Cybersecurity

The recent Internet Crime Report from the FBI showcasing the growth of business email compromise (BEC) from a $700 million problem to a $1.3 billion problem over the course of only one year was certainly alarming. It showcases just how much cybercrime is growing, despite increased defenses across organizations worldwide.

If US-based companies don't start automating phishing incident response processes within their SOCs, they could be SOL, according to new data captured in our Q1 2019 Email Fraud & Identity Deception Trends Report.

Osterman Research has released a new industry report warning that many organizations will likely need to augment their Microsoft Office 365 implementations with best-in-class, third-party solutions—especially when it comes to advanced email threat protection.

Want to get a sense of the carnage being caused by business email compromise (BEC) attacks? Look no further than an October 16 report from the Securities and Exchange Commission on an investigation into nine publicly-traded companies that were swindled out of $100 million through BEC scams.

NYDFS, HIPAA, GDPR? As Cyber-defenses are Hardened to Comply with an Alphabet Soup of Regulatory Mandates, Organizations are Growing More Vulnerable to Cyberattack—Not Less

Name the industry, and it's safe to say that regulatory governance efforts have IT and security teams racing to erect new cyber-defenses to address a rising tide of domestic and international mandates.

On October 16, 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 18-01 that mandates the implementation of specific security standards to strengthen email and website security among government agencies.

We’ve very excited to welcome Norwest Venture Partners to the Agari family!

Norwest, the newest investor in Agari, led the Series D funding for $22M we announced earlier this week. Their interest in the Agari Email Trust Platform and its unique ability to stop targeted phishing attacked shouldn’t come as a surprise. They have a long history of investing in the cybersecurity space. Their portfolio includes security leaders including FireEye, Bitglass and more.

Over a year ago, Target publicly acknowledged the now infamous data breach. For many weeks afterwards, news of the Target breach dominated the headlines. Cyber security was no longer just a topic for security professionals; the topic had gone mainstream. Sadly, 2013 was quickly eclipsed by 2014 in terms of data breaches.

In a further expansion of the Agari Trust Network’s data exchange program, Agari and Palo Alto Networks have partnered to exchange email-based threat data. The idea is simple, but incredibly powerful.

1) Time to detection accelerated

One of the great things about a conference like BlackHat is that it gives people like me the opportunity to take a step back, get out of the specific back alleyways of cybersecurity that we usually inhabit, and take a broader, more holistic look at attack and defense. One concept that's been talked about for a while is the Cyber Kill Chain. It takes a military-theoretical approach to network asset defense that can be quite valuable.

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