{"id":13092,"date":"2019-08-19T10:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T05:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=13092"},"modified":"2019-08-19T10:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T05:09:05","slug":"new-cyber-research-records-a-91-reduction-in-dwell-time-for-users-of-deception-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/new-cyber-research-records-a-91-reduction-in-dwell-time-for-users-of-deception-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cyber Research Records a 91% Reduction in Dwell Time for Users of Deception Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u2022 70% of Users Highly Familiar with Deception Technology Report a High Confidence for Detecting In-Network Threats \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Attivo Networks, the award-winning leader in deception for cybersecurity threat detection, today announced the availability of a new research report, conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and commissioned by Attivo Networks, that explores attitudes and views of deception technology in the enterprise. The research uncovered material contrasts between users and non-users of deception technologies. One of the most significant findings is that users of deception technology reported a 12X improvement in the average number of days it takes to detect attackers operating within an enterprise network when compared to those unfamiliar with the technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Other studies conducted by incident response service providers or endpoint detection and response vendors suggest an average of 78 to over 100 days, while survey respondents that are highly familiar users of deception technology reported dwell times as low as 5.5 days. Seventy percent of respondents highly familiar with and currently using deception technology rated their organizations as highly effective as compared to 49% reported from the aggregate of all users, including deception technology users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The research explored:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The primary motivation for looking at deception technology. 67% of respondents evaluating or planning to look at deception technology cited the speed of detecting threats early in the attack lifecycle as the primary driver behind their interest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Nineteen different use cases including detection, ransomware, data loss tracking and counterintelligence, and insider policy violations. Notably, when respondents ranked 12 security tools for detecting insider threats, 30% ranked deception technology, tied with next-generation endpoint security, as the most effective tool in detecting insider threats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Respondents reported deployment environments including the cloud (27%), IoT\/OT\/Specialized (15%), remote locations (11%), and headquarter offices (10%), validating the utilization across diverse attack surfaces. These findings are consistent with the detection survey conducted in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/go.attivonetworks.com\/DeceptionSurveyReport2018.html\">2018 by Attivo Networks<\/a>, where 62% of respondents rated cloud and 34% identified OT\/specialized environments as the top attack surfaces of concern.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The unique value and benefits of deception technology. The survey provided nine choices with the top five benefits cited as faster incident response (13%), detection of basic and advanced threats regardless of techniques (12%), more actionable alerts (12%), intelligence on attacker movement techniques and targets (12%), and visibility to attack paths and credential vulnerabilities (12%).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The value of deception technology is evident as 71% of respondents cited that they have achieved a significantly to somewhat higher value from the technology than initially expected. 84% stated that they planned to increase their spending in the future.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cAttacker dwell time has become a measure of security effectiveness for many organizations, and the industry as a whole has seen incremental progress in reducing the number of days that attackers remain undetected within enterprise networks. But a 91% reduction in dwell time \u2013 down to 5.5 days \u2013 is the most dramatic decrease any study we have done has ever documented,\u201d <strong>said Paula Musich, research director in security and risk management at Enterprise Management Associates in Boulder, Colo.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cQuantifying the ROI of security controls can be extremely challenging and is often tied to overall breach metrics that can be heavily debated,\u201d <strong>says Carolyn Crandall, Chief Deception Officer and CMO of Attivo Networks.<\/strong> \u201cThis survey is particularly interesting in that it quantifies the specific value derived and the sentiment of deception technology users compared to non-users.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Crandall continues, \u201cCybersecurity has traditionally been a \u2018cat and mouse game\u2019 between IT teams and cyber attackers, with a cybercriminal\u2019s arsenal continually evolving. Deception technology, however, shifts power back to the defender, giving organizations visibility and early detection, company-specific threat intelligence, and faster incident response.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u2022 To download the report: \u2018A Definitive Market Guide to Deception Technology\u2019 and to find out more about deception technology, visit here : <a href=\"https:\/\/go.attivonetworks.com\/EMA-Definitive-Market-Guide-to-Deception-Technology-Research-Paper-2019.html\">https:\/\/go.attivonetworks.com\/EMA-Definitive-Market-Guide-to-Deception-Technology-Research-Paper-2019.html<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 70% of Users Highly Familiar with Deception Technology Report a High Confidence for Detecting In-Network Threats \u00a0 Attivo Networks, the award-winning leader in deception for cybersecurity threat detection, today announced the availability of a new research report, conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and commissioned by Attivo Networks, that explores attitudes and views of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7169,7170,7171,7168],"class_list":{"0":"post-13092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cyber-security","7":"tag-attivo-networks","8":"tag-attivo-networks-research-reports","9":"tag-deception-technology","10":"tag-enterprise-management-associates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}