Remediation and Hardening Strategies for Microsoft 365 to Defend Against UNC2452
This past winter, FireEye uncovered a widespread campaign conducted by a threat group we labeled UNC2452. In some of the intrusions linked with this campaign, the attackers used their access to on-premises networks to infiltrate Microsoft 365 environments. An estimated 60,000 organizations have been affected.
Because there is no formal security boundary between on-premises networks and cloud services provided by Microsoft 365, a thorough review of potentially affected cloud environments may be necessary.
This paper can help you understand the nature of this attack and outline steps you can take to detect and protect your potentially compromised environments. You can learn about:
- The four main techniques threat actors are using to exploit Microsoft 365
- Actionable detection and remediation strategies for each threat
- Hardening recommendations for your Microsoft 365 environment
Light in the Dark: Hunting for SUNBURST
This past winter, FireEye uncovered a widespread campaign conducted by a threat group we labeled UNC2452. This group used SolarWinds’ Orion Platform to launch a supply chain attack and deploy a backdoor called SUNBURST that affected organizations around the globe.
Mandiant Managed Defense was hunting down the threat and identifying potential victims before the attack had a name.
In this on-demand webinar, Mandiant’s Matt Bromiley and Andrew Rector share an inside look at how Mandiant addressed the SUNBURST threat with clients. You’ll hear frontline stories, and:
- See how this attack influences the way we view cyber security
- Learn SUNBURST threat actors TTPs
- Discover the techniques used by Mandiant threat hunters
12 Hidden Costs and Hurdles to Managing AWS Infrastructure
Cloud adoption is booming. Gartner estimates that spending on cloud services grew 6 percent in 2020 to a total market value of $257.9 billion. While there are several large public cloud players, Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the largest, with 45 percent of the market share for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and more than 1 million active users.
But, even with an estimated 91 percent of organizations now using a public cloud, many lack the bandwidth, internal resources, and expertise to properly manage their infrastructure. Aspects like monitoring, proactive improvements, and cost optimization typically require substantial legwork that may occupy engineers and pull them away from core business initiatives.
Without the right resources and expertise, managing your own AWS infrastructure can lead to:
- Costly outages due to hard-to-use monitoring tools.
- Never achieving a proactive approach.
- Overpaying for cloud services.
In this Ebook, we will review 12 hidden costs and hurdles to managing AWS infrastructure on your own, and how working with a managed cloud service provider like Mission can help leverage AWS to accelerate your business.
10 Best Practices For Reducing Spend In AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) forever changed the world of IT when it entered the market in 2006 offering services for pennies on the dollar. While its prices have come down significantly over the years, many companies learned the hard way that moving to the public cloud didn’t always achieve the cost savings they expected.
In fact, organizations have frequently noticed public cloud bills two to three times higher than expectations. This doesn’t mean that moving to the public cloud is a mistake. The public cloud provides huge benefits in agility, responsiveness, simplified operation, and improved innovation but the reality of the cloud is that costs steadily rise over time, and without clear insight into what drives your spend, strategic cost reduction is impossible.
In this book, you will learn the 10 best practices for reducing spend in AWS, so you can start optimizing your cloud for spend and performance today.
Adopting a Next Generation Data Security Strategy
This white paper highlights how organizations can adopt a next generation data security strategy that bridges security technologies deployed across heterogeneous and highly distributed environments. Organizations are lacking a centralized view of their data security risk posture, compounded by the complexity of managing security across distributed environments. This lack of visibility results in an ineffective way of prioritizing alerts and assessing the business impact of lost or stolen data assets. Taking a holistic approach affords organizations a comprehensive view of existing security risks to sensitive data.
Adopting a Next Generation Data Security Strategy
This white paper highlights how organizations can adopt a next generation data security strategy that bridges security technologies deployed across heterogeneous and highly distributed environments. Organizations are lacking a centralized view of their data security risk posture, compounded by the complexity of managing security across distributed environments. This lack of visibility results in an ineffective way of prioritizing alerts and assessing the business impact of lost or stolen data assets. Taking a holistic approach affords organizations a comprehensive view of existing security risks to sensitive data.
