Defensys has announced the new major release of the Defensys TDP 3.1, the technology for digital simulation of IT infrastructure. The release includes an updated mechanism of lures placement and open API.

With the new version of the Defensys TDP 3.1 users can configure lures placement policy by collecting basic information about machines: OS version, its language, and installed software. New approach of lures placement allows users to make them more reliable and realistic even in large networks. The full range of tools already deployed in the system for lures placement on clients’ hosts (incl. Microsoft SCCM, Ansible, Puppet) is available for CS specialists in the updated Defensys TDP version.

The developer has expanded the product’s integration capabilities with informational systems concerning restrictions, that often exist in large companies’ networks. For example, if records in DNS servers are prohibited in customer’s network, the Defensys TDP can transfer lists of non-existent DNS hostnames through API. This feature allows customers to add them autonomously. Moreover, it’s possible to provide the list of simulated login accounts for monitoring through a customer’s SIEM system.

Cybersecurity News

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Challenge

The Credit bureau with millions of loan and credit records was looking for automation tools to quickly respond on incidents, manage IT infrastructure and meet cyber security standards. Defensys solutions attracted Bureau’s attention, because they’re flexible, customizable and easy to work with. The Defensys SOAR and SGRC were chosen to meet the Company’s needs.

Implementation

As for the major part of our customers, Defensys’ team has integrated the SOAR and SGRC with an antivirus and AD. Furthermore, an integration with a data base was implemented to receive information regarding networks and equipment.

A challenging part for Defensys’s engineers was the integration with the platform, which is used as incident repository in the company. This platform also acts as the first line of the company’s SOC. Accordingly the Defensys SOAR has become the second SOC line. Due to this reason, the SOAR should constantly receive a lot of information, classify it, and save in its register. Limited integration functions of the Customer’s platform didn’t allow the Defensys team to implement a pre-installed connector, that’s why Defensys engineers managed to develop a customized integration to connect with the platform and transfer incident data to the SOAR.

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to announce that Defensys has released a new update of the Defensys SGRC Platform v. 5.4. Besides all the other features that will be highlighted soon, there is an update of the content base of the SGRC for our KSA customers and partners.

Beginning this month, Defensys SGRC includes the full set of 7 NCA controls, as well as the Guide to Essential Cybersecurity Controls implementation and Cybersecurity Toolkit, all readily available in the SGRC Documents library.

Furthermore, we are pleased to inform you that Defensys SGRC now supports SDAIA PDPL, which allows to launch compliance campaigns and assess how organization aligns with personal data protection requirements.

For more information on these enhancements, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

Thank you for your continued support.

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• An almost 6-year-old vulnerability in the Lighttpd web server used in Baseboard Management Controllers has been detected.

Cybersecurity News

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• Scientists have identified a vulnerability inVirtual Reality headsets that could let hackers access private information without the wearers’ knowledge.
• Researchers have developed ZenHammer, the first variant of the Rowhammer DRAM attack.

Cybersecurity News

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• Researchers have warned that of the critical vulnerability CVE-2024-21762 in Fortinet FortiOS. This flaw could potentially impact 150,000 exposed devices.
• The financially motivated hacking group Magnet Goblin uses various 1-day vulnerabilities to hack servers and install malware.

Cybersecurity News

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• PayPal has filed a patent application for a novel method that can identify when “super-cookie” is stolen. This could improve the cookie-based authentication mechanism and limit account takeover attacks.
• Researchers at Guardio Labs have discovered a massive email ad fraud campaign called SubdoMailing.

Defensys has released a new update of the Defensys SENSE Platform v. 1.16 to raise efficiency of companies’ information security. In the modified version detection scenarios were extended with new 15 anomalies. Additionally, the vendor has added a new section called “User profile” for object monitoring and has changed the timeline visualization for a quick artefacts collection during the investigation process.

Defensys has significantly changed the handling of monitored objects. The new section “User profile” immediately provides users with detailed data regarding all sessions of the monitored object, helps to analyze them in one tab and leave comments. Moreover, Defensys has divided event chronology into sessions and limited the display of the monitored object’s activity to one day. A wide range of data on a user’s behavior during a certain period of time is displayed for each session: anomalies, triggered alerts, users’ accounts, equipment, and overall rating. Now events of the same type are grouped in sessions to raise information value of the timeline and make it more convenient for data analysis. New functions allow CS specialists to promptly form the investigation context and to make the process of artefacts’ collection 3 times shorter.

Cybersecurity News

• Google is testing a new feature to prevent malicious public websites from pivoting through a user’s browser to attack devices and services on internal, private networks.
• Threat hunters have identified a new variant of Android malware called MoqHao. It automatically executes on infected devices without requiring any user interaction.
• Fortinet has patched a critical vulnerability that enables unauthenticated remote code execution.