Trend micro nac archive#

I mention microsegmentation because it evolved to deal primarily with enforcing separation and segmentation for mostly east-west communication in response to increased lateral movement attacks. The most common example of north-south communication is internet-webserver-appserver-dataserver. In a nutshell, microsegmentation is about being more explicit about what privileges zones have to communicate, and having more zones, and not limiting communication to ‘north-south’. Microsegmentation has been a very cool area of security tech. Lots of Security Technologies and Markets That Get Into the Discussion Another long serving principal has been least-privilege, meaning that you don’t allow entities to have more privilege than they need. It’s been a best practice that the last rule in a firewall rules base is almost always Deny-All. It turns out that denying untrusted entities goes back 30 years in firewalling as ‘Deny-All’.

Zero Trust seems to be a variation on Jericho and NAC, with instead of the focus being on self-defending hosts the model is based on not allowing activity to untrusted entities. NAC isn’t everywhere though because of other challenges, however NAC is a viable safeguard. This became the precursor that we would later call NAC, although NAC’s scope would be much more precise and deal better with availability. There was an improvement that the concept of unmanaged hosts could be an asset that was defended somehow. This was a pre-cursor to NAC, and the model had the flaw that the controller itself would become the target, including by DDOS. There was a variation on the Jericho-like models where a central security controller would be used to manage all security. There was interest in the idea of more secure hosts but the proposal had flaws in that there weren’t many organizations where all hosts were managed or controlled, and network or volumetric DDOS attacks meant even well managed hosts could be DOS’d without network controls. Quite a while back the Jericho Forum proposed a changed trust model to the effect that if hosts could be self-defending, then perimeter controls were not required. I’ll try and give my best take on what I understand Zero Trust to be.

Trend micro nac archive#

What’s even more disconcerting is that the apps aren’t the work of some small-time fly-by-night developer, but are believed to be distributed by well-known security software firm, Trend Micro.Īs pointed out in the tweet below, complaints about misbehaving Trend Micro apps were lodged on Malwarebytes forums as far back as in 2017, when user PeterNopSled claimed that the Open Any Files: RAR Support app was hijacking browsing history and uploading it to their servers in a zip archive with the password ‘novirus’.It’s always an indicator of confusion when instead of hearing “I want Q” I’m asked “what is Q?”. Antivirus and Open Any Files: RAR Support. According to research conducted by cyber-security researchers Thomas Reed of Malwarebytes, Patrick Wardle of Objective-See and several popular App Store apps not only access users’ private data against App Store guidelines, but have also been sending that info in zipped files to remote servers without user permission.Īpart from Adware Doctor, the apps that have so far been identified as behaving deceptively, include Dr.