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Importance of having a Threat Intelligence Platform

CyberSecurity Insiders

However, as manual track down of threats is impossible, due to sheer volumes of data, analysts use an automated form of software that assists them in collecting, analyzing and sharing information with the teams to ensure identity and prevention of harm from attacks.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

military officials hired data analysts to crack the Japanese secret code known as JN-25. After analysts cracked the code, Commander Joseph Rochefort could relay the Japanese Navy’s future plans to Admiral Chester Nimitz. After the devastating blow of Pearl Harbor, U.S.

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Applying Heuristics in Cybersecurity

Approachable Cyber Threats

Data analysts aren’t immune to the ill effects of the recognition heuristic either. Availability bias can impact data analysis just as much as the alternative informal mental meanderings that we use most of the time. In many cases in cybersecurity, our indicators of compromise and other signals shift.