Engaging in critical dialogue about the future of our industry.
Thought Leadership
Our thoughts on the security industry – where it is, where it needs to go.
Invincea believes that dramatic and rapid change is needed in the security industry. As a whole, we are clearly losing ground to our adversaries. Together, we can make the changes needed to put ourselves back on a dominant footing. Below are some of our recent thoughts on where we are and where we need to go to establish that footing.
Rethinking Security: Moving from Post Facto Breach Analysis to Detection | Prevention | Pre-Breach Forensics
Anup Ghosh – March 26, 2012
It’s more important than ever for a mentality shift in the security industry. We’ve allowed ourselves to fall victim to a lost decade in innovation and have become mired in what Invincea calls the security insanity cycle. With each new disclosure of massive pwnage across corporate, government and even security industry networks, we collectively become more and more cynical about our potential for getting a leg up on our adversaries.
Expanding the Invincea Malware Protection Platform
Steve Ward – February 29, 2012
At Invincea, we are laser focused on one mission – providing protection against the single biggest threat confronting corporations and governments today: cyber-breach.
We believe that the security industry desperately needs innovation in the area of prevention and have built our company to drive this innovation while focusing on the largest attack surface for breach: the user.
Cyber Spies Are Winning: Time to Reinvent Online Security
Anup K. Ghosh – November 18, 2011 - Forbes
At Invincea, we are laser focused on one mission – providing protection against the single biggest threat confronting corporations and governments today: cyber-breach.
We believe that the security industry desperately needs innovation in the area of prevention and have built our company to drive this innovation while focusing on the largest attack surface for breach: the user.
A Quick Look at a Spear Phishing Attempt
Steve Ward – April 19, 2012
Late last week, one of our Executives was the target of a spear-phishing attempt. Luckily, we did not fall victim to the attack as the target was using our Invincea BrowserProtection product (shameless plug, yes – but the solution worked). The attack used some clever social engineering tactics in an attempt to bait our Executive into becoming an Unwitting Accomplice.
Time to Change the Security Game
Anup K. Ghosh – March 29, 2011 - Info Security Magazine
Hackers today assume they’re winning, especially because the security industry is seemingly stuck on the ‘security insanity cycle’. Invincea’s Anup Ghosh offers insight into why the ‘cycle’ approach is simply not working when it comes to enhancing security and, unless security professionals change the way they think about it, they will be ‘winning’ a losing game
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Unwitting accomplices and complicit security teams
Anup K. Ghosh – February 25, 2011 - SC Magazine
The running joke for years among security professionals has been that if you want to eliminate risk, or truly secure the network, just get rid of the users. Obviously, this tongue-in-cheek statement belies an axiom of business – our users drive the success of the enterprise.
Curiosity not only kills the cat, it gets your network pwned
Anup K. Ghosh – December 9, 2010 - ZDNet
We need to protect the network from the user and the user from him or herself. Take security decisions out of the hands of the user, make their mistakes irrelevant to your overall security footing.
