Update: Responding to the Shadow Broker Vulnerabilities
Last week, the Shadow Brokers hacker group made national headlines by leaking zero-day firewall vulnerabilities, and offering additional exploits for sale through auction. In response, the RedSeal team produced:
A blog post on how major infrastructure vulnerabilities produce the same questions – and how digital resilience puts organizations in the best position to respond. A […]
Responding to the Shadow Broker Vulnerabilities
The latest revelations about firewall vulnerabilities stolen and leaked by the Shadow Brokers are very scary, but not all that new. We learn about the release of a major infrastructure vulnerability about once every six months or so. Organizations that have learned to focus on resilience — knowing their network and how to operate through a […]
RedSeal and ForeScout Federal CTOs Explain how They Jointly Map, Identify and Increase the Resilience of Public Sector Networks
Last month, Wallace Sann, the Public Sector CTO for ForeScout, and I sat down to chat about the current state of cybersecurity in the federal government. With ForeScout, government security teams can see devices as they join the network, control them, and orchestrate system-wide responses.
Many of our customers deploy both RedSeal and ForeScout side […]
Network Access Modeling Improves Security, Performance and Uptime for FEMA
When disaster strikes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) enterprise network is expanded to include “temporary” mobile data centers that can last from months to years. In this kind of situation, change control, network maps and configurations can get wildly out of control. The security engineers in FEMA’s Security Operation Center (SOC) wanted network visibility. […]
Clear ROI for RedSeal Deployment to Support Vulnerability Assessment Program
An anonymous intelligence agency had a problem.
Their vulnerability assessment program was expensive and sub-optimal. The program was run by two internal employees and 16 contractors. Going to data center to data center, each assessment could take anywhere from 2 months to a full year to conduct.
First, they had to inventory each data center […]
RedSeal Platform Named Most Innovative Cybersecurity Product — USA
RedSeal’s cybersecurity analytics platform has been named: Most Innovative Cybersecurity Product – USA as part of Corporate Vision Magazine’s 2016 Technology Innovator Awards.
Corporate Vision is a quarterly publication for CEOs, directors and other top-level professionals looking to improve the way they manage their operations, staff, technology, business partnerships, and supply chains. Readers use the […]
Getting Federal Agencies Cyber Ready for CSIP
This blog post first appeared in Signal on April 6, 2016
Federal agencies clamor for industry best practices to implement findings resulting from last year’s 30-day “Cybersecurity Sprint,” part of the administration’s broader effort to bolster federal cybersecurity. A new mandatory directive for all civilian government agencies, the Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (CSIP), provides a […]
You Think Your Network Diagram’s Right?
Federal agencies are clamoring for information about best practices about to implement the findings of last year’s cybersecurity “sprint.” This new directive, the Cybersecurity Implementation Plan, is mandatory for all federal civilian government agencies. It addresses five issues intended to shore up agency cybersecurity and ensure network resiliency.
So when agencies are done with their […]
Continuous Monitoring + Policy Management Leads to Network Resilience and Successful Command Cyber Readiness Inspections
Over the past few years, DISA has been moving network infrastructure into Joint Regional Security Stacks.
DISA’s website says, “A joint regional security stack is a suite of equipment that performs firewall functions, intrusion detection and prevention, enterprise management, virtual routing and forwarding (VRF), and provides a host of network security capabilities…security of the network […]
RedSeal CEO Ray Rothrock Talks Cybersecurity on Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer
/by RedSealOur CEO Ray Rothrock shared the latest on cybersecurity as a guest on Mad Money with Jim Cramer (CNBC) today, covering a variety of topics – from why perfect firewall management doesn’t provide perfect protection, to the risk of a hacking attack on electrical grids and nuclear power plants.
Credit: CNBC
Some highlights:
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