What you may have missed at BlackHat 2017. Cybersecurity expert Ron Gula weighs in on some of the highlights from this year’s BlackHat and Eastwind caught his eye. “Eastwind Networks merged cloud forensics with network forensics. This is important because we all see the trend where our big apps are fleeing the network and moving […]
Eastwind’s CEO says cyberattack more aggressive than WannaCry. Watch Eastwind Networks CEO, Paul Kraus weigh in on the cyberattack similar to WannaCry that spread from Europe to the U.S and South America, hitting port operations, disrupting government systems and disabling operations at companies. Watch the entire interview here
Users mistakenly think that if they put their infrastructure into Amazon (AWS), Google Cloud or Azure, that they’re also providing security—but that’s a fallacy. Cybersecurity platform maker Eastwind Networks on May 22 released a new feature, Eastwind Cloud Connectors, that enable users to analyze activity from SaaS, IaaS and PaaS providers alongside traditional on premise […]
Enables Businesses to Embrace New Technologies Securely SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eastwind Networks, the cybersecurity solutions and breach analytics cloud platform designed to provide visibility, forensics and incident response capabilities to enterprises, today announced the release of a new feature—the Eastwind Cloud Connectors—that enable its platform to analyze activity from SaaS, IaaS and PaaS providers alongside […]
The WannaCry ransomware has been at the top of the news cycle for the past few days as organizations in the UK, Spain, the US and Asia have been targeted. In the initial hours of the global attack, 61 UK Nation Health Services organizations were affected. Ransomware infects computer systems and makes file systems inaccessible […]
Trust. We do it all the time. We trust people not to run red lights, and we trust that our internet connection will be operational enough to stream the latest Netflix series. As ongoing IRS breaches and banking breaches prove, however, not everything that is supposed to be safe actually lives up to that promise. […]
On the backdrop of the recent announcement from IRS about a 400% surge in tax-related frauds and phishing campaigns, Eastwind Labs has now analyzed a variant of Dridex malware. The authors of Dridex have adopted the strategy of using macros in Office documents as the means to disseminate their malware, and they have been clever […]
Recently our President and CEO, Paul Kraus sat down with Dave Shackleford, owner and principal consultant of Voodoo Security and a SANS analyst, senior instructor, and course author during a SANS Institute Webinar. The webinar focused on how our cloud-based active breach detection is emerging as the next-gen security technology, leveraging real-time machine learning, behavior […]
On March 12, 2016, Eastwind Networks detected a DDOS attack targeting Wordpress Web servers. The attack targets a specific Wordpress theme—agritourismo-theme, and is malicious enough to cause failures. Web servers are seeing requests for files under the agritourismo theme even if that theme is not installed. You may see entries in your http logs similar […]
