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Great eXpeltations 2022: Cybersecurity trends and predictions
Introducing Great eXpeltations 2022: Cybersecurity trends and predictions — an annual report from our security operations center (SOC) on top threats, how to handle them, and what to expect this year.
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The Cycle Continues: Black Hat USA 2022 — Day 2 Recap
Day 2 of Black Hat USA 2022 focused on the importance of looking ahead to prepare for new attack strategies before they happen. Fortunately, the cybersecurity community is up to the challenge.
Back in Black (Hat): Black Hat USA 2022ーDay 1 Recap
Day 1 of Black Hat USA 2022 in Las Vegas focused on the outsized power of the cybersecurity community to do good.
Top 5 takeaways: Expel Quarterly Threat Report Q2
Our second quarterly (Q2) threat report is here and its chock full of cybersecurity data, trends, and recommendations to help you protect your organization. Here are our top five takeaways from Q2.
A defender’s MITRE ATT&CK cheat sheet for Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
In this new handy guide, we mapped the patterns we’ve seen throughout our GCP incident investigations to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework to help give you a head start protecting your organization.
How Expel’s Alert Similarity feature helps our customers
We process millions of alerts each day, and many look similar to one another. We asked ourselves: is it possible to teach our bots to compare similar “documents” and suggest or recommend a next step? (Spoiler alert: YES!)
Emerging Threat: BEC Payroll Fraud Advisory
Our SOC recently observed BEC attacks across multiple customer environments, targeting access to human capital management systems—specifically, Workday. The goal? Payroll and direct deposit fraud.
Viva Las Vegas! Expel heads to Black Hat
We’re gearing up for Hacker Summer Camp (AKA: Black Hat) as first time exhibitors! Here are all the reasons we’re so excited to geek out with you in Vegas, including booth info and welcome party deets.
Cutting Through the Noise: RIOT Enrichment Drives SOC Clarity
Read on to learn why we use the RIOT API to dispatch network security alerts that don't require further investigation and how these APIs parse the results for human consumption.
Detecting Coin Miners with Palo Alto Networks NGFW
With cryptojacking on the rise, we walk through why we’ve found Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall is great at detecting it, and some actions we’ve integrated into our detection bot to help.
Top 3 takeaways from RSA Conference 2022
It was four days of excitement as we made our exhibitor debut at #RSAC. Now that we’ve had time to reflect on this year’s conference, here are three of the big takeaways from our time at Moscone.