Interview: Martin Holste on the Future of Security in the Cloud

In December 2020, FireEye revealed the details of a sophisticated threat actor that took advantage of SolarWinds’ Orion Platform to orchestrate a wide-scale supply chain attack and deploy a backdoor we call SUNBURST.

This attack impacted organizations worldwide, leading executives everywhere to question whether their environment fell victim. For Mandiant Managed Defense, the identification of victims started even before the public became aware of the SUNBURST campaign.

Join Matt Bromiley, Principal Consultant, Mandiant Managed Defense and Andrew Rector, Sr. Principal Consultant, Mandiant Managed Defense, for a first-ever look inside how Mandiant addressed the SUNBURST threat with customers, including stories from the front lines of this customer-focused response. Our experts will also highlight:

• How this prolific cyber attack changes the way we view security
• SUNBURST threat actor TTPs and how Mandiant hunts for the most relevant, and dangerous threats
• What threat hunting techniques should be deployed to find today’s stealthiest attackers

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La inteligencia de ciber amenazas (CTI) puede ser considerado como el super héroe de la ciber seguridad en la actualidad. ¿Por qué? Porque puede ayudar a los equipos de seguridad y de gestión de riesgos a mantenerse enfocados y mejor preparados para enfrentar a las amenazas más relevantes para la organización, así como apoyar en la toma de decisiones estratégicas y ejecutivas. Sin embargo, para ser efectiva, la función de CTI debe ser operativa y seguir un enfoque estructurado.

Únase al equipo de expertos en ciber seguridad de Mandiant mientras discuten:
• Los beneficios de contar con una unidad de CTI
• El “Estándar Dorado” de Mandiant para operacionalizar la inteligencia
• Los elementos fundacionales para la operacionalización de la CTI
• La integración de fuentes de inteligencia como parte de las operaciones de la unidad de CTI

One of the foremost challenges for security operations center (SOC) analysts is evaluating alerts from the wide variety of tools operating in the SOC. For every alert, SOC analysts must perform a detailed triage in order to determine the extent of an alert and whether an alert is actually a threat or a false positive. It can be difficult for a SOC analyst to easily determine whether a file or hash is malicious or benign and the whole process can take hours of valuable time.

Enter FireEye Detection on Demand! Delivered as an API, this threat detection service provides easy integration into the SOC workflow, SIEM analytics, data repositories, and more. Detection On Demand delivers flexible file and content analysis capabilities to identify malicious behavior wherever the enterprise needs it.

Verdicts are delivered almost instantly and allow applications to quickly process without the latency of other competitors. If more in-depth analysis is needed, users can log into the Detection On Demand web portal which provides reports, memory dumps, pcaps, and access to MITRE ATT&CK mappings.

Detection On Demand integrates natively with FireEye Security Orchestrator and with numerous other SaaS and Security products, providing for rapid integration with the existing infrastructure. Many application integrations are already in place with the likes of Splunk Phantom, Polarity, Siemplify, Palo Alto Network XSOAR, and D3 Security, with more being added every month.

In this webinar, you will learn:
•How Detection On Demand works
•How to best integrate Detection On Demand to improve the efficiency of your SOC
•Other ways you can leverage Detection on Demand

At the end of the webinar, you will be able to test drive Detection On Demand for yourself.

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Investments in cyber security have rapidly increased in recent years, yet high-profile breaches continue to make headlines, and the economic and financial losses stemming from these breaches continue to grow. Combined with economic pressures and extensive remote workforces, CISOs and CFOs must now work together to understand where to cut spending without adding risk. But without proper security validation and assessment tools that can credibly quantify risks in dollar terms, this becomes an impossible task.

