The Cyber Kill Chain is a framework developed by Lockheed Martin for the identification and prevention of cyberattack activity. The model identifies what adversaries must complete in order to achieve their objective. Interrupt the chain, defeat the attack. Reconnaissance Installation Research, identification and selection of targets, looking for...

As cyber threats become more evasive, technology that protects organizations must have the capability to look deeper into the content flowing in and out of the network to ensure that the information being shared between users and recipients does not carry a harmful or sensitive payload. Increasingly, attackers are using seemingly innocuous image files to sneak ransomware and spyware into, or...

What is sanitization? Sanitization involves cleansing or purging files of dangerous hidden content. That content can be either active (for example, malware), or informational (such as hidden properties). An example of harmful code could be an invisible and malicious script on an otherwise legitimate web page or embedded into a document. Remediation for this requires structural sanitization. An...