Category: Blog Posts

CryptoniteNXT is hosting a live challenge at ShmooCon 2023 in Washington, D.C. January 20-22. Stop by the CryptoniteNXT / BlueHalo booth at the conference to see the area’s best hackers go up against CryptoniteNXT for prizes and glory. In this timed challenge, attackers are trying to gather information, gain access, and discover information about the […]

CryptoniteNXT is pleased to announce the release of version 3.4. This release is a feature release with several significant additions. Virtual interfaces may now be configured to simplify deployment in networks where existing subnets were used for isolation prior to installation of CryptoniteNXT. Devices in virtual interfaces have various new automations to simplify onboarding, control […]

The CryptoniteNXT Battle Royale was a live-challenge event hosted at Halo U on February 24, 2022, when two of BlueHalo’s elite ethical hackers tried to get around CryptoniteNXT. Watch as BlueHalo engineers employ different techniques and learn about CryptoniteNXT’s power in the process! A recording of the event is available here.

CryptoniteNXT is pleased to announce the release of version 3.3. This feature release includes additional DHCP configuration options including the ability to directly specify reservations. To simplify policy creation, groups can now be easily created from the current filter results when viewing endpoints or events. Improvements to event severity throughout the user interface allow admins […]

CryptoniteNXT is pleased to announce the release of version 3.2. This release improves usability in a number of areas including improved processes for using TLS certificates for the portal and admin UI, improved information about IP addresses in certain events, and additional configuration to simplify maintenance tasks. CryptoniteNXT now provides both manufacturer and estimated manufacture […]

AB 375, entitled the California Consumer Privacy Act, was approved by the California State Governor on June 28, 2018, and goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The law applies to any business that meets one of these criteria and does business in the State of California: Revenue over $25 million; Buys or sells the […]

Health care networks have been under constant and continuous attack for the theft of medical records. Between 2009 and 2017 there have been over 2,100+ healthcare data breaches involving more than 500 records. Those breaches alone have resulted in the theft of 175 million healthcare records. Consider that number again. 175 million records is more […]

Per our earlier blog on this topic, Zero Trust is a new cybersecurity strategy for hardening your cyber defense to meet (and defeat) the recent waves of advanced cyberattacks. Zero Trust is compatible with your existing perimeter defense strategy and enables you to bring in additional technology layers to complement and support your existing cybersecurity […]

Cybercrime rates continue to soar. The fact is that your security operations center (SOC) is both your front line and last line of defense. The volume of cyberattacks is increasing, as is the relative speed of individual attacks. At Cryptonite, we measure relative speed as the time measured from initial network or endpoint penetration, followed […]

As a security professional, you already know that TCP/IP networks were not designed with security as the primary goal is. At some point in time, cyberattackers will penetrate your network perimeter. Once inside, they have free and virtually unrestricted movement. They can search and enumerate the network, and then almost as quickly, determine the vulnerabilities […]