitigate threats. We surveyed 2,410 IT and IT security practitioners in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Mexico and Japan. All respondents have involvement in the evaluation and/or management of investments in cybersecurity solutions within their organizations. The consolidated global findings are presented in this report.

This report provides a “data-driven analysis of vulnerabilities in our industrial and critical infrastructure.”

This blog post offers insight into the New ICS Attack Framework “Triton”

This report offers insight into the Win32/Industroyer a new threat for industrial control systems.

In mid-November 2017, the Dragos, Inc. team discovered ICS-tailored malware deployed against at least one victim in the Middle East. The team identifies this malware as TRISIS because it targets Schneider Electric’s Triconex safety instrumented system (SIS) enabling the replacement of logic in final control elements. TRISIS is highly targeted and likely does not pose an immediate threat to other Schneider Electric customers, let alone other SIS products. Importantly, the malware leverages no inherent vulnerability in Schneider Electric products. However, this capability, methodology, and tradecraft in this very specific event may now be replicated by other adversaries and thus represents an addition to industrial asset owner and operators’ threat models.

Dragos, Inc. was notified by the Slovak anti-virus firm ESET of an ICS tailored malware on June 8th, 2017. The Dragos team was able to use this notification to find samples of the malware, identify new functionality and impact scenarios, and confirm that this was the malware employed in the December 17th, 2016 cyber-attack on the Kiev, Ukraine transmission substation which resulted in electric grid operations impact. This report serves as an industry report to inform the electric sector and security community of the potential implications of this malware and the appropriate details to have a nuanced discussion.

“The use of machines is driving unprecedented improvements in business efficiency, productivity, agility and speed. With businesses increasing their reliance on machines, the number of machines on enterprise networks is growing exponentially. To communicate securely, each machine needs a unique identity to authenticate and secure communications. However, organizations’ abilities to create, manage and protect these machine identities is simply not keeping up with the pace of their evolution. "

“Many businesses and government agencies have embraced supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems or industrial control systems (ICS) in recent years, but the technologies face major security challenges. Nearly 6 in 10 organizations using SCADA or ICS that were surveyed by Forrester Consulting in a study commissioned by Fortinet indicate they experienced a breach in those systems in the past year—and many of those organizations are adding to their risk by allowing technology and other partners a high level of access into their systems. Most organizations also report connections between their traditional IT systems and their SCADA/ICS, introducing the potential for outside hackers to penetrate these control systems.”

This report seeks to answer the question, “What will shape the next 12 months in cybersecurity?”

A total of 117 US insurers were found to have underwritten cyber insurance in 2015. This paper has analyzed these filings and has outlined them to provide insights for insurers that either currently offer or seek to offer cyber insurance to help them benchmark and drive decisions on underwriting and reinsurance purchase.