Sift Security + Visa Threat Intelligence

Incident responders and threat hunters depend on high fidelity threat intelligence to get early notification of attacks. Threat intelligence is most useful when it describes attacks targeting peer organizations and it includes important contextual information. This contextual information can include what types of attacks the indicators of compromise (IoCs) represent, when they were first observed, and how they are related to other IoCs.

Sift Security has teamed up with Visa Threat Intelligence (VTI) to help merchants determine if they have been a target of a breach and to avoid future breaches. VTI provides high fidelity IoCs curated by Visa’s Risk and Fraud team, who work with merchants to collect and analyze TTP’s (Tactics, Techniques & Procedures) used by crime organizations during a breaches targeting merchants. Sift Security combines VTI into our security graph analytics platform to enable timely notification of potential breaches and effective threat hunting.

To help you see how Sift Security + VTI could benefit your organization, we have posted a Case Study describing how we leveraged VTI to find multiple security incidents at a tech company in Silicon Valley, and a Video showing how we did this using our product.

If you think you might be able to benefit from Sift Security + VTI, consider a security assessment. The goal of an assessment is to identify and investigate potential risks within your organization. During the assessment, we will:

Ingest 1-3 months of data from your network, endpoints, and payment systems
Cross reference your data against the most recent VTI indicators
Create a prioritized list of potential risks within your organization
Help you investigate these risks
Create a Security Assessment Report

Data Exfiltration from AWS S3 Buckets

You will have no doubt heard by now about the recent Booz Allen Hamilton breach that took place on Amazon Web Services – in short, a shocking collection of 60,000 government sensitive files were left on a public S3 bucket (file storage in Amazon Web Services) for all to see. We are all probably too overwhelmed to care, given all the recent breaches we have been hearing about in the news. But with this breach it was different, it involved a trusted and appointed contractor whose job it was to follow security policies, put in place to avoid such incidents. So was this incident accidental or malicious? More, later about the tools we can use to tell the difference between the two. First, lets recap what happened. The Incident According to Gizmodo , the 28GB of data that was leaked not only contained sensitive information on recent government projects, but at least a half dozen unencrypted passwords belonging to government contractors with Top Secret Clearance – meaning anyone who got

Sift Joins Netskope, the Cloud Security Leader

Four years ago, we started Sift with the mission of simplifying security operations and incident response for the public cloud. In that time, we have assembled a fantastic team, created an innovative cloud detection and response solution, and have worked with many market-leading customers. I’m delighted to share that we’ve taken yet another step forward — as announced today, Sift is now officially part of Netskope. You can read more about this on Netskope CEO Sanjay Beri’s blog or in the official announcement on the Netskope website. For our customers, investors, partners, and team, this is an exciting new chapter. Let me tell you why we’re so excited. Since the beginning, Netskope has had an unmatched vision for the cloud security market. Having started in 2012, they initially focused on SaaS security and quickly followed that with IaaS security capabilities. Six years later, they are now more than 500 employees strong and used by a quarter of the Fortune 100. They are a l

Sift Security vs. Elastic Search and Elastic Graph

We are often asked, “What is the difference between Sift Security and Elastic Graph ?” This is a great question that typically comes from folks who are already familiar with Elasticsearch [0] and Elastic Graph [1]. The answer boils down to the following: Elastic Graph is a tool for visualizing arbitrary aggregate search results. Elasticsearch is a Restful search that distributed, and has analytics engine that solves a number of use cases such as mapping from Python to ES REST endpoints. Sift Security uses a graph database to simplify and accelerate specific security use cases. In this blog post, we describe the advantages of each of these approaches, and conclude with a discussion of when to use each. Advantages of Sift Security vs ElasticSearch and Elastic Graph Query speed Sift Security builds a property graph to represent security log events at ingestion time. We do this work at ingestion time for one reason: to speed up common investigative queries. When investi

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