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

The Last Watchdog

Phishing scams, malware, ransomware and data breaches are just some of the examples of cyberthreats that can devastate business operations and the protection of consumer information. Here are five notable historical events that influenced cybersecurity assessment and transformed it into what it is today: The Battle of Midway (1942).

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Everything about XDR is around Correlations, not Hype

CyberSecurity Insiders

It is not enough to say that you have a big data platform that you can dump things into and search; you need actionable detections that lead to meaningful correlations. Data Normalization – To get full visibility, the first thing you need to consider is the data itself.

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Healthcare Cyberattacks Lead to Increased Mortality, Lower Patient Care: Ponemon Study

eSecurity Planet

Ponemon chairman and founder Larry Ponemon said in a statement that “Most of the IT and security professionals regard their organizations as vulnerable to these attacks,” and that growing adoption of technologies such as cloud, mobile , big data , and the Internet of Things (IoT) are adding to that risk.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

Many organizations, for instance, continue to rely heavily on legacy firewalls and WAFs, which, of course, is precisely where Capital One went wrong. Salt Security is taking a big data and automation approach to this monumental challenge, Isbitski told me. Traditional approaches just aren’t working or can’t scale.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

One of the promising cybersecurity trends that I’ve been keeping an eye on is this: SOAR continues to steadily mature. Security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR, is a fledgling security technology stack that first entered the cybersecurity lexicon about six years ago. But that hasn’t been enough.

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MY TAKE: Six-figure GDPR privacy fines reinforce business case for advanced SIEM, UEBA tools

The Last Watchdog

Fortunately, there is a cottage industry of cybersecurity vendors , Exabeam among them, engaged in proactively advancing ways for SOC analysts to extract more timely and actionable threat intelligence from their security information and event management ( SIEM ) and user and entity behavior ( UEBA ) systems. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019.

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

CyberSecurity Insiders

billion of total cybersecurity spending and is expected to increase to $6.4 This is easy to understand as SIEM has evolved into the data store for cybersecurity data which has been exploding as the volume of data and number of alerts is growing exponentially. Today, SIEM accounts for approximately $4.4

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