Attend this webinar to:

• Learn how to fully validate your organization’s cyber health and measure its impact on the company’s financial posture and market performance Determine your organization’s risk profile, the financial impact of cyber performance and communicate about risk in dollar-based terms
• Discover how mismanagement, underutilization and duplication of security controls drive up costs that increase as they flow through the organization
• Learn how a bottom-up approach to security validation combined with a top-down market-validated risk assessment increases ROI of your security investments

Expert Speakers:
Earl Matthews, Maj Gen, (Ret), Vice President of Strategy, Mandiant Security Validation
Ryan Dodd, Founder and CEO, Cyberhedge

A FireEye descobriu uma ampla campanha que estamos rastreando como UNC2452. Os atores por trás dessa campanha tiveram acesso a inúmeras organizações públicas e privadas em todo o mundo através de atualizações trojanizadas do software Orion da SolarWinds, de gerenciamento e monitoramento de TI. Esta campanha pode ter começado no outono de 2020 e atualmente está em andamento.

A atividade pós-comprometimento incluiu movimentação lateral e roubo de dados. A campanha é obra de um ator altamente qualificado e a operação foi realizada com significativa segurança operacional.

Estamos trabalhando incansavelmente para defender e ajudar nossos clientes contra essas e futuras ameaças e gostaríamos de aproveitar este momento para compartilhar um briefing técnico – apenas para convidados – no dia 28 de janeiro às 15hs (horário de Brasília), conduzido por Arthur Cesar Oreana, da FireEye. Este briefing irá discutir as ameaças atuais e resumir as melhores práticas em evolução ao investigá-las e mitigá-las.

Eu gostaria de convidá-lo pessoalmente a participar da sessão para obter uma visão e orientação específicas para o Brasil.

From COVID to the cloud and from ransomware to work-from-home, everything changed, fast. The foundation of it all – the Security Operations Center, or SOC, played a critical role in supporting how enterprises tackled the pivot in how we work, communicate and connect, while ensuring a strong security posture for the organization. The Ponemon Institute researched how these changes have impacted the effectiveness of the SOC in the “Second Annual Study on the Economics of Security Operations Centers: What is the True Cost for Effective Results?”

What stands out this year?

• COVID-19: The pandemic’s impact on how SOCs operate and tackle security challenges as remote employees create new access points and bad actors take advantage.
• Strong Hiring & Salaries: Jobs and salaries are up as CISOs drive to employ qualified security analysts and retain them in an environment where competition for their services is ruthless.
• ROI of the SOC is Dropping: Complexity, analyst turnover and the growing cost of MSSP support for security monitoring drives lower scores in SOC investment.
• Budgets include Automation & Extended Detection & Response: Extended Detection & Response (XDR) and security automation solutions have emerged as budgetary priorities as CISOs seek answers to improve security engineering effectiveness and cost.

Let’s dig into what it all means for the next year. Join the report author, Larry Ponemon, Founder of the Ponemon Institute and Dan Lamorena, VP of Marketing for XDR at FireEye, for a live discussion on the state of today’s SOC, staffing, budgets for SOC tools, cost considerations for outsourcing and ROI.

FireEye ha descubierto una campaña generalizada, que estamos rastreando como UNC2452. Los actores detrás de esta campaña obtuvieron acceso a numerosas organizaciones públicas y privadas de todo el mundo. Los mismos obtuvieron acceso a las víctimas a través de actualizaciones troyanizadas del software de gestión y supervisión de TI Orion de SolarWinds.

Se presume que esta campaña pudo haber comenzado en la primavera de 2020 y actualmente está en curso. Actividades posteriores a la vulneración que afectaron la cadena de suministro incluyen movimientos laterales y el robo de datos. La campaña es obra de un actor altamente calificado y la operación se llevó a cabo con una seguridad operativa significativa.

Estamos trabajando incansablemente para defender y ayudar a nuestros clientes contra estas y futuras amenazas y nos gustaría aprovechar este momento para informarles sobre una sesión técnica que se realizará solo por invitación el 13 de enero de 2021 a la 2 p.m. hora de Nueva York, la cual estará a cargo de Stephen Fallas y Carlos Ayala de FireEye. En esta sesión se analizarán las amenazas actuales y resumirán las mejores prácticas en evolución a la hora de investigar y mitigar dichas amenazas.

