Iran and Israel Continue Their Shadow Conflict in Cyberspace
Bottom Line Up Front Israeli cyberattacks against Iran are intended to send a signal, as a means of pushing back against Iran’s actions in […] More
Posts Tagged ‘cyber attack’
How Cyber Gray-Ops Became the New Norm in the Middle East
Cyber-enabled information operations in the Gulf, such as the one that seemingly spurred the ongoing feud between Qatar and its neighbors, represent the gray line […] More
Information Warfare and the Gulf Dispute
The use of cyber capabilities to influence geopolitical confrontations has become more and more common. Even those countries who are not major global powers are […] More
Jumping the Air Gap: How to Breach Isolated Networks
Connectivity continues to enmesh businesses, governments, societies and people – a trend that will only accelerate with the growth of public cloud services and devices […] More
Covertly Removing Data From Air-Gapped Networks
In the world of network security, the term air gap refers to a situation in which the computer network is physically separated from other networks, […] More
A Cipher Exclusive Q&A With Matt Olsen on Russian Hacking
The White House is looking to take a “proportional” response to Russia’s alleged hacking of U.S. political party organizations and effort to interfere in the […] More
Forewarned is Forearmed: Confronting Adversaries in Cyberspace
The risk of attack or theft from cyber-enabled actors has been made extremely clear to both private businesses and governments. The last few years have […] More
Cybersecurity for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
With the proliferation of many advanced security tools, enterprise and C-Suite managers have recently turned to deploying the most fashionable, powerful, and popular tools on […] More
Steps You Should Take
Large businesses in the United States are putting substantial resources into protecting their information from cybersecurity threats. As a result, they are tougher targets for […] More
Understand Your Exposure
Justin Zeefe is a co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for the Nisos Group. Zeefe spoke with The Cipher Brief about the evolving cyber-threat and how […] More
Cybersecurity Insurance
Few businesses today would think of operating without liability, property, or workers’ compensation insurance and yet, according to a recent survey by CSO magazine, only […] More
Punching Above its Weight
Iranian hacks into the social media accounts of U.S. State Department officials are the latest signal from Tehran that it is not looking to turn […] More
A Second-Tier Cyber Power
Iran is a second tier cyber power. By the standards of other state actors, its capabilities—both offensive and defensive—are relatively modest, but they are growing […] More
A "Brown Water" Navy
Through a series of attacks over the last three years, Iran has revealed a limited offensive cyber capability but a willingness to use it to […] More
Iran: A Rising Cyber Power?
To understand what domestic and strategic factors may have encouraged Iran to seek stronger cyber-capabilities, it helps to look at the several ways Iran uses […] More
Hacking Back: Liability and Risks
David Navetta is an attorney who focuses primarily on technology, privacy, information security, and intellectual property law at Norton Rose Fulbright. In an interview with […] More
Statecraft in Cyberspace
Does the cyber domain call for a fundamentally different framework for achieving international order in the 21st century, requiring statesmen to critically rethink the art […] More
The Government’s Domain
As President and CEO of FusionX, Matt Devost focuses on cybersecurity and risk management. Devost told The Cipher Brief that offensive cyber operations should rest […] More
The Cyber Attribution Challenge
Nearly a year ago, we witnessed an act of cyber destruction directed against the networks of Sony Pictures Entertainment. The destruction was serious and somewhat […] More
Recovering from a Cyber Attack
205 Days. 69 Percent. $3.8 Million. These are important numbers that incident response company Mandiant highlights in their 2015 M-Trends Threat Report and the Poneman […] More
Incident Response
Jim Aldridge is a Director at Mandiant, a FireEye company, and focuses on incident response. Aldridge spoke with the Cipher Brief about the evolving cyber-threat, and […] More
The First 72 hours
Mayer Brown provides legal services to organizations across the globe and recently released a report entitled Preparing For and Responding to a Computer Security Incident: […] More
Blindspots to Avoid
Does your organization have a cybersecurity program in place with the primary objective of proactively identifying and managing the cyber threats that you face every […] More