Blogs About Moving Target Defense

Globally, ransomware is big business, with millions of attacks targeting organizations every day. Not every attack is financially successful, but with keen attention to detail, attackers have (and continue to) tune tactics, making ransomware a...

(Updated March 29th, 2024)

The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) has long been a crucial resource for organizations in managing their vulnerability lifecycle and ensuring the security of their systems. However, recent developments have...

Gartner® has published a new report focused onAutomated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) technology innovation. According to Gartner: “Combining AMTD solutions at different layers of the technology stack provides innovation leaders with a highly...

There’s now a new ransomware attack, on average, every 10 seconds. Threat actors have become powerful and sophisticated enough to successfully hold national governments—such as Ireland and Costa Rica—to ransom. 

Few executives doubt their organizations must pay more attention to cybersecurity. Cybercrime costs were estimated at $8.4 trillion globally in 2022 alone, and could exceed $20 trillion by 2026. No organization can afford to ignore this risk.

Fileless malware attacks are a malicious code execution technique that works completely within process memory. In a fileless attack, no files are dropped onto a hard drive. With no artifacts on the hard drive to detect, these attacks easily evade...

Morphisec has recently identified a highly evasive malware campaign delivering ProxyShellMiner to Windows endpoints.

ChatGPT is a powerful AI chatbot that uses a huge data collection and natural language processing to “converse” with users in a way that feels like a normal, human conversation. Its ease of use and relatively high accuracy has seen users leverage it...

For the second consecutive year, Gartner has highlighted Moving Target Defense (MTD) as a featured technology, and Morphisec as a Sample Vendor for the technology in their report, Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Security. The authors define MTD as “......

On a scale of one to ten, how effective is the status quo approach to server security?In theory, it should be ten. The path to keeping servers protected from the outside world (segmentation, firewalls, vulnerability patching, security solutions...

The evidence is clear that despite expanding cybersecurity investment, sophisticated cyberthreats are increasingly successful. Household brands like Uber and Apple, essential service providers like Colonial Pipeline, and even entire nation states...

In the last couple of years, security teams in large enterprises and high-profile government organizations have increasingly experienced a new form of attack. This attack leverages the supply chain of an organization’s software ecosystem (and less...

On the dark web, private health information (PHI) sells for up to $1,000 per record. In response to surging healthcare cyberattacks, it's now glaringly obvious that data security in healthcare needs to go in a new direction.

In the last few years, organizations in every sector have witnessed a clear shift in the threat landscape. Although the number and frequency of all kinds of cyberattacks increased, ransomware in particular has undergone extremely rapid evolution....

Ransomware attacks have undergone a pandemic-accelerated evolution in recent years—and defenses have struggled to keep up. The first phase of ransomware has given way to something new and different, better and worse. To help understand this...

Shoe shops and security operation centers have something in common. One size fits all solutions are not a great idea in either area. Unfortunately for security professionals trying to secure Linux servers, purpose-built Linux solutions are...

Not long ago, the term “Linux protection” was closer to an oxymoron than a strategy. For security teams and vendors alike, Linux systems were seen as being either immune to cyber threats or not something threat actors targeted.

"Make do and mend." If you work in IT security, this slogan, from a pamphlet issued by the British government in 1943, probably resonates. In security, constant mending—i.e. patching, is a fact of life. So what is virtual patching and why would you...

Ransomware attacks have never been more dangerous, or prolific. 2020 was described by security experts and media outlets as the "worst year ever for ransomware." Then ransomware attacks grew by 105 percent between 2020 and 2021. This cyberwar has...

For small and medium businesses (SMBs), digital transformation has been a double edged sword. Cloud technologies and IoT devices have boosted productivity during a punishing pandemic where every dollar counts. But these advances have come at a cost....