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Blog Archive - 2017

January
Eyal Benishti 2017 Jan 17 All in the Ransomware Family: Biggest Phishing Threats Facing Organizations Ransomware Family. Ransomware has been the most prevalent cyber threat since 2005. However, recent events have proven that the threat is increasing significantly in both READ MORE
February
Eyal Benishti 2017 Feb 6 Machine Learning: The Best Defense Against Email Spoofing & CEO Fraud Hackers and cyber criminals have responded to the adoption of employee phishing awareness training, by improving the sophistication and deceptiveness of their attacks. READ MORE
March
Eyal Benishti 2017 Mar 21 Relax: Clicking on Phishing Email Links Doesn’t Always Equal Imminent Disaster We’ve talked over and over again about just how big of a problem phishing has become. Unfortunately, recent reports suggest that the epidemic is getting READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2017 Mar 2 RSA 2017: A Call for Collaboration Amid Escalating Cyber Risks The world’s largest cybersecurity event, RSA Conference, took place earlier this month in San Francisco, bringing together top security leaders and pioneers from all over READ MORE
April
Eyal Benishti 2017 Apr 20 Smishing Attacks: A Rising Trend in Cybercrime Last week, a Santander Bank customer in the U.K. received a text message saying her debit card had been compromised. To resolve the issue, the READ MORE
May
Brendon Roddas 2017 May 16 Preventing Another Ransomware Attack: What to Look for When Choosing an Email Security Provider Over the past year, it feels like not a single day goes by without learning of a major cyberattack that originated via a phishing or READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2017 May 9 The $100M Email Spoofing Attack on Multinational Internet Companies Should Accelerate Adoption of Machine Learning Security Last month, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of a Lithuanian man for allegedly stealing $100 million from two U.S.-based tech READ MORE
June
Eyal Benishti 2017 Jun 20 Humans + Machines: The Best Defense Against Email Phishing Attacks According to Cybersecurity Ventures, global cybersecurity spending will exceed $1 trillion cumulatively over the next five years. With the massive number of cyber defenses, strategies and services READ MORE
July
Eyal Benishti 2017 Jul 31 Understanding the Complexities of Email Phishing and the Role of Automation in Expediting the Forensics Phase We recently wrote about the most prominent phishing attacks so far in 2017. Such attacks have led to record-breaking ransomware payments of more than $100 READ MORE 2017 Jul 11 Devastating Phishing Attacks Dominate First Half of 2017 Last December, we proclaimed 2016 to be the year in which phishing went mainstream. Fast-forward just six months into 2017, and it already appears that READ MORE
August
Eyal Benishti 2017 Aug 15 Understanding the Complexities of Email Phishing: The Role of Automation in Expediting the Remediation & Prevention Phase (Part II) In our last blog post, we discussed the complexities of email phishing and the role of automation in expediting the forensics phase. In it, we READ MORE
September
Eyal Benishti 2017 Sep 5 Understanding the Complexities of Email Phishing: The Role of Automation in Expediting the Recovery Phase (Part III) A recent report from FireEye cites the average time from an email phishing breach to detection is 146 days globally, and a colossal 469 days READ MORE
October
Eyal Benishti 2017 Oct 31 Email Security Insights from the Inside - Say Goodbye to Gateway & Spam solutions! Email Security: Teams Weigh in on Email Phishing Mitigation We regularly discuss the prevalence, and pure dominance, of phishing attacks and their impact on email security and the world. READ MORE
November
Eyal Benishti 2017 Nov 14 The Most Common Lies of Security Awareness Training Companies We’ve written a lot this past year on employee security awareness training, including how to measure ROI; how it must work in tandem with machine learning technology READ MORE
December
Eyal Benishti 2017 Dec 28 From Ransomware to Social Media to the Cloud: The Top 5 Phishing Challenges That Lie Ahead in 2018 By many measures, 2017 was a rough year for cybersecurity with large, brazen phishing attacks negatively impacting governments and companies around the world. Even some of the most supposedly cyber-secure organizations such as Google, Yahoo, Verizon, Virgin America and Equifax fell victim READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2017 Dec 6 Looking Beyond our Series A Funding: Why Our Automated Email Phishing Detection and Response is the Next Big Thing in Cybersecurity Since introducing our approach to the market, we have helped hundreds of companies within all industries to expedite the time from attack detection to enterprise-wide remediation from days or weeks to just seconds. READ MORE