SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2024--
HYAS Infosec, the adversary infrastructure platform provider that offers unparalleled visibility, protection, and security against all kinds of malware and attacks, today announced that it has won ten Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, which rank among the sector’s most prestigious honors.
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HYAS’s highest honors in the 2024 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards include:
Best Security Investigation - HYAS Insight
Best Threat Intelligence - HYAS Insight
Best Threat Hunting - HYAS Insight
Best Fraud Protection - HYAS Insight
Best Fraud Prevention - HYAS Insight
Best Free Cybersecurity Tool - HYAS Insight Intel Feed
Best DNS Security - HYAS Protect
Best Breach Protection - HYAS Protect
Best Network Security - HYAS Protect
Best Connected Home - HYAS Protect At Home
The HYAS Winners Circle:
HYAS Insight: Winner of Five 2024 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards including: Best Security Investigation, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, Fraud Protection and Fraud Prevention
Trusted by numerous Fortune 500 companies and law enforcement agencies worldwide, HYAS Insight threat intelligence and investigation platform leverages exclusive data sources and innovative collection methods to empower security and fraud investigations. It lets organizations preemptively identify attacker infrastructure to understand current threats and proactively prevent future attacks. HYAS Insight delivers unprecedented visibility into every aspect of an attack, focusing on “VRA” or verdicts-related infrastructure, and actor attribution, meaning that HYAS Insight not only drives an understanding of the current attack and infrastructure in use but also provides proactive alerts and key intelligence around future attacks and evasion tactics.
HYAS Insight Intel Feed: Best Free Cybersecurity Tool
A new class of intelligence feed that supports SOC triage processes, incident response, and threat hunting, HYAS Insight Intel Feed enables CTI teams to provide better insight and analysis on malware infrastructure and enables fraud teams to conduct more accurate and thorough research and investigations – far more quickly.
HYAS Protect: Best DNS Security, Best Network Security and Best Breach Protection
Globally recognized independent testing confirms that the HYAS Protect protective DNS solution provides the highest level of cybersecurity protection of all protective DNS solutions tested. Built on the underpinning technology of HYAS Insight threat intelligence, HYAS Protect plays a pivotal role in the implementation of zero-trust and cyber resiliency. It couples authoritative knowledge of attacker infrastructure and unrivaled domain-based intelligence to proactively enforce security and block the command and control (C2) communication that malware, ransomware, phishing, supply-chain, and other forms of cyber-attacks depend on, thwarting cyber threats before they can do damage and ensuring that organizations are resilient today against tomorrow’s attacks.
HYAS Protect At Home: Best Connected Home Solution
Cybersecurity professionals are at high risk of both retaliatory actions and of probes and attacks from previously unencountered threat actors looking to test their tradecraft and grow their reputation. HYAS Protect At Home allows users free access to an enterprise-grade protective DNS solution for their home networks to proactively detect and block communication to and from adversarial domains to help harden their home networks against cyberattacks.
“Congratulations HYAS on being recognized as an award winner in ten categories of the 2024 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards,” said Holger Schulze, CEO of Cybersecurity Insiders and founder of the 600,000-member Information Security Community on LinkedIn, which organizes the 9th annual Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. “With over 600 entries across more than 300 categories, the awards are highly competitive. Your achievement reflects outstanding commitment to the core principles of excellence, innovation, and leadership in cybersecurity.”
“We are committed to helping our clients, partners, and the global cybersecurity ecosystem proactively detect and protect against adversaries and attacks,” said David Ratner, CEO, HYAS. “We recognize that the threats they face are more perilous than the community may have even imagined a mere decade ago.”
“We’re deeply honored by the many, many wins that HYAS Insight and HYAS Protect have garnered over the last year, and even more heartened by the enthusiasm with which our free tools – HYAS Insight Intel Feed and HYAS Protect At Home – have been received,” David continued. “We also congratulate our fellow applicants, who share our commitment to gain advantage over malicious threat actors, and Holger Schulze, who leads the LinkedIn Information Security Community and provides such an important conduit for resource sharing. Thank you for these ten prestigious honors!”
Additional Resources:
To register for the free HYAS Protect At Home, visit: https://pages.hyas.com/hyas_protect_at_home
To register for the free HYAS Insight Intel Feed, visit: https://pages.hyas.com/hyas-insight-intel-feed-registration
About HYAS
HYAS is a world-leading authority on cyber adversary infrastructure and communication to that infrastructure. HYAS is dedicated to protecting organizations and solving intelligence problems through detection of adversary infrastructure and anomalous communication patterns. HYAS turns metadata into actionable threat intelligence, actual adversary visibility, and protective DNS that renders malware inoperable. For more information visit https://www.hyas.com/
HYAS Sweeps Cybersecurity Excellence Awards with Ten Wins. (Graphic: Business Wire)
JERUSALEM (AP) — The helicopter crash in which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials were killed is likely to reverberate across the Middle East, where Iran’s influence runs wide and deep.
