RSA USA 2014: Continuous Monitoring, Protection, and Vigilance

The advanced threat landscape was a hot topic at last week’s RSA Conference, where industry influencers, peers, customers, and partners came together to look at today’s security challenges and help solve them.

At the event, FireEye chief security strategist Richard Bejtlich sat down with Mike Scutt, incident handler at FireEye. They discussed how customers benefit from the powerful addition of Mandiant to the FireEye Threat Prevention Platform.

Their exchange zeroed in on FireEye Managed Defense one of the first products to come about from the Mandiant integration. Managed Defense enhances FireEye Continuous Monitoring capabilities with a greater level of intelligence. This new family of services leverages the Mandiant professional services group to provide vital context about cyber-attacks and detailed advice about how to prevent, detect, contain, and resolve them.

Managed Defense offers three levels of service, tailored to customers’ in-house resources and risk tolerance: Continuous Monitoring, Continuous Protection, and Continuous Vigilance. All three service tiers help subscribers identify attackers, understand their intentions, and draw up a step-by-step action plan.

Click below to listen to the full podcast recorded live from the show floor at RSA USA 2014:
Richard Bejtlich Interviews Mike Scutt

Even Hackers Don’t Like to Work Weekends: Email Attack Trends from Q1 2012

In our second half (2H) of 2011 Advanced Threat Report, we provided compelling evidence that illustrated a possible correlation between an increase in email-based attacks and national holidays. Continuing this theme, let’s widen our dataset to worldwide and focus on the corresponding statistics collected year-to-date for 2012. To be clear, these statistics reflect the number of malicious attachments seen after initial SPAM and anti-virus filtering across our customer deployments who share intelligence back to us.

1Q2012 Email Attack Trends

Figure 1. Rate of malicious attachments detected (worldwide) by relative volume (2H2011 + 2012YTD)

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