Malicious cyber operations are not a force of nature. Instead, behind every compromise are human operators using tools and techniques to accomplish various goals.
As a result, when reading about a malware campaign like “SUNBURST”, security practitioners try to answer essential questions like “Who could be behind this attack?” “What are they trying to accomplish?” or “How do they operate?”

Solving these questions is often easier said than done. Actionable threat intelligence can provide unique insight so that security teams act in concert, quickly understand risks, prioritize resources to take the most effective countermeasures.

Join our host, Bart Lenaerts-Bergmans, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Mandiant with presenters, Kelli Vanderlee, Sr. Manager, Analysis, Mandiant and Jeff Guilfoyle, Principal Product Manager, Mandiant Advantage, as we explore key concepts:

• How modern attribution works and the analytic processes
• Understanding new actors (uncategorized) and which details to pay attention to
• Navigating recent threat actor UNC2452 and Sunburst Malware using Mandiant Advantage

The security operations center (SOC) will never keep up with information overload. CISOs are challenged to transform the paradigm so the investments in people payoff, while reducing attrition and making security work fun. Automation is only just part of the solution.

Modern security operations need to abandon the current model bogged down by formalities in process and procedure to one that is incident-aware, and situation focused. As enterprises deploy solutions for endpoint detection and response (EDR), security teams are realizing that they also need tools and strategies that are more all-encompassing to include threat intelligence, cloud services, SOAR, and next-gen SIEM, among others. So, where is the SOC to go from here?

Join Chris Triolo, Chief Customer Officer at Respond Software, as he welcomes Jackie Groark, VP of Security and CISO at Veristor. Triolo and Groark will explore the promise of Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and start a discussion on how to supercharge automation and effectiveness in the security operations center.

FireEye Helix enables you to take control of any incident from alert to fix, saving valuable time, resources and effort. This unified security operations platform addresses traditional SIEM shortfalls while delivering highly efficient, low-maintenance security automation.

Join us for the next session in a series of webinars, as our experts highlight:

• How Helix analytics automate the detection of suspicious activity in your environment using techniques that rules alone cannot provide
• The types of detectors employed by analytics to identify specific kinds of activity that are often associated with attackers
• Analytics Advisories that help you identify additional data sources for analytics detections in your environment
• Techniques for building context on analytics alert to enhance alert analysis and response
• How to improve threat and vulnerability detection with advanced user behavioral analytics

A hands-on Helix demonstration shows how you can build context on analytics alerts and leverage analytics for hunting. And you can stay on after the session for an in-depth Q&A with our experts.

Get the latest on UNC2452, the actor behind the SolarWinds supply chain compromise

FireEye's Mandiant team recently uncovered a threat actor leveraging a supply chain to carry out intrusions in a uniquely impactful campaign. The actor behind these intrusions, UNC2452, focuses heavily on operational security, which has limited historic perspective on their behavior and made them very difficult to detect; however, we are rapidly learning more about them.

Join our Mandiant experts for this webinar where we will offer the latest intelligence on this important threat actor.

Mandiant Security Validation allows you to accurately assess a company's security posture. We help our clients take a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks due to incorrect configurations, inefficiencies in products, and / or established security processes.

Register for the webinar and find out how Mandiant Security Validation enables you to:

• Evaluate your security posture in order to prioritize investments;
• Optimize the configuration of your technologies to maximize the return on investment;
• Compare your security with market standards such as MITRE ATT&CK Framework and others;
• Test the correct operation of your DLP-type tools;
• Measure the security of your security processes in the CLOUD;
• Validate the correct operation of your Endpoint tools;
• Confirm network segmentation in IT / OT / SCADA environments.

The results can be extremely interesting for managers of SOCs, CISOs and for the Board of Directors.

Security Effectiveness Strategies: How to Validate and Improve Your Security Posture

To stay ahead of an evolving threat landscape, security teams must continuously improve their processes and technology. But even with their investments, security professionals still need answers to pressing questions:
-Who are the attackers that target my industry and what techniques do they use?
-Which alerts matter most and how do I respond?
-Are my tools, controls, processes working as expected?
-Where should I focus improvement efforts?

