Ray Rothrock, CEO of Redseal, talks about how companies’ increasingly complex networks enable opportunities for cyber attacks – and what to do about it.

NBC | Jan 12, 2015

Google under fire over Windows zero-day disclosure

ComputerWeekly | Jan 6, 2015

Google has come under fire for publishing a proof-of-concept attack exploiting a flaw in Windows 8.1 before Microsoft had released a security update. “Ethics aside, the Windows 8.1 flaw underlines that in modern enterprise network-connected systems, local exploits have enterprise-wide implications,” said chief evangelist at security analytics firm RedSeal, Steve Hultquist.

Long-Running Cyberattacks Become The Norm

InformationWeek’s Dark Reading | Jan 2, 2015

One thing that the depressing string of data breaches this year shows is that cyber attackers have become skilled at staging long-lasting data exfiltration campaigns. “We are beginning to realize in some cases that the situation is far worse than we realized,” says Stephen Hultquist, chief evangelist at RedSeal Networks. “In some cases attackers have been inside networks for months and even years without being discovered,” he says, pointing to the recently disclosed Regin APT threat as an extreme example.

Reconnaissance is the name of the game in 2015

SC Magazine | Jan 1, 2015

Steve Hultquist provides 2015 security predictions.

2015 will be the year that a growing number of more sophisticated organizations will add proactive strategies to their security arsenal, especially proactive analytics for attack prevention. This will help reduce their risk of attack while also showing them the reality of their environment–what today they don’t know they don’t know. With this newfound insight, they will make wiser investments and get greater value from them by placing them where they will do the most good.