That's because Iran has spent decades supporting armed groups and militants in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and the Palestinian territories, allowing it to project power and potentially deter attacks from the United States or Israel, the sworn enemies of its 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Tensions have never been higher than they were last month, when Iran under Raisi and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel in response to an airstrike on an Iranian Consulate in Syria that killed two Iranian generals and five officers.
Israel, with the help of the United States, Britain, Jordan and others, intercepted nearly all the projectiles. In response, Israel apparently launched its own strike against an air defense radar system in the Iranian city of Isfahan, causing no casualties but sending an unmistakable message.
The sides have waged a shadow war of covert operations and cyberattacks for years, but the exchange of fire in April was their first direct military confrontation.
The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has drawn in other Iranian allies, with each attack and counterattack threatening to set off a wider war.
It's a combustible mix that could be ignited by unexpected events, such as Sunday's deadly crash.
Israel has long viewed Iran as its greatest threat because of Tehran's controversial nuclear program, its ballistic missiles and its support for armed groups sworn to Israel's destruction.
Iran views itself as the chief patron of Palestinian resistance to Israeli rule, and top officials for years have called for Israel to be wiped off the map.
Raisi, who was a hard-liner viewed as a protégé and possible successor of Khamenei, chastised Israel last month, saying “the Zionist Israeli regime has been committing oppression against the people of Palestine for 75 years.”
“First of all we have to expel the usurpers, secondly we should make them pay the cost for all the damages they have created, and thirdly, we have to bring to justice the oppressor and usurper," he said.
Israel is believed to have carried out numerous attacks over the years targeting senior Iranian military officials and nuclear scientists.
There is no evidence Israel was involved in Sunday's helicopter crash, and Israeli officials have not commented on the incident.
Arab countries on the Persian Gulf have also long viewed Iran with suspicion, a key factor in the decision of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to normalize relations with Israel in 2020, and of Saudi Arabia to consider such a move.
Iran has provided financial and other support over the years to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which led the Oct. 7 attack into Israel that triggered the Gaza war, and the smaller but more radical Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which took part in it. But there is no evidence that Iran was directly involved in the attack.
Since the start of the war, Iran's leaders have expressed solidarity with the Palestinians. Their allies in the region have gone much further.
Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, Iran's most militarily advanced proxy, has waged a low-intensity conflict with Israel since the start of the Gaza war. The two sides have traded strikes on a near-daily basis along the Israel-Lebanon border, forcing tens of thousands of people on both sides to flee.
So far, however, the conflict has not boiled over into a full-blown war that would be disastrous for both countries.
Iran-backed militias in Syria and Iraq launched repeated attacks on U.S. bases in the opening months of the war but pulled back after U.S. retaliatory strikes for a drone attack that killed three American soldiers in January.
Yemen's Houthi rebels, another ally of Iran, have repeatedly targeted international shipping in what they portray as a blockade of Israel. Those strikes, which often target ships with no apparent links to Israel, have also drawn U.S.-led retaliation.
Iran's influence extends beyond the Middle East and its rivalry with Israel.
Israel and Western countries have long suspected Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons in the guise of a peaceful atomic program in what they see as a threat to non-proliferation everywhere.
Then-President Donald Trump's withdrawal from a landmark nuclear pact between Iran and world powers in 2018, and his imposition of crushing sanctions, led Iran to gradually abandon all the limits placed on its program by the deal.
These days, Iran is enriching uranium to up to 60% purity — near weapons-grade levels of 90%. Surveillance cameras installed by the U.N. nuclear agency have been disrupted, and Iran has barred some of the agency's most experienced inspectors. Iran has always insisted its nuclear program is for purely peaceful purposes, but the United States and others believe it had an active nuclear weapons program until 2003.
Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear-armed power in the Middle East but has never acknowledged having such weapons.
Iran has also emerged as a key ally of Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, and is widely accused of supplying exploding drones that have wreaked havoc on Ukraine's cities. Raisi himself denied the allegations last fall in an interview with The Associated Press, saying Iran had not supplied such weapons since the outbreak of hostilities in February 2022.
Iranian officials have made contradictory comments about the drones, while U.S. and European officials say the sheer number being used in the war in Ukraine shows that the flow of such weapons has intensified since the war began.
In this photo provided by Moj News Agency, rescue teams' vehicles are seen near the site of the incident of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Varzaghan in northwestern Iran, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A helicopter carrying President Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray. (Azin Haghighi/Moj News Agency via AP)
An Iranian woman prays for President Ebrahim Raisi in a ceremony at Vali-e-Asr square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A helicopter carrying President Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
People pray for President Ebrahim Raisi in a ceremony at Vali-e-Asr square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A helicopter carrying President Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
FILE - People gather around a component from an intercepted ballistic missile that fell near the Dead Sea in Israel, Saturday, April 20, 2024. The apparent crash of a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other top officials is likely to reverberate across the Middle East. Tensions have soared since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, and Israel and Iran directly traded fire for the first time ever in April. (AP Photo/Itamar Grinberg, File)
FILE - Iranian worshippers chant slogans during an anti-Israeli gathering after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 19, 2024. The apparent crash of a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other top officials is likely to reverberate across the Middle East. Tensions have soared since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, and Israel and Iran directly traded fire for the first time ever in April. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
