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Play ransomware attack on Xplain exposed 65,000 files containing data relevant to the Swiss Federal Administration.

Security Affairs

Government experts discovered sensitive information, including personal data, technical information, classified details, and passwords, in approximately half of the Federal Administration’s files (5,182). “On August, the Government launched an administrative investigation into the data breach. .”

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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

The Last Watchdog

“The trend that we’re seeing is that more than 30 percent of the content flowing into data lakes is from untrusted sources,” he says. “It’s It’s documents, PDFs, CSV files, Excel files, images, lots of unstructured data; we track 150 different file types. This is the dark side of digital transformation.

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The Evolution of SIEM: Where It’s Been and Where It is Going

CyberSecurity Insiders

But on-premises processing power against “unstructureddata was still quite slow, so it could take eons to query your essentially raw data and get any semblance of an answer about the root cause of an alert, security incident, or otherwise. Phase 3: SIEM met UEBA, aka anomaly detection.

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Security Data Lakes Emerge to Address SIEM Limitations

eSecurity Planet

What is a Security Data Lake? The typical data lake serves a repository for an organization and holds unstructured data regarding company products, financial data, customer data, supplier data, and marketing information. Security Data Lake Vendors.

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DCAP Systems: Protecting Your Data with Advanced Technology

SecureWorld News

With the increase in the complexity of IT infrastructures and the various ways of storing data, safeguarding against data leaks has become more resource-intensive. Data access control raises many questions not only among users but sometimes also among security professionals. Who is the protentional customer of such solutions?

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Cooking Intelligent Detections from Threat Intelligence (Part 6)

Anton on Security

When working on creating new detections, a few things stand out as desirable, and those translate as flags for good intel from the DE perspective: (More) Structured Data: Data exchange must be Repeatable , Standardized , Accessible and Understandable.

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Publicly available Evil_MinIO exploit used in attacks on MinIO Storage Systems

Security Affairs

Object Storage is a data storage architecture for storing unstructured data into units called “objects” and storing them in a structurally flat data environment. The leading providers of such services are AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.