Join Major General Earl Matthews USAF (Ret), VP of Strategy, Mandiant Solutions and Jeff Compton, Senior Manager, Global Head of Intelligence Consulting, FireEye Mandiant Threat Intelligence for our upcoming webinar to:

-Learn how cyber threat intelligence can inform which attackers target your industry and understand the techniques they employ
-Find out how continuous validation can pinpoint where you have gaps so you can target improvements where they are needed
-Understand how validation technology powered by relevant intelligence can generate proof of effectiveness and reduce risk

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XDR is a relatively new term in the security tools landscape. It stands for Extended Detection and Response – the approach that security operations centers should extend visibility and analysis to include threat intelligence, telemetries, vulnerabilities, and other relevant IT information. XDR is built to accelerate detection and response and reduce security engineering headaches that plague security operations teams.

What are the challenges with current approaches to detection and response? Should you displace your current SIEM? What about the cloud?

Let’s talk about it. Join Respond Software as we host a live chat with Dave Gruber, Senior Cybersecurity Industry Analyst, from ESG. Dave will discuss the key findings from the latest industry research on XDR in the ESG eBook, The Impact of XDR in the Modern SOC. Hosted by Mike Epplin, Solutions Architect, get the definitive roadmap for everything you need to modernize the SOC.

We will explore why XDR is so important for security teams to address today’s advanced attacks, how organizations are approaching XDR implementations, and what core outcomes can be expected. If you are evaluating XDR, join us here on BrightTALK on December 2 at 11 am ET. You don’t want to miss it!

Source: ESG eBook, The Impact of XDR in the Modern SOC – Taking Detection and Response to the Next Level, November 2020.

Join our FireEye Chat expert-to-expert discussion for a look back on the predictions from last year’s Security Predictions report to see how we fared. We’ll also highlight other major cyber security occurrences of this year that has altered the course of direction for the industry as we move into 2021.

Cyber attacks continue to grow across government agencies, in both frequency and scope. It’s increasingly difficult for IT leaders to track threat actor behaviors, including those sponsored by nation states and financially motivated criminal operations.

In this digital event, government media and industry leaders discuss what’s at stake for government agencies, from critical infrastructure and national resilience issues to risk management and civilian network defense. Tune in to explore the following topics and more:

• How nation-state interests are driving advanced persistent threat (APT) activity
• Insights into recently investigated APT groups
• The latest tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by adversarial groups
• The state of the ransomware landscape

La migración a entornos de múltiples nubes y el panorama de amenazas en evolución plantean nuevos riesgos para las organizaciones. A medida que los datos se encuentran en múltiples instancias de nube, los atacantes evolucionan para aprovechar la falta de visibilidad y de control, colocando las operaciones en riesgo de una brecha.

Participa junto a nuestros expositores el jueves 19 de noviembre del 2020 a las 10:30 a.m. UTC / 8:30 a.m. PT donde analizaremos la complejidad, estrategias y habilidades necesarias para mantener de forma efectiva las operaciones en los entornos de nube. Abordando aspectos como:

¿Cómo puedo obtener una mayor visibilidad en todos los entornos de nube?; ¿Está mi equipo deteniendo eficazmente la fuga de datos y protegiendo la integridad de los datos?; ¿Mi equipo tiene evidencia para comunicar adecuadamente las métricas claves a nuestros ejecutivos?; ¿De qué lado del modelo de responsabilidad de nube compartida es responsable mi equipo?

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PANEL DE EXPERTOS

Zeus López González
CISO Transformación Digital – Banco Azteca – Mexico

Raúl Gómez Voguel
CISO – Banco BHD León -  Republica Dominicana

Gerald Segura Zúñiga
Gerente Ciberseguridad – Davivienda Costa Rica

Moderador:
Stephen Fallas
Cybersecurity Architect Strategist, FireEye/Mandiant