Use this information to guide and fortify your defense, inform best practices, and prioritize resource allocation. Organizations that apply good security basics can demonstrably reduce their chances of falling victim to ransomware attacks and other cyber threats.
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Unpatched vulnerabilities remain the top Initial Access Vector (IAV) in ransomware attacks, accounting for nearly 50% of known IAVs. With the integration between Taegis™ XDR and Taegis VDR organizations can view known vulnerabilities in the context of threat data to accelerate investigation and remediation plans. Gain enhanced contextual insights and lower risk.
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Learn more in 'Combining Your SOC and Vulnerability Management Functions '
Learn more in 'Combining Your SOC and Vulnerability Management Functions'
Protect external-facing apps with phishing proof multi-factor authentication. MFA increases the level of effort an attacker must expend to compromise a user’s account.
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Require strong passwords that avoid common phrases and include more than 15 characters.
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Apply least privilege to both users and applications.
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Learn more in 'Proactively manage privileged accounts'
Limit supply chain access to your environment. Secure your supply chain by vetting business partners and implementing appropriate controls.
Learn more in 'Top Security Controls to Help Restrict Access '
Learn more in 'Top Security Controls to Help Restrict Access'
Ensure that Active Directory and Entra ID are properly configured, routinely tested, and maintained.
Learn more in 'Why Microsoft Entra and Secureworks MDR are a Perfect Fit '
Learn more in 'Why Microsoft Entra and Secureworks MDR are a Perfect Fit'
Limit exposure of your external assets. Engage the Secureworks Adversary Group (SwAG) to conduct periodic penetration testing to ensure internal and external assets are secure.
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Taegis XDR provides a single view to monitor, detect, and respond to threats across your endpoint, network, cloud, identity, OT, email and other infrastructure telemetry, allowing for smarter security outcomes.
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Automate your security operations to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
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Block 99%* of malicious activity on the network with Secureworks Taegis™ NDR.
Learn more in ' Secureworks Taegis NDR Buyer's Guide '
Taegis VDR provides a meaningful risk score for every vulnerability unique to your business context, and prioritizes them based on impact using 47 different factors, including Secureworks Counter Threat Unit™ intelligence.
Learn more in '2024 State of the Threat Report'
Use Taegis ManagedXDR for 24x7 threat detection, investigation, and response across entire attack surface.
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Subscribe to curated and timely threat intelligence to help you prioritize vulnerabilities and detections that may impact your unique environment.
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Supplement automated detection capabilities with continuous threat hunting, which applies human creativity and environmental context to focus on the assets that your organization needs to protect the most.
Learn more in 'Threat Hunting Assessment - Identify Cyber Threats '
Leveraging AI Secureworks has proven to reduce time to notify customers by over 80%.
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Find the root cause of threats by having visibility across all telemetry sources (endpoint, cloud, network, email, identity) with one year of data retention included with Taegis XDR (longer time periods available).
Learn more in 'Log Management | Log Data Retention Add-On for Taegis XDR'
Automatically detect known and previously unknown threats with a comprehensive library of threat detectors.
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Integrate existing endpoint, network, and cloud tools to bring together data from across your ecosystem into one central console, leaving threats with nowhere to hide using Taegis XDR and ManagedXDR.
Learn more in 'MDR is Solving Today’s Security Challenges'
Have an incident response plan that includes communications protocols, roles and responsibilities, and named contacts. Ensure contacts understand and can perform their role. Ensure plan is accessible when an incident occurs.
Learn more in 'Incident Response Expert Best Practices Q&A'
Use the right end point security that allows for threat prevention, response and investigation at scale, including response actions like host isolation.
Learn more in 'Endpoint Attacks, Endpoint Defenses, and Endpoint Time-Sink Avoidance'
Leverage built-in response playbooks to take action quickly and mitigate risks with Taegis XDR.
Learn more in 'Taegis Cloud-Native Enterprise Security Platform'
Ensure your backups are segmented from the network and protected from destructive malware. Regularly test the restoration of backups.
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Learn more in 'Security Controls for Rapid Response'
Establish partnerships to be leveraged during incident response before an incident occurs. Functions usually performed by partners include incident response, legal counsel, cyber insurance, and public affairs.
Learn more in 'Secureworks Global Partner Program'
Leverage post-incident response monitoring to ensure that the eviction of the adversary was successful and to identify successful or attempted re-entry.
Learn more in 'Top 3 Security Questions Boards Should Ask'
Conduct tabletop exercises with your executive team at least once annually to root out deficiencies and inefficiencies in your plan and team’s response actions.
Know in advance how to engage regulators, customers, and law enforcement in the event of a breach to ensure that information is shared at the right time, with the right level of detail, and via the most appropriate mechanisms.
Learn more in 'You’ve Been Compromised: Now What? A guide to action when a cyberattacker strikes'
Continuously monitor your environment for identity risks, misconfigurations, and stolen credentials on the dark web.
Learn more in 'Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)'
Once the attack is contained, remediate compromised hosts and conduct a reset on all Active Directory accounts.
Learn more in 'Ousting Threat Actors: 5 Steps to Ensure a Secure Network'
Know your critical information and system assets, where they live, and who owns them. Prioritize them in terms of recovery.
Learn more in 'Vulnerability Management | Vulnerability Prioritization'
Ransomware is one of the most prevalent and disruptive forms of cyberattack in recent years and has grown into a multimillion-dollar global enterprise. In ransomware attacks, a threat actor breaks into a network and then deploys malware that encrypts files on business-critical devices. They then demand a ransom payment in exchange for the secret key needed to decrypt the files.
Email services are lucrative targets for threat actors, yet are often overlooked by organizations. BEC exploits the fact that so many of us rely on email to conduct business. In BEC scams, criminals use access to a compromised email account to identify an upcoming financial transaction, and then replace the legitimate payment details with a bank account under their control. The buying party, totally unaware that anything is amiss, then pays their money into the fraudulent account.
Learn more in '2024 State of the Threat: A Year in Review'
In cryptojacking attacks, threat actors access one or more computers or mobile devices to run cryptocurrency-mining software. They abuse the resources of the compromised machines to mine cryptocurrency, causing cost and disruption to the victim. If that unauthorized access is to an organization’s cloud resources, then the criminals can quickly rack up massive costs.
Cyber espionage involves the theft of classified or sensitive data, or intellectual property. Typically, cyber espionage is done on behalf of a foreign government or intelligence service, however, corporations also engage in cyber espionage. Motivations for cyber espionage might include national security, economic espionage, or surveillance.
DDoS attacks make an online service, network resource, or host machine unavailable to its intended users on the internet — like flooding a website with requests so that legitimate users cannot access it. In distributed DDoS attacks, threat actors use several hosts to amplify the effects of the attack. DDoS attacks may be used in times of war by state-sponsored threat actors or hacktivists.
Learn more in 'Disruptive Attacks in Ukraine Blog'
With phishing, threat actors send emails or texts that attempt to trick the recipient into divulging sensitive information, like login credentials or bank details, or trick them into installing malware on their device. Typically, phishing attacks use social engineering tricks to appear authentic or urge the recipient to take action without thinking. In spear phishing attacks, rather than send out emails indiscriminately, the threat actor deliberately identifies their targets in advance.
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Threat actors use impersonation-based social engineering attacks to modify or obtain credentials and access corporate accounts. Organizations should implement technical controls and training to recognize common social engineering techniques.
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