2021 State of the CDP
This report surveyed 300 marketers in the US across 5 major industries with the goal of developing a better understanding of the current and future state of CDPs.
The findings revealed why CDPs were central to solving the challenges of 2020, including reduced budgets, new data privacy legislation, sudden digital acceleration due to COVID-19, as well as pending third-party cookie loss.
Get this research report to discover:
- Why CDPs have become vital to marketing success
- 6 ways marketers are adapting to change with a CDP
- How to find a CDP that makes integration easy
- 3 important factors to help you quantify CDP ROI
- Why data privacy and compliance continue to be a top priority
Adopting a Next Generation Data Security Strategy
This white paper highlights how organizations can adopt a next generation data security strategy that bridges security technologies deployed across heterogeneous and highly distributed environments. Organizations are lacking a centralized view of their data security risk posture, compounded by the complexity of managing security across distributed environments. This lack of visibility results in an ineffective way of prioritizing alerts and assessing the business impact of lost or stolen data assets. Taking a holistic approach affords organizations a comprehensive view of existing security risks to sensitive data.
Drive Better Business Outcomes
Any downtime caused by poor database performance interrupts business operations, has a negative impact on productivity, and can directly affect the bottom line. And enterprise applications like SQL Server are the backbone of any organization.
Read our whitepaper to see how you can ensure your organization is operating at peak performance by applying comprehensive monitoring to improve business outcomes.
Manage the Multiple Database Journey
To ensure adequate transactional capacity, most enterprises have adopted a multi-database strategy—using several different database platforms to store different classes or categories of data. So, there’s been a surge in the number of databases in use at most organizations, with database managers increasingly responsible for numerous instances.
In the multi-database environment, ensuring each individual database operates at its optimal level is critical. And since database platforms don’t all operate the same way, database managers must gain expertise on the multiple platforms. They also must continue to conduct performance tuning, maintain high availability, and ensure data security—again for multiple platforms.
Read our whitepaper to see how your business can best manage multiple databases.
Use the Data Security Governance Framework to Balance Business Needs and Risks
Considered a data security gold standard, Gartner's Data Security Governance Framework recommends that data governance, compliance, and security be effectively unified.
Read this report to dive into best practices and steps you can take to help your organization achieve a comprehensive data security posture.
The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Security Guardium Oct 2020
IBM commissioned Forrester Research consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) that organizations may realize by deploying IBM Security Guardium. The study uncovered that organizations achieve cost and risk reductions while increasing productivity and tactical efficiencies from implementing IBM Security Guardium. Read the study to learn more.
Read the Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to learn how to:
- Achieve cost and risk reductions
- Increase productivity and tactical efficiencies
- Evaluate the potential return on investment
The Future Of Data Security And Privacy: Growth And Competitive Differentiation
Are you prepared to defend against new security and privacy threats? From data breaches to privacy violations, to unwarranted workplace surveillance, the implications of weak data security and privacy policies are escalating.
Read Forrester's latest review to understand the challenges and get advice on how to prepare for what’s ahead.
Smarter data security with IBM Security Guardium
Businesses are embracing hybrid multicloud-based deployment models in order to gain agility and drive their organizations forward. But such a deployment can increase the attack surface, potentially resulting in a host of new data security and compliance challenges.
Learn how IBM Security Guardium—with broad visibility and monitoring, actionable insights and remediation controls—can help you take a smarter, integrated approach to safeguarding critical data across hybrid, multicloud environments.
Overcoming data security challenges in a hybrid multicloud world
Organizations are rapidly moving to the cloud, leveraging infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform as-a-service (PaaS), and Database as-a-service as new ways to optimize their business, even though these environments present new risks to sensitive data.
Data security solutions must be able to operate across multiple environments (physical, cloud and hybrid).
Read this ebook to learn more about how to secure sensitive data across a variety of environments, and how the IBM Data Security portfolio can help.
