Black Hat Series

There are a multitude of threat data sources used by Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and anti-malware products to strengthen enterprise protections. Differentiating in this competitive almost commodity service market is a matter of numbers.

securitycurrent's Vic Wheatman speaks with Jeff Harrell, Sr. Director of Product Marketing for Norse, a threat intelligence company that offers an appliance it says is designed to detect and defend against attacks from "darknets" as well as other Internet-based attacks. They talk about this saturated market and Harrell discusses the x-ray machine that was used to verify the validity of stolen credit cards.