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Financial services institutions, or FSIs, are high-value targets for cyberattacks because of the capital they control, the personal information on customers they maintain, and the fear an attack on a bank generates in the public. Phishing attacks on FSIs have risen steadily, especially employee credential theft - because once an employee’s credentials are stolen, cyberattackers can access customer information, employee data, even finances. While legacy security solutions claim to block up to ...

Email filtering often misses malicious sites because detection-based techniques find it difficult to continuously build defenses against the large number of phishing sites created daily. Yet, while email phishing attacks are highly successful, they are also entirely avoidable. Email Isolation provides organizations with the means they need to protect against this common threat without damaging the end user’s experience. Download to Learn: What different phishing strategies are employed by ...

Menlo Security Named a Visionary in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways (SWG). The Menlo Security Cloud Platform offers customers the ability to scale and isolate all web traffic. Unlike the alternatives, Menlo is powered by its patented isolation technology and that empowers enterprises to embrace a Secure Cloud Transformation Menlo’s global cloud-native architecture elastically auto-scales security and throughput for the seamless on-demand growth of global users, devices...

Jack Miller, Head of Professional Services, Menlo Security It isn’t that we struggle to define the zero trust security model. It’s that we ignore the real challenge, says Jack Miller of Menlo Security. We need to shift our view of authentication and access from “innocent until proven guilty” to “guilty until proven innocent.” In this video interview with Information Security Media Group, Miller discusses: The application of this new view to access. The role of Internet isolation in ...

As organizations rush key apps to the cloud to support remote workers, they often create opportunities for attackers. These are the most common mistakes to avoid.

A new remote access trojan (RAT) lures cryptocurrency users to download trojanized apps by promoting the apps in dedicated online forums and on social media.

Enabling the edge, more IoT devices and more risks -- 5G predictions for 2021 As the worldwide roll out of 5G networks gathers pace, what do industry experts believe will be the opportunities and threats that they will bring? Verizon Medias chief business officer Iván Markman expects 5G to push more computing to the edge, "As 5G deployment grows across networks, offering much faster data speeds and low-latency, and computing is increasingly done at the edge of the cloud instead of inside a dev...

As New Year approaches there is far more uncertainty compared with years past, both in terms of health and the economy. But will 2021 be the end to such woes, pandemic and otherwise? Looking at security issues for 2021 is Kowsik Guruswamy. As to how cybersecurity may develop during 2021, this could see a rise in social engineering attacks that take advantage of a distributed workforce to a level up for deepfakes. What is most certain is that 2021 will be a big year for security, according to Me...

"Because the file is hosted in an iframe within a legitimate site, users are tricked into thinking the file is from a legitimate source and encouraged to download and execute the file," said Krishnan Subramanian, security researcher at Menlo Security, in a research note today. This iFrame technique helps attackers end around basic web filtering based on website categories since they are delivered from legitimate categories. The drive-by download mechanisms used by the SocGholish framework don...

Cloud security leader recognized based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Menlo Security, the only isolation-powered cloud security platform, today announced that it has been named a Visionary in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways (SWG) for the third consecutive year. The new model of remote work and migration from on-premises web security to cloud-delivered security is forcing organizations to completely re-arch...