If There Was a Flu Inoculation for Malware, Would You Get It?
It’s inevitable that we’ll have to fight off some sort of strain of flu during the winter season. Without adequate protection, the same goes for malware. Flu inoculations are unreliable due to the...
View ArticleFixing “the Cybers” in Washington DC
The challenge: collapse fifteen years of experience into a one-page recommendation. Keeping the government safe from cyber villains is a shared responsibility. This is part one of two parts about my...
View ArticleThe Antivirus Dead Canary Sketch
Darren Bilby, Google Senior Security Engineer, describes antivirus like a canary in a coal mine. Mathematician Alan Turing proved that AV is an impossible problem in 1936, long before malware existed....
View ArticleClient-Side Virtualization Security at Warp Speed!
Virtualization based security stops what next-gen antivirus misses! Now you can have virtualization based security & peak performance. With more than one billion micro-VMs launched, we’ve had no...
View ArticleOur New Premium Support Delivers Faster Time-to-Value for Customers
Rapid expansion in enterprise market is driving the need for additional customer service options. New premium support on par with the best from enterprise vendors. Certification is also available for...
View ArticleYou Hacked – Ransomware Attack on Muni Demonstrates Need for Isolation
As shoppers converged in San Francisco this weekend for holiday shopping, the Municipal Transport Agency (MUNI) was hit with HDDCryptor ransomware Customers rode free, while the city lost $559,000 per...
View ArticleWhy Employees can be a Security Risk for Hospitals
Large quantities of sensitive data held by hospitals are being targeted by hackers. 90% of employees in hospitals failed a CynergisTek phishing test Bromium protects companies from the unknown There’s...
View ArticleElections, Cybersecurity and Human Nature – Why This Matters to Corporate...
Update: since we published this blog, the following news broke: “Suspected Russian cyber-crime group, APT 29 or Cozy Bear, are suspected in a series of spear-phishing campaigns aimed at compromising US...
View ArticleCrosby on the Real Hacking Risks for the US Election
We’ve taken elections for granted for our entire lives. We vote, we go home and we watch the returns on television. But with technology becoming part of the process, does that mean we putting...
View ArticleData Loss Prevention Comes Free with Bromium
Bromium does more than provide powerful isolation protection for endpoints and servers. We provide DLP controls that can help you strengthen your security. At no additional cost, you can apply quite...
View ArticleBromium is a Distinguished Security Vendor in the 2017 TAG Cyber Annual
Released today, Ed Amoroso’s 2017 TAG Cyber Security Annual – a practical guide for anyone serious about cybersecurity. Simon Crosby talks about his experience with Ed and why this compendium is worth...
View ArticleBromium Partners to Bring Micro-virtualization to Windows 10
Bromium has partnered with Microsoft to ensure Bromium micro-virtualization and Windows 10 will work better together to provide the most secure endpoint solution on the market. Windows 10 offers...
View ArticleChasing the White Whale: How Advanced Attacks Leverage Spear Phishing
Update: Breaking News: ICANN targeted in a spear phishing attack Information security becomes increasingly important as the frequency of cyber attacks increases. From Target to Sony, the past 12 months...
View ArticleMany Eyes Make Credible Security
We are proud to announce the successful results of an independent source-code review and penetration test of vSentry version 2.4 by the leading security consultancy IOActive – acknowledged as one of...
View ArticleGoldilocks and the 3 Theres (1/2)
At VMWorld VMware SVP of Security Tom Korn described the hypervisor and virtual network environment of a virtual infrastructure platform as the “Goldilocks Zone” for application security in the...
View ArticleBlack Hat Survey: End Users Remain Biggest Security Headache as Compromised...
Earlier this year, Bromium published “Endpoint Protection: Attitudes and Opinions,” a statistical analysis of more than 300 information security professionals. The results revealed that endpoints are...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Enterprise Security
Every day, enterprises are bombarded by rapidly multiplying and morphing advanced threats—and current network and endpoint security solutions aren’t capable of defeating these targeted attacks. This...
View ArticleHow do you spell “Polymorphic”?
I guess the answer is “i r o n y”: Last week a Bromium field employee searched for “polymorphic” on dictionary.com and was treated to a gloriously literal definition: The site dropped a banking...
View ArticleDetectible Dysfunction
In 2003, security industry analyst Richard Stiennon famously declared that intrusion detection systems would be obsolete by 2005, writing at the time: “The underlying problem with IDS is that...
View ArticleIf you had only one more security dollar…
what would you spend it on? Improve endpoint security, or better protect your network or your applications? This was the topic debated by three Gartner security analysts: Neil MacDonald (endpoint),...
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