Protecting People

Five Minute Forecast for the week of October 4th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  The U.K. makes plans to strike back against future cyber attacks  President Biden rallies international support in the fight against ransomware  Six thousand Coinbase customers fall victim to an account recovery vulnerability  Joining us is Selena Lars...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of September 27th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  No honor among thieves as REvil is caught stealing by its own affiliates  America’s food supply under attack from Ransomware  New mobile malware emerges in North America  Joining us is Adam McNeil, Senior Threat Researcher at Cloudmark to discuss a...

Gone are the days of 2016 when we saw 12 million ransomware attachments randomly blasted out per day. It’s 2021 now, when threat actors selectively deploy ransomware against high value targets across the victim organization’s entire network in order to secure initial access. Why is initial access so often overlooked in protecting against the multiplicity of ransomware threats? In the inaugural epi...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of September 20th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  The government blitz on cyber crime takes aim at Bitcoin  Grief ahead for victims of one ransomware gang  The FBI counts the cost of romance scams  Joining us is Proofpoint Senior Threat Researcher, Daniel Blackford, to discuss the relationship betw...

Guess how many organizations found they had an insider threat incident at least once — 69%. Of the remaining 31%, it’s most likely the case that they simply don’t have the capability to identify insider threats, not that they were incident-free. In this episode, series host Sai Chavali speaks with Proofpoint’s Deborah Watson, Resident CISO, and Jeremy Wittkop, Senior Director, Technology Services,...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of September 13th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  Cyber criminals infiltrate the UN  Vacation’s over as REvil returns  And Yandex is battered by a history-making attack  Joining us is Proofpoint Threat Analyst, Davide Canali, to discuss a cryptocurrency spin on one of the oldest attacks in the book...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of September 6th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  • Billions of devices at risk from Bluetooth bugs  • Ransomware source code leaked online  • Funny business on Banksy’s website – but for once the artist isn’t to blame  Joining us is Sherrod DeGrippo, Proofpoint’s Vice President, Threat Research and...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of August 30th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  Tech’s biggest hitters join the fight against cyber attacks  Samsung reveals a secret ‘kill switch’ hidden in its televisions  Attackers are still profiting from fear and doubt over the pandemic   Joining us is Selena Larson, Proofpoint Senior Threat I...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of August 23rd. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  Anonymous sources confirm a potentially serious breach at the State Department  Data theft puts telecom giants in the spotlight  A ransomware gang seeks insider help  Joining us is Selena Larson, Proofpoint Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst, to talk t...

Remote desktop protocol, email vector, and VPN — the three most common methods of ransomware attack. However, virtually 100% of all attacks still rely on human vulnerability, not software vulnerability… Making security awareness training one of your most valuable shields against ransomware. In this Expert Insights episode, we interview Neko Papez, Manager, Product Marketing at Proofpoint, about ch...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of August 16th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  Most Americans think the government can’t keep them safe from cyber attacks  DarkSide still tapping Colonial Pipeline months after their initial breach A cryptocurrency thief steals a record haul before giving it all back  Joining us is Ryan Kalember,...

What is it that we didn’t know that we should have known? Many incident response plans miss this crucial question, but it’s absolutely foundational to learning how you can prevent the incident from happening again. In this episode, we talk with Matt Stamper, CISO at EVOTEK, about the most important elements of an incident response plan and why security awareness has the largest return from a threa...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of August 9th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  CISA announces a new public-private task force featuring some of the biggest names in tech  The Conti ransomware gang’s playbook leaks online  And millions of home internet routers potentially at risk  Joining us is Brian Reed, Proofpoint’s cyber securi...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of August 2nd. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  Don’t ban ransomware payments, the FBI warns congress  A new ransomware gang rises from the ashes of REvil and DarkSide  And Iranian cyber attackers play the long game   Joining us is Sherrod DeGrippo, Proofpoint’s Senior Director of Threat Research and...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of July 26th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  China denies involvement in cyber crime and points the finger at the United States  Kaseya unlocks ransomed systems after getting its hands on an R-Evil decryption key  More printer woes for Windows users as yet another vulnerability is discovered  Joini...

Fraudsters who perpetrate BEC and various other types of email scams are a serious and continuous threat to businesses today. In 2019, there were 26.2 billion dollars in reported losses from these kinds of malicious malware attacks. For part two of our Expert Insights into Business Email Compromise (BEC) and email fraud protection, host Sherrod DeGrippo leads a lively discourse with Robert Holmes,...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of July 19th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  Human rights activists around the world are targeted with military-grade spyware  Yet more trouble at Solar Winds, as a new zero day vulnerability lets in attackers  A high-profile ransomware group goes dark, but are they really gone or just on vacation?...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of July 12th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  A patch is released for Microsoft’s Printer bug, but the nightmare isn’t over for everyone  Attackers send out fake security updates for the recent Kaseya supply chain breach  And a ransomware gang’s gotta catch ‘em all as they demand rare Pokemon cards...

Business Email Compromise, or BEC, is a type of scam that utilizes social engineering to trick companies into paying fraudulent invoices or giving up sensitive information that can be used for a future attack. Malware, phishing, BEC, and thread hijacking. The “baddies,” as one of today’s guests charmingly anoints them, utilize these deep, complicated attacks because the rewards are so very great -...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of July 5th. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  No letup in sight from the recent wave of cyber attacks  Solar Winds still blowing as notorious attacker strikes again  And cracked versions of popular video games provide a crypto-mining bounty  Joining us is Proofpoint Threat Researcher Selena Larson wi...

Proofpoint has concluded 3 of their 2021 conferences: Wisdom, Protect, & Protect EMEA with great success; highlighting their guest speakers and information protection—the show takes a behind-the-scenes look at the action. Tim Choi, Vice President Product Marketing at Proofpoint, joins the show to discuss the Proofpoint conferences. What we talked about: - The Structure of the Protect, Protect EMEA...

June 28. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast.  The NSA opens its doors to the cyber security research community San Francisco’s water supply is threatened by a digital breach  And copyright activists block access to piracy sites with an unusual piece of malware  Joining us is Proofpoint Threat Researcher Selena Larson, to explain why cybe...

Five Minute Forecast for the week of June 21. All the cyber security news you need to stay ahead, from Proofpoint’s Protecting People podcast Presidents Biden and Putin butt heads over cyber security strategy US businesses pay big money to ransomware gangs, but the FBI is clawing some of it back And attackers hide in plain sight on Steam – a popular gaming platform Joining us is Proofpoint Threat...

About 85% of threats involve some sort of human interaction, and about 50% of organizations have experienced a successful phishing attack. So, attacks are overwhelmingly focused on people. In a recent Expert Insights episode of Protecting People, we spoke with Brett Shaw, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Proofpoint, about some of the latest trends in the threat landscape — and how to protect pe...

Let’s talk about the adversarial relationship between end users and vendors. Things could improve in both directions. In this episode, we interview Dan Holden, VP of Cyber Security at BigCommerce, about anger, angst, and ‘forgivability’ in the vendor/end user relationship. What we talked about: - It’s more about fit than about vendor or product - The advantages of building a vendor relationship wi...