Mandiant consultants’ role as the first responders to critical security incidents gives them a unique vantage point into how attackers’ motives and tactics are changing . The insights and analysis presented here represent their combined experience over the course of hundreds of service engagements . Over the last decade, they have helped clients across more than 30 industries around the globe .

This report takes a look at Malware in the cloud and offers some solutions to the problem.

This Quaterly report continues Akamai’s breakdown of the internet security events that occurred in the first Quarter of 2018.

This paper discusses the necessary element of collaboration that is required for success fighting cybercrime.

By providing an overview of the main areas of research and the key studies conducted in the field to date, and by making some initial recommendations about the potential role of insurers and governments in addressing cyber risks, this report lays the groundwork for discussion and future research on the development of the cyber risk and the cyber insurance market.

This first report in a multipart series, which appraises various cybersecurity occupations using natural language processing (NLP), examines the role of the CISO from the vantage point of employer job ads and CISO resumes . Findings show that the role and prominence of the chief information security officer (CISO) continue to expand and transform . CISOs are no longer seen as technologists tasked to manage their organizations’ security risks . Much more than security tacticians, CISOs are seen as business strategists who reach across organizational boundaries to build business-level relationships and orchestrate business strategies that enable digital transformation and govern compliance-related issues. Key takeaways of the analysis are broken into two sections: 1) hard and soft skills, and 2) education and career demographics .

This paper studies and explores the techniques and methods used by actors to spread fake news and manipulate public opinion to serve various motives ranging from personal and financial to political. It also discusses the three legs of the fake news triangle: the services that enable them, their appearance on social media sites, and the motivations behind these activities.

This report breaks down four strategic pillars of handling vulnerability management.

This report offers insight into the human factor and how cybercriminals have continued to recognize that the greatest vulnerability of an organization is the humans that run it.

In this white paper, they explore why people are the biggest vulnerability for most organizations, and whether it’s possible to ‘patch’ this vulnerability.

This report discusses two key topics: 1) An Intel Security survey that found that awareness was very high and, 97% of those interviewed, said that sharing cyber intelligence was valuable and 2) They explore the Adwind Java-based Trojan. It also includes the usual key points about predictions and threat summaries.

The aim of this report is to provide insights for insurers that currently offer cyber insurance, as well as those seeking to offer it, to provide a performance benchmark, and to give perspective on the industry experience.

The purpose of the survey was to understand key concerns and opinions of Chief Information Security Officers and CIOs, focused on information security and cyber-risk, as we head into 2018.