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OSINT gathering key to keeping up with financial crime

Financial crimes investigation survey shows analysts hobbled by own firms

The 2020 Global Financial Crime Investigations Survey: 57% of analysts saw productivity stagnate or decline, introducing business and cyber…

5 Steps for secure malware analysis

Malware analysis is a tricky process. Incorrect handling leads to accidental self-exposure, which can be devastating depending on where the…

From the experts: social media monitoring and dark web investigations

Two cybersecurity veterans discuss the importance of integrating social media and dark web monitoring into organizations’ security…

Practice safe SECs: Cyber intelligence experts on building safe operational security and information security practices

What is operational security? Why is it important for the CISO? What’s an intelligence cycle, and how do you successfully execute its data…

Gaining efficiency in the overloaded SOC

Email-based and web-based attacks have unnecessarily overloaded SOCs with incidents to investigate and taken attention away from truly…

Election security: Defending our democracy against well-resourced adversaries

Election interference is about more than hacking voting machines. Hear from the experts on the role social media and other channels play…

The best defense is a good OSINT

Malicious actors affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) are utilizing publicly available data to identify vulnerabilities…

New training course on investigation enhancement through dark web use

Beyond the open, accessible internet lies the hidden world of the Dark Web. Because the Dark Web sites are not indexed or searchable by…