eSentire and Carbon Black Release New Threat Intelligence Spotlight Report on the Shifting Framework of Modern Malware

WATERLOO, Ont. & WALTHAM, Mass. – October 1, 2019 – eSentire, Inc., the global leader in Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Carbon Black, a leader in cloud-native endpoint protection, today announced the release of a new Threat Intelligence Spotlight that highlights the increasing sophistication of modern malware. The new report coincides with the start of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the United States and Canada.

With modern malware becoming increasingly sophisticated, eSentire and Carbon Black conducted the Threat Intelligence Spotlight to provide a resource that can be used by anyone, regardless of their technical knowledge, to understand how malware works, and more importantly how to protect against its impact.

eSentire’s Threat Intelligence Spotlight: The Shifting Framework of Modern Malware draws on data gathered from both Carbon Black’s extensive endpoint protection install base and the more than 650 mid-sized organizations that eSentire protects. Analysis of this data by security analysts at both companies reveals interesting findings, which include:

• The median number of variants within a malware family is around 10, which begins to highlight the challenges faced by traditional endpoint solutions—and the largest number of variants within a family is more than 200
• It takes nearly 40 hours for the majority of legacy antivirus engines to detect some new forms of malware
• New variants of Emotet, a major malware family that recently returned after a four month hiatus, can spread to unprotected hosts on the same network in under 12 seconds
• Over two-thirds (67%) of all malware enters an organization via email

Sean Blenkhorn, Chief Product Officer, eSentire said: “The global malware ecosystem has matured beyond nuisance-causing and attention-grabbing activities into a massive business, complete with markets, vendors and outsourcing. Education is the first step in being able to protect against malware, and our new Treat Intelligence Spotlight provides the perfect foundation for anyone who wants to understand this issue in more detail.”

Tom Kellermann, Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Carbon Black said: “As attackers continue to evolve their techniques, visibility for defenders is absolutely paramount. Legacy antivirus solutions are proficient at one thing – stopping known commodity malware. As any security professional will tell you, commodity malware represents only a small fraction of today’s attacks. Modern attacks are often fileless, aim to gain persistence on the enterprise and often allow the attacker to move laterally. Modern endpoint protection is required for stopping modern attacks.”

The full report can be downloaded from: http://bit.ly/2ngamkG

About eSentire:
eSentire, Inc., the global leader in Managed Detection and Response (MDR), keeps organizations safe from constantly evolving cyber attacks that technology alone cannot prevent. Its 24x7 Security Operations Center (SOC), staffed by elite security analysts, hunts, investigates, and responds in real-time to known and unknown threats before they become business disrupting events. Protecting more than $6 trillion AUM in the financial sector alone, eSentire absorbs the complexity of cybersecurity, delivering enterprise-grade protection and the ability to comply with growing regulatory requirements. For more information, visit www.esentire.com and follow @eSentire.

About Carbon Black
Carbon Black (NASDAQ: CBLK) is a leader in cloud-native endpoint protection dedicated to keeping the world safe from cyberattacks. The CB Predictive Security Cloud® (PSC) consolidates endpoint security and IT operations into an endpoint protection platform (EPP) that prevents advanced threats, provides actionable insight and enables businesses of all sizes to simplify operations. By analyzing billions of security events per day across the globe, Carbon Black has key insights into attackers’ behaviors, enabling customers to detect, respond to and stop emerging attacks.

More than 5,600 global customers, including approximately one third of the Fortune 100, trust Carbon Black to protect their organizations from cyberattacks. The company’s partner ecosystem features more than 500 MSSPs, VARs, distributors and technology integrations, as well as many of the world’s leading IR firms, who use Carbon Black’s technology in more than 500 breach investigations per year.

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